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To: allendale
Putin has created a strategic disaster for Russia. With this catastrophic invasion, he has shown the world, especially China, that Russia’s conventional military is not the juggernaut the world once feared.

Accepted military doctrine says that an attacker should have a 3-1 advantage over a defending force.

The Ukrainians had a 3-1 advantage over the attacking Russians & the Luhansk/Donetsk militias.

I'd say that the Western militaries have some doctrinal revisions to attend to.

16 posted on 08/23/2022 7:25:12 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Given the new technologies , almost all military doctrines and tactics need to be questioned and revised. Armored fighting vehicles and naval surface combatants are now largely obsolete. Some hard lessons were appreciated by some who carefully observed the Ukraine war and the Azerbagani-Armenian conflict. If history is a guide, very much doubt the current crop of battleship admirals and cavalry generals patrolling the halls of the Pentagon have taken notice.


24 posted on 08/23/2022 7:31:17 AM PDT by allendale
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To: kiryandil
I'd say that the Western militaries have some doctrinal revisions to attend to.

No kidding! The Russians & their allies are apparently firing 60,000 artillery rounds all day, every day, without pause.

Analysts are tearing themselves away from abstruse models of SEAD ops. Instead they're wondering how the Russians got to fight this war with an infinite ammo cheat.

27 posted on 08/23/2022 7:33:33 AM PDT by agere_contra
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