RE: Russia and Ukraine
November 23, 2022 at 11:24 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2022 at 11:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Because the russian infantry is a bunch of kids scared shitless and convicts looking for their first opportunity to run. I doubt their presence has any effect whatsoever - and, fwiw, the vast majority of russian shit blowing up theater isn't mbts, it's ifvs. They're doing even worse than the turret toss champs.
This is an artillery and drone war. Russia is using theirs in so-called active defense to level schools and maternity wards. Ukraine is using theirs as a substitute for air-power so they can engage in combined arms maneuver warfare. Active defense will not work against ca, ca was explicitly designed to defeat it. The types of tanks being used are immaterial to that. That's why ukraine has been doing thunder run shit - not because that's the bold move that russia could never predict - but because it's the textbook way to defeat active defense and even though the russians know that..there's nothing they can do about it. That's why they're digging trenches and trying to bog the whole thing down. Russian forces in a moving fight have 25km or less runway before it's lights out.
When you place it in that context, the lack of adequate supporting boots on the ground may even be rationalizable - I hesitate to say rational, as the rational course of action would be a full retreat, a buildup of forces, and a re-invasion. Or..at least...attacking targets with military value, so that they can trade the russian soldier's apparently worthless life more effectively.
This is an artillery and drone war. Russia is using theirs in so-called active defense to level schools and maternity wards. Ukraine is using theirs as a substitute for air-power so they can engage in combined arms maneuver warfare. Active defense will not work against ca, ca was explicitly designed to defeat it. The types of tanks being used are immaterial to that. That's why ukraine has been doing thunder run shit - not because that's the bold move that russia could never predict - but because it's the textbook way to defeat active defense and even though the russians know that..there's nothing they can do about it. That's why they're digging trenches and trying to bog the whole thing down. Russian forces in a moving fight have 25km or less runway before it's lights out.
When you place it in that context, the lack of adequate supporting boots on the ground may even be rationalizable - I hesitate to say rational, as the rational course of action would be a full retreat, a buildup of forces, and a re-invasion. Or..at least...attacking targets with military value, so that they can trade the russian soldier's apparently worthless life more effectively.
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