This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Their insignia throws me off. Three stars on the shoulder is a colonel?*
*edited to note this suggests he is indeed a colonel because there are two red lines going through the 3 stars
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On a different subject...
Russia has been exposed...while they've made technology advances with their top end stuff, which is pretty good....their command and control/tactics, logistics and the training of their forces suck.
To take advantage of the better equipment you have to be on point with the last 4 items...they aren't.
Makes me wonder about the Chinese....they've also made great advances in tech. How are they in those 4 area's? We really have no data points to judge on that front.
Folks have speculated that sooner or later the Chinese will make a move on Taiwan. We do know that the Taiwanese military is very "westernized" and highly trained. This whole Ukraine debacle may give China pause...
Russia has been exposed...while they've made technology advances with their top end stuff, which is pretty good....their command and control/tactics, logistics and the training of their forces suck.
To take advantage of the better equipment you have to be on point with the last 4 items...they aren't.
Makes me wonder about the Chinese....they've also made great advances in tech. How are they in those 4 area's? We really have no data points to judge on that front.
Folks have speculated that sooner or later the Chinese will make a move on Taiwan. We do know that the Taiwanese military is very "westernized" and highly trained. This whole Ukraine debacle may give China pause...
Looks a lot like Stalingrad. We can only hope that somehow it turns out that way for Russia this time.
I know our spending on military technology and equipment is controversial and I totally get that. One thing that should never be controversial is the amount of money we invest in our armed forces from a force training or force readiness perspective. The amount of advanced training, drills, exercises, multinational exercises, etc….I think gives us and our Allie’s a huge advantage on the battlefield. It is pretty apparent that while Russia has some good weapons, they are terrible at employing them and that goes back to training. I wonder how much money that was intended for training had been turned into yachts and vacation homes.
Agree....we've seen this before.
Before Gulf War 1 there were estimates of 10K US casualties because Iraq's military was relatively "modern". They had relatively large and well stocked Air Force...MIG-29's and Mirage F-1's. Decent Air Defence systems etc....
We basically obliterated their Air Force in the first couple days....
Their troops were mostly ill trained conscripts....
Anyway...it turned into a cake walk.
A well trained/motivated force is essential...
I read up a little on this. There was a guy from US armed forces explaining this and his point was without training your natural instinct is to stay in your vehicles. You perceive them as protecting you. But tanks and vehicles need screening and you need lots of training to be able to stick your head out, and coordinate movement to be effective.
Many of the Russians are apparently one year conscripts. You aren't going to be very good at this type of thing in that limited amount of time and many are probably unmotivated were just biding time until they were discharged. I think the Russians ahave realized that have to screen but since they aren't trained they don't know how to do it.
How high of rank can a climate envoy be in Russia?
Putin probably didn't even know she resignedHow high of rank can a climate envoy be in Russia?
Putin probably didn't even know she resigned
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"She sounds hideous"
"Well.....she's a guy"....
Actually, Putin views stuff like this as an act of disloyalty.
Poisons people for less....
517 tanks and and 1578 APC’s….is that really accurate? That’s quite excessive and I assume a crew of at least three in each tank. What a gd slaughter. I feel for the kids being forced to serve. Could be any of our sons.
How high of rank can a climate envoy be in Russia?
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David Patreus was talking about this on CNN last night. He was being pushed about Russia being able to realign its strategy and bring in more men and equipment and he said “Yeah, but this is the Army they’re stuck with. It doesn’t matter how good the equipment it is or how many men there are, if they aren’t well-trained, they cannot perform.”
The swiss taking a few steps back from their historical neutrality may be one of the biggest stories of this whole affair.
I enjoy these posts way more than I honestly should.
I'd do it even if I couldn't get away with it.
He's an oligarch and was in charge of privatization during the 1990s.
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"Jurek Owsiak broke the system! In cooperation with @ krzaskowski_, he built a huge professional hall for Ukrainians escaping the war! There are beds, armchairs, tables, play areas for children, a kitchen, toilets, showers .. Perfect organization in 6 days !!"
Yeah, just going by the picture you’d assume he promised to put every girl in Ukraine in his music video.
