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> After seeing Ukraine turning into a WW1 quagmire Ukraine is nowhere near a WW1 quagmire. The lines are far from static, and we've seen one dramatic rout a mo
by jcranmer 4y ago
> After seeing Ukraine turning into a WW1 quagmire
Ukraine is nowhere near a WW1 quagmire. The lines are far from static, and we've seen one dramatic rout a month ago resulting from a competently-executed war of maneuver operation that was completely impossible in the WW1 situation.
It looks less like WW1 (a war that ultimately came down to bleeding men until one side ran out, at which point the war effort came flying off the rails extremely rapidly) and more like WW2 (a war of maneuver where applying sufficient overwhelming force in a narrow front could and did produce overwhelming breakthough--even if it took a very large stack of operational successes to ultimately prove victorious in the war).