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The US is growing increasingly frustrated with Ukraine's tactics. It could put the counteroffensive in jeopardy.

‘MILITARY MALPRACTICE’: Armchair generals in and out of government should stop “chirping from the sidelines” and let Ukraine fight the Russian invaders in the way they think best, says the four-star Army general who advocated the 2007 troop surge credited with turning the tide of the battle in Iraq. In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, retired Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff, calls the frustration by some U.S. military officers over the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive “alarming.”

“U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol. Such advice is military malpractice,” writes Keane, who is chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for the Study of War. “No one in the American military today has designed large-scale mechanized operations against a serious and capable enemy that is employing a comprehensive defense. The last time was the Metz campaign in France in 1944, led by Gen. George S. Patton.”

“American officers appear to have unrealistic expectations of what a single counteroffensive operation can achieve,” he says. “America should stop the criticism about what Ukraine is doing and focus instead on helping Ukraine achieve our common aims as rapidly as possible. That would be sound strategy.”

‘STRETCH, STARVE, AND STRIKE’: Keane says Ukraine is wisely employing a strategy dubbed “stretch, starve, and strike” by Britain’s top military officer, Adm. Tony Radakin, chief of the U.K. defense staff.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-second-guessing-of-ukraines-counteroffensive-strategy-is-military-malpractice-says-architect-of-2007-iraq-surge

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“U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol. Such advice is military malpractice,” writes Keane, who is chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for the Study of War.”

I didn’t realize General Jack Keane had been purchased by the Kagan-Nudelman (Nuland) lobby

[Sunsong]

Keanne offers practical, realistic advice

As long as putin/russia are fighting *in* Ukraine they are losing

[fireman15]

writes Keane, who is chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for the Study of War.

The Institute for the Study of War is funded almost exclusively by the same defense contractors who are the recipients of the endless $Billions of taxpayer dollars that are being spent on this boondoggle. Their interests have nothing in common with the interests of the Ukrainian people and everything to do with their own profit.