The Russians are violating all small unit level tactics rules. I’m talking basic soldiering concepts one learns in basic combat training.
They apparently suck at security, too.
My fears of the costs of a US-Russian conflict are becoming less scary each day.
They can and do have the weapons tech, but if they’re tactical level leaders are incompetent, it doesn’t matter.
“The Russians are violating all small unit level tactics rules. I’m talking basic soldiering concepts one learns in basic combat training.”
The Ukrainians are going to have several victories, however I personally think the final result will be a pyrrhic one. When we see the Russians being blooded because of old outdated war tactics it provides some cheer, but meanwhile their country is being bombed into the stone age.
The more Putin gets angry about the loses the more pain he will soon inflict on the infrastructure. He already is launching the largest air assault of the war regardless of civilian casualties.
Like I said, I've never grabbed a pack, helmet, and rifle and gone out on patrol... But I have read a fair amount about how we conducted operations in Iraq in hostile territory. That information is openly available. What worked, what didn't, how things changed and evolved over time as both sides learned. Don't the Russians have an ops manual or at least a plan/guidance for going into hostile territory outlining SOPs???
Between stalled armor columns on exposed roadways telling anyone that passes by they are out of fuel, lack of recon, abandon equipment, tentative pace of advance... Either the Red Army has become incompetent to a shocking degree or Ukraine is doing a good job of publicizing/spinning a few isolated incidents or outright fabricating them.
Maybe this is why Putin was doing so much seemingly un-necessary nuclear saber-rattling. Maybe he knew his forces are eff'd up and the Ukraine campaign was going to be an embarrassment but one he had to endure to keep Ukraine out of NATO. However, fearing western leaders would look at the ineptitude of the Red Army and think "Why shouldn't we head east?" he voiced his nuclear deterrent to keep the western armies from rolling up to his doorstep.
I don't know, the whole thing seems odd, messy, and generally screwed up. You'd think with so many cell phones, and so much connectivity we'd be able to get a decent cumulative idea - lots of BS mixed in - but enough info to separate it. Instead we're getting disjoint, contradictory, and confusing, baffling reports of tactics and strategy that seemingly make no sense.