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I am by no means an expert, but watching this conflict, I completely agree.
Highly mobile/precision lethality weapons in urban areas is likely the future. That's probably obvious to many, but to guys like me that played RISK growing up, it's pretty eye opening.
Thank you to all those that keep our country safe; I can't imagine what it feels like to be this vulnerable as a country.
Once again, Tom Clancy was there 35 years ago in Red Storm Rising with an accurate prediction for this:
"Every time we break through," Major Sergetov observed quietly, "they slow us down and counterattack. This was not supposed to happen." "A splendid observation!" Alekseyev snarled, then regained his temper. "We expected that a breakthrough would have the same effect as in the last war against the Germans. The problem is these new light antitank missiles. Three men and a jeep"he even used the American title for it"can race along the road, set up, fire one or two missiles, be gone before we can react, then repeat the process a few hundred meters away. Defensive firepower was never so strong before, and we failed to appreciate how effectively a handful of rearguard troops can slow down an advancing column. Our security is based on movement"--Alekseyev explained the basic lesson from tank school"a mobile force under these conditions cannot afford to be slowed down. A simple breakthrough is not enough! We must blast a massive hole in their front and race at least twenty kilometers to be free of these roving missile-crews. Only then can we switch over to true mobile doctrine." "You say we cannot win?" Sergetov had begun to have his own doubts, but did not expect to hear them from his commander. "I say what I did four months ago, and I was correct: this campaign of ours has become a war of attrition. For the moment, technology has defeated the military art, ours and theirs. What we're doing now is seeing who runs out of men and arms first."
Woah.
This pretty much lines up exactly with UTexan's video.
They're able to send a 40km long convoy to set up outside Kiev because the Ukraine rear guard is still busy in the East chasing a bunch of conscripts around and blowing them up and posting about it on Twitter.
As far as the sanctions, why do you think Putin is warning about NATO getting more power and getting closer to his doorstep? It's because they could threaten Russia militarily while controlling it economically whenever the West decides it wants to "influence" what is going on in Russia. So as far as Russia is concerned, the sanctions are proving why it's going to war in the first place. To be free of outside control and influence of their country.
And say we are getting propaganda from whichever side.
How is it going to feel to a weak willed US and European public when they've heard for days about how Russia losing 5,000+ men is catastrophic and then sometime in the future we hear of 5k Ukrainian losses?
10k, 20k, etc.?
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