From what I understand it’s 150,000 troops which will include combat infantry and support personnel. You need a lot of support personnel to supply infantry effe

From what I understand it’s 150,000 troops which will include combat infantry and support personnel. You need a lot of support personnel to supply infantry effectively. We’re talking cooks, field hospital staff, people trained to be truck drivers, armorers, operations personnel, radio operators, you name it. It’s noteworthy that it appears (smartly) that the Ukrainians are ambushing and taking out supply convoys and units which are way less capable of fighting, but are nonetheless critical. What I’ve seen is Russia lacking in the ability to conduct combined arms operations. Like say you want to take some piece of geography. You’d want to have close air support, artillery being directed toward enemy positions, etc. and it seems that this is just not happening. When the United States invaded Iraq, according to Wikipedia it was with 177,000 with 45,000 from the United Kingdom [1]. And this was for a country that was all but inept against American forces, and a local population that certainly didn’t care for Saddam. You could also probably draw up comparisons equipment-wise with the US and Russia now, except give the Iraqis missiles used in war in 2022, take away combined arms, and instead of having an at least somewhat welcoming population you have one that’s armed to the teeth and hates you and is getting fed intel on your every position. Russia assumed they’d be able to decapitate the country before anyone knew what to do, but then that didn’t happen, and now they don’t have enough troops without conscripting Russians and sending them to Ukraine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq?wprov=sf...