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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted on 7/1/22 at 9:11 pm to Abstract Queso Dip
Posted on 7/1/22 at 9:11 pm to Abstract Queso Dip
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No one has been able emulate Pringles. America can make the best chips. We just choose to outsource
Lay’s Stacks are better than Pringles.
Posted on 7/1/22 at 9:13 pm to OMLandshark
Only a Russian sympathizer would say that.
Posted on 7/1/22 at 9:16 pm to OMLandshark
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The battalion commander shrugged helplessly when we advised him that five days was a completely inadequate amount of time in which to train his soldiers. “This is all we have—they are needed on the front,” he replied with grim finality.
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A few days later, on a separate course that we were running for his medics, half of our class disappeared on the second day. “We have had casualties,”
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Even in units that fall within the Ukrainian special operations command, most soldiers are sent to the front line with very little training. In one such unit, we estimated that just 20 percent had even fired a weapon before heading to combat.
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Each anecdote by itself a data point, but together they tell a story that belies the relentless optimism that has pervaded Ukrainian representation of the war from the outset. After four months of grinding attrition, the Ukrainian army is facing a manpower shortage.
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Col. Andrew Milburn USMC
Article at Westpoints Modern War Institute
This post was edited on 7/1/22 at 9:53 pm
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