Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's ...

Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia’s plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures that Russia had in the beginning of the war.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    6 months ago

    Thanks for posting this, I hadn’t watched this creator before but the video was really interesting. It was a good point he raised that in no military strategy book will you find advice to spread your forces all along the line and push a little bit everywhere like the Russians seem to be doing now.

    I wonder if it’s just the political aspirations of the individual leaders playing out as was suggested in the video. It’d be great news for Ukraine if that was the case for sure.

    • sushibowl@feddit.nl
      4·
      6 months ago

      The Russian army also generally doesn’t seem to have the training and capability to launch an effective large scale combined arms assault in a single region. That’s probably a must to break through, otherwise concentrating forces and attacking into artillery will only lead to extremely heavy casualties.