Yet somehow the Ukrainians have been unable to win the Battle of the Kherson Bridgehead. Why? Supposedly there are 25,000 poorly supplied, leaderless, demoralized troops unable to withdraw with their backs against the Dnieper river. So why hasn’t the vaunted Ukrainian offensive succeeded?
Battle is not over and they are making progress....
“So why hasn’t the vaunted Ukrainian offensive (in Kherson) succeeded?”
One of Clauswitz’s principles of war, is Economy of Force.
Try to achieve objectives at the lowest cost to your own forces.
Those trapped Russian forces, not equipped with Winter clothes, can be starved of supply and gradually stripped of their heavy weapons by HIMARS and drones. It is like shooting fish in a barrel - no need to sacrifice a lot of your own troops in a hasty frontal assault on a prepared and entrenched enemy.
When they are cold and hungry enough, they can shoot their officers and get to go home.
They aren’t going anywhere, except on foot. Why bother with them? - just keep them there while moving on to more important fronts.