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Having (from a US civilian POV) sought to comprehend Soviet (and now Russian) military capability from afar since the early 1980's, it has long been my percepti
by cagey 5y ago
Having (from a US civilian POV) sought to comprehend Soviet (and now Russian) military capability from afar since the early 1980's, it has long been my perception that (due to the political system in place there and the resultant poor economy) only 5-10% of Russian/Soviet military units nominally in existence have sufficient morale, training, and full provisioning with modern equipment to engage in successful offensive operations. In other words, that 5-10% of their units are lavished with the best people, training and weapons, and the remaining units make do with sub-par everything (at best).
Is the above an inaccurate perception?
- monocasa 5y agoBut their doctrine isn't to start with the with the well trained and equipped 5-10%, but instead a bunch of conscripts that that soak up some material, and then send in the competent soldiers.
- raducu 5y agoSurely they started with the fake special forces then, just as a prank for Ukraine? Surely the ukrainians just killed the general of those decoy/fake spetsnaz? Surely they asked for cechen, mercenary, bielorusian and even Kazhatanian troops just to join the 85% of non commited troops, because it makes perfect sense to bring troops from thousands and thousands of km instead of using your non-commited troops that you have already staged. They did not commit all, and russia doctrine is recon by fire and they don't give a fuck about their conscripts lives, but what you see is what Russia got. They didn't switch to demolish cities because they are evil. They ran out of precision munitions and the ukrainian had their asses handed to them so they switched to siege warfare. You are seeing the true face of the russian army, subpar by all standards, but enough for the butcher in Kremlin.