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by jakuboboza
1566 days ago
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Putin is trying very hard, but western people don't understand war and russian starting point. * Logistics is being targeted
* Russian army relies in railroads like its 1945
* Ukraine targets logistics as the well identified weak link
* Ukraine is defended by everyone and everyone hates Russians.
* Morale is Russian army is turbo low. They dont want to kill people who could be their relatives.
* Generals on Russian side die further demoralizing them.
* They realised top is using them often as cannon fodder.
* Logistics company in US army is usually 4 times bigger than in Russian army per organisational unit of army. It means that US understand the war much better than Russia. |
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I seem to remember that this is largely based on well-known historically different assumptions between the US and Russia/USSR in case of a conflict in Europe.
US expects to fight on the ground in countries that are either allies or whose hearts and minds will need to be won. Also, US has the largest industrial capacity in the world, so they can afford to bring stuff (including chocolate and candies to give around) but they cannot afford to take stuff.
Russia/USSR expects to fight on the ground in occupied countries. Producing and bringing enough from the homeland to feed the soldiers (and the tanks) is too complicated and logistics are easy to target, so the doctrine recommends feeding from the land, aka plunder.