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Not at all, you can have attrition of your forces whilst making meaningless advances. Attrition doesn't mean stalemate. They've made these advances of a few sq
by _joel 2y ago
Not at all, you can have attrition of your forces whilst making meaningless advances. Attrition doesn't mean stalemate.
They've made these advances of a few square km, at the expense of tens of thousands of lives. This is the meatwave tactic and is not sustainable. At that rate they'd need the entire polulation of Russia to make any advance on Kyiv.
- greenavocado 2y agoWhat you are describing is a war of attrition, not unsustainable meatwave tactics. To call Russian tactics "meatwave," large numbers of soldiers or militia would have to charge at enemy positions in waves, often with minimal support from armored or mechanized units. This is simply not what is happening.
- _joel 2y agoIt very much is. Batallions are being sent on foot with very light APC backing, or in cheap chinese off-road gold buggies with no protection. Maybe an occasional T62 or something archaic for support.
- _joel 2y agoI guess the UK MoD are wrong too then, according to you... https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1796467954907037817/photo/1 https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1796467954907037817/photo/1