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They're fighting a defensive war, not a war of maneuver. Easier to use IEDs and mines when you're bunkering down and the fields are mud -- necessitating the us
by blaser-waffle 5y ago
They're fighting a defensive war, not a war of maneuver.
Easier to use IEDs and mines when you're bunkering down and the fields are mud -- necessitating the use of a handful of roads.
I'd bet my hat that the reasons the Russians are surrounding the cities and blasting them down is because they know they'd run into tons of IEDs + NLAWs if they rolled into a city.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoThe big difference is that the Russian army has a strong precedent, and is happy to, blast cities to rubble and kill civilians indiscriminately. It works. For all the collateral damage that the US invasions in the middle east caused, US soldiers generally don't like murdering innocents blindly.