Once could say it is like punching an arm into the ocean...quickly the whole arm gets enveloped. These extremely long exterior lines....static lines at that....are completely open to ambush and attack. Additionally, the failure to coordinate a combined arms approach has added to it. In many ways, this is almost like Operation Barbarossa in reverse. The milestones have all been missed. At some point, the enemy is able to regroup and counterattack.
Right. Had to have been Putin meddling in the operational planning, because I can’t believe any professional officer would have come up with something like this
plan. With numbers this small, you invade like we did in 2003. A few, powerful, mutually supporting thrust on a relatively narrow axis of advance. This is the exact opposite.