I can’t believe people think moving equipment has to be over a bridge. Or anything else for that matter. My gosh there’s boats, helicopters, amphibian and various other means.
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Nor I. However, remember only 5-6 percent of Americans are veterans. Much fewer served in our land forces.
That said, they have no perception or any idea how efficient, massive , and equipped Ivan’s army is. The EU landscape is filled with rivers, hundreds of thousands of bridges…without huge numbers of engineering units and their pontoon bridges, an “ Army” is relegated to defensive operations only, defeat.
NATO has very little in the way of pontoon and river crossing equipment.
Today’s Nato is not the Nato of the 60’s, 70’s. Unlike Russia, the West believes their old European tactics are antiquated - they are mistaken. Vlad’s decades old doctrine of building and maintaining massive artillery, and engineering units is working in defeating Nato’s “ modern” western war doctrine, at least in the EU landscape.
Lastly, the EU is broke….and Vlad is kicking the West’s rear end in the economic theatre.