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Eight months seems pretty quick to me but maybe that just shows I'm not brushed up like you. Maybe I admire the Greatest Generation more than I should. The Ukra

Eight months seems pretty quick to me but maybe that just shows I'm not brushed up like you. Maybe I admire the Greatest Generation more than I should. The Ukrainians have had a year of war plus the preceding eight years under the Minsk Accords to perfect their technique of killing people using USA weapons, yet somehow the victory guaranteed by our war media has thus far eluded them. Our employees in Afghanistan had twenty years to learn our great training of fighting Taliban. I honestly think some of our leaders were surprised by how poorly the training went! Perhaps they will revamp some training plans! Sure call WWII an "allied victory": Stalin did. I'm not talking about "credit". TFA pretends to be a practical analysis, so I criticize it on that basis. The Soviets learned more about war than we did, and we've forgotten most of what we learned. TFA, in turn, crouches about the shins of hobbits.

rascul 4y ago
> Eight months seems pretty quick to me Even less nowadays. I think I saw that infantry training in the US Army was extended in the past few years from 14 weeks to 22 weeks (including basic combat training). On top of that, both times I deployed, we had people fresh from initial entry training who hadn't been in the unit a month before we shipped out, leaving minimal time for additional training. Most of that time before deploying was spent doing various types of paperwork, processing, briefings, and other stuff that wasn't training.
tlear 4y ago
Ukraine was supplied with an insignificant amount of weapons before 2022. Their kit was basically USSR kit plus some new things like Stugna, lase guided shells, distributes artillery control app etc If Ukraine had couple brigades of Lepards, HIMARS and few hundred 777 at the start of the war, this all would have went a lot differently. Alas lesson here is simple under no condition do you give up nukes.

rascul 4y ago

> Eight months seems pretty quick to me Even less nowadays. I think I saw that infantry training in the US Army was extended in the past few years from 14 weeks to 22 weeks (including basic combat training). On top of that, both times I deployed, we had people fresh from initial entry training who hadn't been in the unit a month before we shipped out, leaving minimal time for additional training. Most of that time before deploying was spent doing various types of paperwork, processing, briefings, and other stuff that wasn't training.

tlear 4y ago

Ukraine was supplied with an insignificant amount of weapons before 2022. Their kit was basically USSR kit plus some new things like Stugna, lase guided shells, distributes artillery control app etc If Ukraine had couple brigades of Lepards, HIMARS and few hundred 777 at the start of the war, this all would have went a lot differently. Alas lesson here is simple under no condition do you give up nukes.