Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

[bala]

The US has given a 50 day window to Russia to stop Ukraine war. However, Russia is unperturbed by such ultimatums by the US. Andrei Martyanov laughs at the absurdity of the whole deal as proposed by DJT/NATO. Zels has been taken out of the equation and relegated to keeping his mouth shut - NATO will handle things henceforth. DJT has arm twisted the Eurotards to pay for equipment which the US will supply to Ukraine.

Military expert Andrei Martyanov, breaks down how the U.S. has lost strategic ground, why NATO’s plans are failing, and what comes next. Putin is smart and will make a dash militarily to get as much land as possible and leave Ukraine as a rump state. Russia will keep the land which it takes from Ukraine. The Dneipr river could be the boundary between Russia and Ukraine. Eurotards will be stuck with the bill to reconstruct Ukraine (what is left) and the bill for the defence of Ukraine by US will be handed over to them.

But NATO is not done with Russia. The hatred for Russia in Europe is so hardened that there is no return of such a posture. Europe economically will be screwed since their honeymoon good times with cheap Russian gas and oil is over. Russia is now secure with the notion that they can take on anything for a long time, they are battle hardened and will sharpen up their weapons/strategy to any further mischief targeting Russia. The next move (by NATO) could well be WW-III with nuclear exchange, only the brahman knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlKTCTMkElA

[Manish_P]

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A new field manual for tankers drew online chuckles. But it puts the threat of drones on the battlefield at the center of tactics used by Army armor units.
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Shows the fear which the drones have unleashed on the battlefield

Drone teams will be embedded with front line units.. like the man portable ATGM teams.

And tank squadrons will need to have dedicated jammer vehicle with them. Like Growlers accompany a Strike package in the air force.

[Tanaji]

@Deans,

One of the interesting things that came out of the Alaska summit was the Trump conference with reporters across AF1. Ignoring the usual tripe about “stop the killing” he mentioned that Ukraine lost 7011 people mostly soldiers in one month. That’s quite a specific number to mention for his brain and if true that’s crazy amount of casualties per day. That too at this stage of conflict where it’s mostly at a stalemate.

I suspect this was a slip up on his part revealing not quite public information given to him in briefings.

Also last year Ukraine was hyping up its summer offensive that failed. No such hype or gains this time?

[Vayutuvan]

he mentioned that Ukraine lost 7011 people mostly soldiers in one month. ...

Was he meant to give range and wanted to say "7000 to 11000"? If so, that is a lot worse number for Ukraine.

[Lisa]

@Deans,

One of the interesting things that came out of the Alaska summit was the Trump conference with reporters across AF1. Ignoring the usual tripe about “stop the killing” he mentioned that Ukraine lost 7011 people mostly soldiers in one month. That’s quite a specific number to mention for his brain and if true that’s crazy amount of casualties per day. That too at this stage of conflict where it’s mostly at a stalemate.

I suspect this was a slip up on his part revealing not quite public information given to him in briefings.

Also last year Ukraine was hyping up its summer offensive that failed. No such hype or gains this time?

Have checked online, Trump actually said 7011 in a week!!! If it includes all injured, then 1000 per day!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... 9ca0a7494c

"But that I don’t care about. … But what I do care about is they lost last week 7011 people, almost all soldiers; 36 people in a town which got hit by a missile.

Over 7,000 soldiers. It’s crazy.”"

[Tanaji]

A week! He must have gotten the timeline wrong.
7011 is an awfully specific number though…

[gakakkad]

Deans or anyone following the map , seems like russkies have started advancing in many directions ?

[Ambar]

Deans or anyone following the map , seems like russkies have started advancing in many directions ?

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgr ... st-15-2025

ISW does a good job of reporting on the war and updating the map. The front lines have been pretty much frozen for the last 2 yrs and any "advance" means less than a km forward and then falling back by a km. Russia has thrown everything and the kitchen sink at Ukraine, and yet has failed to take the city of Kharkiv and Kupiansk after trying for 3 yrs. Forget about the offensive, Russia has not managed to fully clear Kursk yet.. This is why i doubt if Zelensky will agree to cede any territory or negotiate a ceasefire.

