Posted on 02/05/2022 6:47:26 AM PST by Kaslin
Commentators have assumed that the Ukraine stands little chance of fending off an overwhelming onslaught from Russia because of Russia’s vastly superior troop and weapons strength. But history proves an inferior force dedicated to unconventional warfare can so damage a superior one as to compel its withdrawal or cause its defeat. The American Revolution proved that point in the Eighteenth Century. Consider Russia’s horrendous losses in Afghanistan before it was forced to withdraw. We ourselves experienced a comparable disaster in Vietnam and many would argue in Afghanistan. Based on those and other examples, the Ukrainians’ fate is indeed very much to be decided by their will to fight and by their methods. If they are wise, they will follow Winston Churchill and discover that clandestine “ungentlemanly warfare,” replete with the element of surprise, can indeed hasten the destruction of an enemy despite that opponent’s technological and numerical superiority.
In Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Giles Milton records the history of clandestine operations employed in the service of Great Britain by various people trained in the dark arts of unconventional warfare. Those brave mavericks were dispatched by secret order of Prime Minister Churchill to perform dangerous missions of sabotage against Nazi Germany throughout the second World War. Those operations repeatedly confounded Nazi plans to achieve military objectives, crippling supply chains; destroying fuel depots and power plants; and misdirecting command, control and communications. The Ukrainians would do well to study Churchill’s “ungentlemanly warfare” very carefully and prepare to employ like methods in anticipation of a Russian invasion.
Indeed, with appropriate U.S. backing, the Ukrainians could take full advantage of Russia’s profound weaknesses. Despite news suggesting the contrary, Russia’s massing of troops, equipment and supplies along the Ukrainian border reveals significant vulnerabilities that can now be exploited. Through means of espionage and infiltration, Ukrainian operatives and commandos can take steps that, if timed properly, will impede a Russian advance. They can spike Russian fuel supplies; remove key components from Russian tanks, aircraft, and armored personnel carriers; and contaminate food and water stockpiles necessary to sustain Russian forces. The mass deployment of Russian forces immediately across the Ukrainian border puts them all within easy reach of Ukrainian operatives and commandos. Cyber warfare can also be staged presently at key points along the Ukrainian border to enable--simultaneous with the start of Russian offensive operations--signal jamming; electromagnetic spectrum operations to destroy command, control, and communications capabilities; rapid deployment of system destructive viruses; and rapid deployment of viruses designed to give command instructions that redirect Russian forces or cause them to enter staged Ukrainian kill zones. In this way, a far inferior force can magnify its impact to rebuff or defeat a vastly superior force.
Russia maintains a big and cumbersome military machine that suffers from the weakness of centralized command and control that, if broken, leaves officers in the field panic stricken with little assurance that if they act without authorization they will not end up suffering severe punishment. Russian rank and file soldiers fear their superiors, and they fear the intervention of political commissars. They proceed in war out of fear and paranoia, far more so than patriotic zeal. By contrast, Ukrainian soldiers will be fighting for their homelands, for their literal homes, and for their families. Their incentive to defeat the invaders to protect their homes and families are far greater than the Russian soldier’s incentive to fight. The Russian soldier is miles from home, is living uncomfortably in the field in the dead of winter, and is under the oppressive command of a military directed strictly from the top down. Although there are Russians from the region among those massed at the border, the typical Russian soldier has little personal interest in or familiarity with the Ukraine and all or almost all are commanded by officers who are politically preferred Russians who are not originally from the Ukraine or Crimea.
If Russian forces enter Ukrainian territory and occupy it, unconventional techniques, akin to the highly successful counterinsurgency measures employed by the French Resistance in World War II, will again be essential in crippling Russian occupying forces.
In short, if the Ukrainian people have the will to fight, they can retain or regain control of their country, even against one of the most oppressive and tyrannical regimes in the world. Like in Afghanistan, if Russia becomes bogged down in the Ukraine with tremendous loss of life and destruction of its military hardware (if the Ukraine becomes a kill zone for Russia’s occupying forces), Russia may well perceive the advantage of colonization outweighed by the costs. The Ukraine can become another Afghanistan for Russia, depending on the will of the Ukrainian people to be independent.
The United States should make clear to the Ukrainians, complemented by immediate action, that America will back Ukrainian independence and opposition to Russian aggression by supplying the Ukraine with the training and means necessary to engage in unconventional (or, in Churchill’s words, “ungentlemanly”) warfare against Russian aggressors and occupiers—regardless of the length of Russian occupation. While it is in our strategic interest that Russia not regain control over the former Soviet satellite states, we serve that interest not only by arming the Ukrainians but also by supporting Ukrainian resistance to any Russian occupation. We need that far-thinking at the State Department, among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and at the National Security Council.
Let’s see, incredibly tragic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Libyan slave markets, Mexico/US border is wide open. China runs the Panama Canal and nearly 100% of our outsourced manufacturing....hmmm ...got inflation and less oil?
America needs to fix the homeless, the mentally ill, the drug sieve killing so many( from China), the shoddy edcuation, the terrifying medical mandates, and all the divisiveness.
appears Ukraine is a non starter but will it stop a rogue government? Will anyone be as brave as the Canadians?
