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I haven't read this. I did used to read documents like this when I worked on dod/nsa projects. The software (basically command and control) we write was very id
by comrade1234 1y ago
I haven't read this. I did used to read documents like this when I worked on dod/nsa projects. The software (basically command and control) we write was very idealistic and I'm 100% sure would have broken down now that I see how Russia is fighting in ukraine and just sending meat into a grinder non-stop without end. It wouldn't have been predicted.
- zmgsabst 1y agoYou have the sides reversed: Russia pulled back on both flanks (Kharkiv and Kherson) to preserve men, while Ukraine grindered men in Bakhmut and Kursk and the “summer offensive”. One of the interesting aspects of this war is that Russia has a much better understanding of attritional war than either Ukraine or NATO.
- amai 1y agoRussia is losing 1000 men daily. Sure that is still 10 times less than in second world war, but I would not call that a strategy to preserve men.
- kjellsbells 1y agoThe lesson in Ukraine seems to be the same one we failed to learn in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq: major powers absolutely suck at asymmetric wars that the adversary considers matters of national or cultural survival. It turns into a meat grinder for the major power until domestic pressures force some sort of climbdown. Vietnamization and pacification became bribes to afghan militias and COIN. I cant think of a hot war that the West has won since Desert Storm. But what wars are like that now?