>According to Volobuev, the group’s appearance created “a lot of panic” in the Belovsky district. He described the current situation as “stable, but very tense.”
So Ivan, tell us how does it feel to get a taste of your own medicine?
I’ve said it in other post that was deleted, and I’ll say it again. Russian war doctrine assumes that once you’ve made a mile of land, that’s a mile of land to be plundered, stripped and population supressed.
They fight like mercenaries in medieval europe, feed them via looting, pay them via plunder, regroup and push forward. Concepts of forced march, spearhead and tactical military aim are so foreign to their doctrine, that any raid party which is fast, agile and can change orders, as I presume Ukrainian Officers can make a lot of decisions themselves on the fly like the Germans did with Prussian Officer decision doctrine just goes so hard against top-down military command of Russian army. If general is asleep? Don’t wake him up. If governorn is on vacation? Ah well, he’ll be back at some point right?
Russians don’t know what Ukrainians are doing may (I’m guessing) rely on Ukrainians having just broad tactical plans with aim of the attack, but the way it’s done is most likely all in the officers hands making those decisions. Hire smart people, let them do their job.
If you’ve got centralized commands you may be able to make a big battles, grand ideas and general overview but you’re losing so much of potential of Officers and people to change the tides of battle or war, and then if enemy raids you, there’ll be no intel to steal, no ‘one man idea’ to put into perspective, and no single point of failure to relay on.
So while Russians will scramble to get their war machine on defensive in those regions, Ukrainians COULD be so far ahead that next attack will be in motion before the defense of X can be plotted and put into motion.
TL:DR Ukraine learns from 1000 years of Kyiv history, Moscow banned all the books on history, so they’re repeating mistakes they’ve done 1000 years ago.
Just imagine if their goal is to get an ATTACMS unit in range of the Kremlin.
It makes me so happy to see these incursions. Unless Putin can get troops from his but buddies abroad this could well be a turning point.
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>According to Volobuev, the group’s appearance created “a lot of panic” in the Belovsky district. He described the current situation as “stable, but very tense.”
So Ivan, tell us how does it feel to get a taste of your own medicine?
I’ve said it in other post that was deleted, and I’ll say it again. Russian war doctrine assumes that once you’ve made a mile of land, that’s a mile of land to be plundered, stripped and population supressed.
They fight like mercenaries in medieval europe, feed them via looting, pay them via plunder, regroup and push forward. Concepts of forced march, spearhead and tactical military aim are so foreign to their doctrine, that any raid party which is fast, agile and can change orders, as I presume Ukrainian Officers can make a lot of decisions themselves on the fly like the Germans did with Prussian Officer decision doctrine just goes so hard against top-down military command of Russian army. If general is asleep? Don’t wake him up. If governorn is on vacation? Ah well, he’ll be back at some point right?
Russians don’t know what Ukrainians are doing may (I’m guessing) rely on Ukrainians having just broad tactical plans with aim of the attack, but the way it’s done is most likely all in the officers hands making those decisions. Hire smart people, let them do their job.
If you’ve got centralized commands you may be able to make a big battles, grand ideas and general overview but you’re losing so much of potential of Officers and people to change the tides of battle or war, and then if enemy raids you, there’ll be no intel to steal, no ‘one man idea’ to put into perspective, and no single point of failure to relay on.
So while Russians will scramble to get their war machine on defensive in those regions, Ukrainians COULD be so far ahead that next attack will be in motion before the defense of X can be plotted and put into motion.
TL:DR Ukraine learns from 1000 years of Kyiv history, Moscow banned all the books on history, so they’re repeating mistakes they’ve done 1000 years ago.
Just imagine if their goal is to get an ATTACMS unit in range of the Kremlin.
It makes me so happy to see these incursions. Unless Putin can get troops from his but buddies abroad this could well be a turning point.