re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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you just went from 6 to midnight typing this out didn't you ?

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Nope. Just saying that’s what I would do. I don’t expect the Russians to actually do it though because they aren’t very good at combined arms tactics. Which is what that scenario would be. There’s a lot of talk about combined arms in this thread but I don’t think most in this thread really know what it means. It’s not simply using a bunch of different weapons systems at the same time.

The essence of combined arms is putting the enemy in a dilemma where he has no good options, or as few good options as you can leave him. In the scenario I laid out the Ukrainians can either continue to push forward and face tanks and entrenched enemy with missiles and rockets, stay where they are and get pounded by artillery and air power, or retreat and run into a minefield.

On the flip side if I were the Ukrainians I’d go all in on the attack in the south. Cutting the land bridge to Crimea is needs to be the one and only objective. Quit fricking around near Bakhmut and up north and divert troops to the south, even if it means giving up ground in the north. Pound the enemy lines with artillery and use infantry and sapper attacks to punch a hole through the weakest part of the line you can find and then let your armored formations go through and run amok behind the lines. That’s called maneuver warfare. I guess that’s kind of what they’ve been trying to do lately but it may be too little too late.