Posted on 04/19/2022 2:13:00 AM PDT by GonzoII
Ukraine’s success illuminates a strategy that has allowed a smaller state to—so far—outlast a larger and much more powerful one. Battles reveal more than they decide. Battles in which the outcome is truly up for grabs are rare, and battles that prove decisive in achieving a political goal are rarer still. Instead, battles demonstrate how effectively combatants planned, prepared, and executed before the fighting began. The result of a battle exposes not only how well matched the sides are but also how the war might unfold in the future. In that sense, the outcome of the Battle of Kyiv was never in doubt. Russia’s and Ukraine’s preparations for the fight essentially preordained the result. But the Battle of Kyiv has revealed a great deal about why Ukraine has done so much better in the war than many analysts predicted. How and why Ukrainian forces outperformed expectations is perhaps the most important story of this war. A close look at Ukraine’s successes illuminates a strategy that has allowed a smaller state to—so far—outlast a larger and much more powerful one. Call it the “Ukrainian way of war.”The Ukrainian way of war is a coherent, intelligent, and well-conceived strategy to fight the Russians, one well calibrated to take advantage of specific Russian weaknesses. It has allowed the Ukrainians to maintain mobility, helped force the Russians into static positions for long periods by fouling up their logistics, opened up the Russians to high losses from attrition, and, in the Battle of Kyiv, led to a victory that has completely recast the political endgame of the Russian invasion. The original maximalist Russian attempt to seize all of Ukraine has been drastically scaled back to a far more limited effort aimed at seizing territory in the east and south of the country....
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Hey....we all have our story deadlines. Give the guy a break....
Starts out with a lie. There was no battle of Kyiv. LOL
I’m hoping for Ukrainians, but not convinced they are winning.
Lol, and the Moscva is still floating, okay.
Kiev was a feint in force to split Ukraine forces away from the main assault in the east
Did I say the Moscva is not sunk, or that Ukraine didn’t attack it? It is you using the hyperbole. I just stated a fact.
Kyiv was an attack. Have not seen one military analyst that has called it a feint.
No. Ukraine is not winning. Other than that we know nothing of the conflict other than there is one. No source of information is reliable. Almost all are conjecture or prpaganda. The few rest cannot be descried.
The Ukraine is not winning.
They are making Russia pay a steep price for doing it,
but Russia is achieving its true goals.
The one goal they didn’t achieve was regime change,
but then this isn’t over yet.
The effort in the east was the attack. The assault in the north was as you said but the effort was to split the defense. The troops assigned were apparently second or third rate and not the best.
That’s my thought as well. I don’t think Russia wanted to fight a gorilla war in Kiev. I think they wanted to divide Ukrainian forces and inflict as many casualties as possible on the defenders. It’s hard to judge the conflict with the one sided coverage we get. I guess we will know more in the next week or two.
Because their unicorns are burying the invaders in Skittles?
The coverage is indeed hard to follow. There is in fact a lot of pure propaganda and it is seems necessary to get more than report
I don’t watch any American news. I have been watching You Tube Videos presented by what seem to be independent French and German sources.
I have about three sources I watch every day with 10 minutes or so each. It’s the best I can do
Russian airborne forces were used to take Hostomel Airport north of Kyiv and were chewed up. Security analyst Andrew McGregor described the battle as "Russian Airborne Disaster". These are some of Russia's best troops.
I know what your are saying but believe the best troops in the Russian order of battle are in the east.
We’ll see.
In my mind it boils down now in the east to a commanding general. His first task is to stay alive and then deploy his troops to overcome Ukranian resistance. He now knows a good deal about what he is facing and plan accordingly.
I look for the Russian General to be personally attacked and maybe put out of action or killed. I believe that the NATO aircraft monitors all Russian traffic and it is a matter of time to smoke him out. That may be a false hope based on propaganda videos I have seen.
We’ll see
I wish some one would give Ukraine a missile capable of taking out the Hermitage or other prestigious site in St Petersburg. Attack, attack, attack
” Give the guy a break”
and his regurgitation SOUNDS so AUTHORITATIVE ...
This was brought home to me VERY STRONGLY by a YouTube video showing an abandoned bivouac site that had been previously occupied by Russians. It was a pig-sty....trash and garbage strewn everywhere. I knew then that the quality of Russian troops was crappy for just the reasons given in the above quote.
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