Posted on 02/25/2025 8:24:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A Special Forces group used them early in the Afghan operation. Partly to fit in with the Afghans they were working with, partly to cover the roadless terrain they were moving in.
Good. Horses make an easy target and can be used for food.
LOL !
NATO’s finest defeated by shovels, horses, and chips from old washing machines.
It’s like the new 5 axis CNC machines Russia is now producing. People rag on the “old” interface etc.
But if they can produce lots of these machines, they can produce high volumes of military parts. Meanwhile in the West we get the story about our stuff is so much better, but can’t seem to produce high volume.
https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1894650977354924328
Ukraine is notoriously flat.
Regards,
Cossacks and Kazakhs are two entirely separate ethnicities.
Regards,
Putin's Russia is, indeed, the greatest military threat that Europe has faced since the end of WWII.
The Russian invasion and annexation of vast swaths of peaceful Ukraine has resulted in the loss of more innocent civilian lives than any other conflict in Europe since the closing days of WWII.
By any metric - tonnage of bombs dropped by the Russian invaders, number of shopping centers and kindergartens destroyed by the Russian invaders, etc. - Putin's invasion forces represent the greatest "hot" military conflict in Europe since 1945.
Referring to the English Channel or the Pyrenees is a "Strawman Fallacy." Putin's Russia doesn't have to bomb Coventry to nonetheless constitute the biggest threat to European stability since the Cold War.
Regards,
“We also had mounted Air Force Security Police patrols at Clark AB in the Philippines.”
I had a buddy who was there and did that in the mid 80s. He told me that the biggest security issue was guarding the refuse dump from local scroungers.
It’s not well know, but the vast majority of troop and equipment supplies in WWII were done by horse drawn means
“During WW II, the US and British used mules and horses in the China, India Burma theater of war and also in Italy.”
They needed them to pull the trucks out of the mud...
IR heat signature is significant.
If a group is found by drone they are excellent targets for artillery or mortars.
It’s easier to interdict them through old fashioned means than armored vehicles.
There are reasons armies stopped using horses.
By certain armies that had no choice.
The Germans lacked trucks and fuel. The Russians had fewer than they would like, sometimes.
Overhead drones seek and destroy vehicles plus soldiers.....
between the horses and the stolen dishwasher chips, its crazy how Russia could just invade and take over the whole of Europe....
When Hitler invaded Russia he sent 3200 tanks, and 600,000 horses, more than Napoleon's Grand Armee.
I recall a story from D-Day +1. An American officer was watching supplies being unloaded off of the Normandy coast while standing with a captured German officer, the German officer said “where are your horses”? At that moment, the American officer knew we would win the war.
That is true, however in this case that does not appear to be the case.
What this actually indicates to the status of Russian military is not clear, could be a couple of soldiers who found horses and were having fun.
What is clear is that the Russian military is using vast numbers of civilian vehicles, not just for logistics, but in actual assaults.
Again what that means is not clear, but doesn’t have a good look
“It’s good propaganda though for the zeepers.
Russia’s got nothing left...soon they’ll be riding sheep! :)
The guy who posted this article isn’t a zeeper, he posts lots of great articles :)
This one just happens to be fodder for zeepers.
And their insanity.
Fodder can still be the truth
“ Horse traffic is relatively difficult to target either drone strikes and a soldier on a horse is about as low a value target as you can get.”
Will have to disagree, plenty of videos of drones dropping grenades on individual soldiers or even FPV drones attacking single soldiers
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