| >Russia have thrown everything they have at Ukraine over the last year-and-a-half. I don't believe that's the case. Russian military doctrine has always been to reserve the best systems for the end-game, and front 'fodder' in the beginning stages of things. I see Russia's war theatre manifest also in Syria, where the very same tactics are utilized to suppress the field. "Shock and Awe" is a US doctrine. Russian is more "Shake and Hold". "Massively overestimating themselves/underestimating themselves", is very difficult to contextualize, if you don't actually speak Russian. >The cupboard is empty. I'm sorry, I really don't agree. You might want to take a deeper look: https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/10/Russian-Military%20-Stra... You must, of course, steel yourself for some whiplash. The world is not entirely as it "seems". |
> I don't believe that's the case. Russian military doctrine has always been to reserve the best systems for the end-game, and front 'fodder' in the beginning stages of things.
This still doesn't explain the BMP-T's, the T90's and S300's that are deployed to Ukraine and destroyed in Ukraine.
>>The cupboard is empty.
> I'm sorry, I really don't agree. You might want to take a deeper look: > https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/10/Russian-Military%20-Stra... > You must, of course, steel yourself for some whiplash. The world is not entirely as it "seems".
If the cupboard isn't empty then why are there ~80 smoldering T62's in Ukraine.