India probably knows the outcome of this silly Putin-Narangee meeting in Alaska. This week BPCL placed an order for 10m barrels of oil from the US, and we are also shopping for alternative sources of crude from middle-east to Latam. We have also been making some reconciliatory statements saying the arms purchases with US is still on. Trump can do zilch about Russia or China, so he'll try to make an example out of India.

[Rudradev]

Did Trump literally say "Ukraine is losing lots of soldiers... people are saying they lost seventy-eleven soldiers last week"

[gakakkad]

isw is a think-tank Victoria nulands dad founded . She is the architect of this whole mess. I wonder if the maps are unbiased .

[Ambar]

It is hard to fake these things when both Ruskies and Ukrainis post everything on 'Telegram'. Russia would have celebrated the way they did after Mariupol if they were anywhere near taking Kharkiv or little Kupyansk. Russians are in no position to undertake large scale offensive and Ukraine is in no position to dislodge the Russians from areas it holds, and it will likely stay this way for the foreseeable future.

[Vayutuvan]

isw is a think-tank Victoria nulands dad founded . She is the architect of this whole mess. I wonder if the maps are unbiased .

If ISW is Institute for the Study of War, it was founded by Kimberly Kagan. Gen Jack Kean and Gen David Patraeus are on the board. From Wikipedia

ISW maintains close ties with the United States military and the defense industry,[9][2] and major contributors to the think tank have included General Dynamics, Raytheon, CACI and DynCorp.[17] ISW founder Kimberly Kagan participated formally on the Joint Campaign Plan Assessment Team for Multi-National Force – Iraq U.S. Mission – Iraq in October 2008, and as part of the Civilian Advisory Team for the CENTCOM strategic review in January 2009.[27] Kagan served in Kabul as a member of General Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team, composed of civilian experts, during his strategic review in June and July 2009. She and her husband Frederick returned to Afghanistan in the summer of 2010 to assist General Petraeus with key transition tasks following his assumption of command in Afghanistan.[21]

[gakakkad]

mohtarma kim kagan is sis in law of victoria nuland.

Victoria Nuland: is married to Robert Kagan.
Frederick Kagan: is Robert Kagan's brother.
Kim Kagan: is married to Frederick Kagan.

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a ... etual-war/

A Family Business of Perpetual War

[hanumadu]

Deans or anyone following the map , seems like russkies have started advancing in many directions ?

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgr ... st-15-2025

ISW does a good job of reporting on the war and updating the map. The front lines have been pretty much frozen for the last 2 yrs and any "advance" means less than a km forward and then falling back by a km. Russia has thrown everything and the kitchen sink at Ukraine, and yet has failed to take the city of Kharkiv and Kupiansk after trying for 3 yrs. Forget about the offensive, Russia has not managed to fully clear Kursk yet.. This is why i doubt if Zelensky will agree to cede any territory or negotiate a ceasefire.

India probably knows the outcome of this silly Putin-Narangee meeting in Alaska. This week BPCL placed an order for 10m barrels of oil from the US, and we are also shopping for alternative sources of crude from middle-east to Latam. We have also been making some reconciliatory statements saying the arms purchases with US is still on. Trump can do zilch about Russia or China, so he'll try to make an example out of India.

[Ambar]

Here’s the current map – https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/48.8287403/32.2338867 – where you can see the latest advances. Russia has pushed light infantry without any armor, and they are still miles away from Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, and Dobropillya. According to most reports, fewer than 1,000 Russian soldiers advanced about 9 miles on foot toward Pokrovsk. This move came right before the Alaska summit, seemingly to pressure Zelensky into ceding all of Donbas under the threat that Russia would take it militarily.

None of these tactics are new. Russia has carried out similar misadventures before, often at great cost just as Ukraine continues to hold pockets of Kursk for no clear strategic reason. Prior to the summit, there was talk that Russia would take Pokrovsk within 48 hours, yet here we are five days later with Russia barely able to hold the narrow corridor leading to the town.

This is a war of attrition. Both sides are counting on the other to run out of men and materiel as the meat grinder continues.