Posted on 12/17/2023 11:07:31 AM PST by Chode
How do you train an army to fight a war that is different from any you've ever experienced?
Support for Ukraine has played a vital role in shaping the progress of the war in Ukraine to date. Ukrainian efforts have heavily leveraged munitions and systems supplied by their allies - but training has also been a key area for allied support
Unlike weapon systems however, evaluating the performance of NATO's training efforts are harder to determine. Reporting tends to focus on the quantity of troops going through these programs, but less reporting focuses on whether the training properly matches the realities of the Ukrainian battlefield
To get a better understanding of NATO's efforts to train with Ukraine in the years leading up to 2022 and since the full scale invasion, as well as some of the lessons members of the alliance might be learning from the war, today I'm welcoming back retired US Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. LTG Hodges (Ret.) is a former commander of US Army Europe and engaged with Ukrainian forces extensively over his time in that role.
I'm very happy to welcome him back to the channel and want to stress that the opinions expressed in this interview are solely those of the individuals expressing them.
hard to think of anyone who has given worse advice and analysis during this war
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/21/ukraine-can-retake-crimea-within-months-if-we-let-it/
Benny will finish their training on the table in the Senate Hearing room...
i’d have stood up, turned my foot to the side and said i have to goto sickbay...
Those were ROTC students at a college in Philadelphia, they probably don’t have a sickbay.
i’d still say my ankle hurt...
At one time that might have kept them out of the draft.
LOL!!!
He stopped me right there and said, “kid, I want you to go over and sit down on that bench that says ‘Group W’”
And I walked over to the bench there, and there’s Group W is where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committin’ your special crime
There was all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly-lookin’ people on the bench there
There was mother-rapers father-stabbers father-rapers!
Father-rapers sittin’ right there on the bench next to me!
And they was mean And nasty and ugly and horrible guys sittin’ there
On the bench, and the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one the meanest
Father-raper of them all was comin’ over to me, and he was mean and
Ugly and nasty and horrible and all kinds of things, and he sat down next to Me. He said,
“Kid, what’d you get?”
I beat the draft before I enlisted in the Army.
#062
I was way, way, way lower than that and I didn’t believe in the draft then so I had to defeat them before I could enlist, once I took care of that with a permanent deferment, I enlisted.
LOL, on your own terms, good on you
I used to be a very intense person and took such issues very seriously.
from your posts, you can still be, i respect that
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