And here we are day 381 of the Biden criminal occupation where absolutely nothing is said or done about the USA being invaded daily by foreign forces at the southern border. Instead let’s worry about a country 5000 miles away, let’s get into a war with a superpower armed with 4,000 nuclear weapons so a brain dead putz can look like a tough guy.
Someone needs to convey that message to the GOP
"Corn Popov was a bad dude..."
Beware of the something for nothing sales pitch. This is an exhortation that diplomacy isn’t needed; the US can bleed the Russians by letting Ukrainian partisans do the fighting while our military contractors get rich supplying an unlimited amount of materiale to a hyper-corrupt regime, paid for with bankrupt America’s borrowed dollars. Woo hoo, kickbacks and political contributions. Too bad Russia would react to this strategy by attacking the supply routes and using its own irregular forces from the Donbas region and mercenaries to turn it all into a bloody civil war, something well known in Ukrainian and Russian history.
The only workable solution to people who refuse to be subjugated is the Final Solution. Alexander the Great did it to Thebes, the Romans did it to Carthage, the Mongols did it everywhere they went, and the Palestinians have promised to do it in Israel. When the truth is completely regulated and people can be made to believe anything, it becomes a viable option. Our media will enable the next genocide.
I’m convinced the regime is doing this to suck the air out of the southern border disaster story. The anti-freedom forces are hoping a little smoke and friction will take your attention off trucker convoys and the turmoil they’ve created. We’re throwing thousands out of the military. I can imagine the morale of incredibly low in the military.
I bought a geiger counter on Amazon last week last week. No reason exactly, just one of those things that might come in handy one day...
We ourselves experienced a comparable disaster in Vietnam ...
The North was preparing to negotiate a truce, but decided to hold on after Jane Fonda, John Kerry and the rest of that group persuaded them to hold-on while they continued to stoke the anti-war movement back in the US.
http://www.viet-myths.net/buitin.htm
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-06-op-32060-story.html
What do you mean by “defeating” russia. Throwing them out of crimea which houses their largest naval fleet? The crimea that has belonged to russia since catherine the great? Carrying out raids in donbass? The russkies are not real big on turning the other cheek. Anyone training , equiping and launching unconventional raids on russian territory can expect ungentlemanly attacks in kind. Read some history. The russians in war are as brutal as apaches , and willing to absorb casualty rates that we can’t imagine. Military adventures against russia are guaranteed to end in tears.
This ^^^^^. Also the question will the Ukrainian people fight to keep kleptocrats in power.
The Winter War between The Soviet Union and Finland 1939-1940:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcJbJUDVAPM
One of the most effective Finnish tactics employed Suomi submachine guns (think tommy gun). Intelligence told Finnish commanders when and where the USSR would attack. Finland sent troops to lie under the snow the night before. In the middle of the attacking USSR troops the Fins would rise out of the snow and open fire. It was a target rich environment which yielded thousands of Soviet deaths.
Russia will go thru them and our “10” guys there like ‘crap thru a goose’. Brandon should STFU and focus on our on borders, the damn globalist traitor.
Exactly.. look what happened in Afghanistan to not only the Russians, but us and the UK. Bog the invaders down with unconventional tactics and they’ll start breaking down.
Russia/Ukraine is a distraction. Watch China.
Neocons sitting in their comfortable offices in NY or DC, encouraging and supplying christian slavs in Eastern Europe to shed each-others blood in a never-ending war
Satanic much?
Good point. I agree
🇺🇸 (Not directed at you kiryandil)
To everyone —
How do you think the highly corrupted manchurian type Clinton/Obama “Corn Popov” puppet continuum continues to hold control of the White Hut...
And by the way, for all those FR’s who somehow walk around with toilet bowls over their heads, and are therefore oblivious to Moscow/CIS having at times since Clinton, religiously rotated roughly between 500-600 nukes (right up to, or near many times), the Clinton signed 12nm territorial boundary off of both our East and West coastlines, and between 48, and up to as many as 480 more (known) to an approx 18 minute flight time of many US targets -
These Russian systems aren’t defensive THAAD and AEGIS Ashore type systems, placed by Bush 43 or Trump 45 into Poland/Romania/Norwegian EUCOM AOR’s (hundreds of miles from Moscow).
Oh, and by the way, Bush 43 and Trump 45 placed THAAD and Aegis Ashore IN RESPONSE to CIS Moscow moving hundreds of 3gen and 4gen nukes, thousands of low yield nuclear artillery shells, and multiple chem units back into Kaliningrad and back into Serbia (not far south of the Hungarian border.
The idea that CIS military HQ in Moscow hasn’t done squat, or had, or maintained strategic and conventional WMD’s near the US since “Bay of Pigs” is as willfully blind and dumb as any full-on leftard on the planet.
Moscow has also maintained rotations of roughly a brigade, (and up to three brigades) of highly trained Spetsnaz and other GRU and FSB assets in Nicaragua and Cuba to “guard” (what is not so quietly known to be), some of Moscows most important SIGINT and ELINT sites (structurally completed under Clinton), and notably as well as their constant presence (to assist other NGO’s in anti-American activity) in Mexico, DR, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, now Panama - often back-filled from their Naval and Air bases/stations in Venezuela.
I don't doubt it one bit.
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