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I think you are really going to enjoy this blog, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry https://acoup.blog/ https://acoup.blog/ It's all about history and it's p

I think you are really going to enjoy this blog, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry https://acoup.blog/ https://acoup.blog/ It's all about history and it's popular conception from an actual historian.

denton-scratch 5y ago
I wonder when acoup is going to reflect on the relationship between Russia's approach to taking Ukraine, and the Mongol long line of advance, transforming into a crescent and finally an encirclement. It certainly looks as if Russia tried to encircle Ukraine. Putin has spoken and written about the legacy of the steppe people to the Russians; it seems to almost be a romantic obsession of his. Unfortunately tanks and trucks are not horses, and the gist of the article is about the dependence of steppe horse armies on large amounts of grassland, and the effect that has on their operations.
- VHRanger 5y ago
  Russia tried to execute on their normal "Deep Battle" doctrine where they attack from multiple fronts simultaneously and culminate towards the same point. The problem was execution. Military analysts expected exactly that, but Russia failed in operations. See here on March 4th when it started becoming clear the operation was botched [1]: "They [Russia] have also continued conducting operations in southern Ukraine along three diverging axes rather than concentrating on one or attempting mutually supporting efforts. These failures of basic operational art—long a strong suit of the Soviet military and heavily studied at Russian military academies—remain inexplicable as does the Russian military’s failure to gain air superiority or at least to ground the Ukrainian Air Force." [1] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-update-14 https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-confli...

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I think you are really going to enjoy this blog, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry https://acoup.blog/ https://acoup.blog/ It's all about history and it's p

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denton-scratch 5y ago
I wonder when acoup is going to reflect on the relationship between Russia's approach to taking Ukraine, and the Mongol long line of advance, transforming into a crescent and finally an encirclement. It certainly looks as if Russia tried to encircle Ukraine. Putin has spoken and written about the legacy of the steppe people to the Russians; it seems to almost be a romantic obsession of his. Unfortunately tanks and trucks are not horses, and the gist of the article is about the dependence of steppe horse armies on large amounts of grassland, and the effect that has on their operations.
- VHRanger 5y ago
  Russia tried to execute on their normal "Deep Battle" doctrine where they attack from multiple fronts simultaneously and culminate towards the same point. The problem was execution. Military analysts expected exactly that, but Russia failed in operations. See here on March 4th when it started becoming clear the operation was botched [1]: "They [Russia] have also continued conducting operations in southern Ukraine along three diverging axes rather than concentrating on one or attempting mutually supporting efforts. These failures of basic operational art—long a strong suit of the Soviet military and heavily studied at Russian military academies—remain inexplicable as does the Russian military’s failure to gain air superiority or at least to ground the Ukrainian Air Force." [1] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-update-14 https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-confli...