Stalemate. It's just like World War I.
Posted on 10/03/2023 4:51:05 PM PDT by Mariner
Across desolate fields and shattered villages, Ukraine’s counteroffensive is confronting Russian minefields and Russian soldiers dug into elaborate trench networks.
But one unusually daunting obstacle to Ukrainian troops is a tactic adopted by Russian forces: ceding ground and then striking back.
Rather than holding a line of trenches at all costs in the face of Ukraine’s assault, security experts say, Russian commanders have employed a long-standing military tactic known as “elastic defense.”
To execute the tactic, Russian forces pull back to a second line of positions, encouraging Ukrainian troops to advance, and then strike back when the opposing forces are vulnerable — either while moving across open ground or as they arrive at the recently abandoned Russian positions.
The goal is to prevent Ukrainian troops from actually securing a position and using it as a base for further advances. That is what Ukraine was able to do successfully in the village of Robotyne in the south, its biggest breakthrough in recent weeks.
“The defender gives ground while inflicting as heavy casualties as they can on the attackers with a view to being able to set the attackers up for a decisive counterattack,” said Ben Barry, a senior fellow for land war studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British research group.
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Ukraine will not retrieve those lost lands.
So the Russians are retreating. Good news.
You put your right foot in you put your right foot out...
“To execute the tactic, Russian forces pull back to a second line of positions, encouraging Ukrainian troops to advance, and then strike back when the opposing forces are vulnerable — either while moving across open ground or as they arrive at the recently abandoned Russian positions.”
One would think that Ukraine would be wise to that after several months. But given that their army is now composed of Middle School kids and Geriatrics, I can see why this strategy continues to work.
You have zero comprehension.
Stalemate. It's just like World War I.
Dress it up however you want, the Orc army is in retreat.
That’s not what they said.
The Germans were famous for this during the Normandy campaign. They would fall back to a secondary position and have their old positions pre-registered for artillery and heavy machine guns.
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The Russian objective is to destroy the Ukrainian military, not gain territory. It is a war of attrition. Ukraine can’t win this kind of war.
That tactic was a plot device in the movie 1917.
“The Russian objective is to destroy the Ukrainian military, not gain territory. It is a war of attrition. Ukraine can’t win this kind of war.”
I don’t think the Russians expected that they’d also empty the Arsenals of the NATO countries, but a number of them are already admitting that they’re wiped out.
Ukraine will soon conscript their Youth to fight Russians.
Eventually they will run out of warm Male bodies.
Then they will come for Zelensky.
Not quite a stalemate. Russia has more territory than it had before February 2022. And the four regions of the Donbas have had phony elections and been incorporated into Russia, just like Crimea.
The Russians made them pay for Robotino numerous times using these tactics.
The reason the Ukrainians keep doing this is because they can claim to be “gaining territory” and so get a PR win, even at the cost of colossal losses.
“It’s a trap!”
Question; if the pubs regain power and close the border, how many fighting age illegals wod go fight for Ukraine in exchange fir families being given papers to stay here and death benefits? Enough for Enough divisions to f*ck up Russia’s attrition advantage?
Getting closer to The Last Ukrainian Alive!
What hole have you been hiding in? Russian state TV is pushing for a new empire with the western border in Berlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqENT7ey0_M
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