Posted on 05/18/2022 7:02:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It must be good times for U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Mark Milley.
Just as Jimmy Carter breathes a sigh of relief that he's no longer America's worst president, Milley, who commanded the disastrous U.S. Afghanistan pullout, is no longer the world's worst general.
That 'honor' now goes to Vlad Putin, who, according to The Guardian, citing U.S. intelligence sources, is the "general" who directly, specifically, brought Russia its biggest military failure in its "special operation" against Ukraine. He was out there playing "colonel," the report said.
It was ugly.
According to the New York Times:
On May 11, the Russian command reportedly sent about 550 troops of the 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 41st Combined Arms Army to cross the Donets River at Bilohorivka, in the eastern Luhansk region, in a bid to encircle Ukrainian forces near Rubizhne.
Satellite images reveal that Ukrainian artillery destroyed several Russian pontoon bridges and laid waste to a tight concentration of Russian troops and equipment around the river.
The Institute for the Study of War, citing analyses based on the publicly available imagery, indicated that there could have been as many as 485 Russian soldiers killed or wounded and more than 80 pieces of equipment destroyed.
The Times points out that the military error, which cost Russia hundreds of lives and a 73-piece loss of equipment at one pop, was very obvious to Russia's military bloggers, who are a pro-Russia bunch.
They are now having misgivings about the "generals" at the top who engineered the catastrophe:
“I’ve been keeping quiet for a long time,” Yuri Podolyaka, a war blogger with 2.1 million followers on Telegram, said in a video posted on Friday, saying that he had avoided criticizing the Russian military until now.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
# Vladimir Putin has become so personally involved in the Ukraine war that he is making operational and tactical decisions “at the level of a colonel or brigadier”, according to western military sources.
That was LBJ during Vietnam.
The tanks bunched and the rest followed.
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The destroyed vehicles are scattered all through the forest on the Orc side. Destroyed where they parked. Only bunching seems to be a few vehicles on the UA side and up the slope on the Orc side.
There are lots of after action UAV shots showing the destruction
Russia is still fighting the last war.
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that would be WWI, with some WWII bits with modern kinks. Primarily using artillery with unlimited shells to kill and flatten everything that is a target, could be target, or even has a hint of a fighting position. If its over 2 feet tall, its a target.
Victory will go to the side with the most staying power
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Victory goes to the side with the best logistics, normally.
Politics and war do not mix - what we should have learned from Afghan.
BMP-1s are common in the Orc army, despite various charts that say otherwise - likely those same charts show the Orcs have 10,000 tanks as well, when they only have ~2,500 working tanks (minus some 600 lost).
Everything in the RGF seems to have changed names, make ups, military numbers, unit compositions etc in the past 20 years. This makes it near impossible to say with any surety what is what or who they are. These constant changes have made many officers unsure how many men and units they actually have. There is the RGF on paper, and the RGF in reality; “never the twain shall meet” - RK.
Radio/phone intercepts which IDs the unit seems to be the only accurate method.
The UA may have crossed the S. Donets River around Malynivka, east of Kharkiv in two places.
Probably much like the way Jimmy Carter feels now that PINO Joe is in the White House.
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