Russian special military operation in Ukraine #34

The article posted by Ispan was great, the source I am not sure how credible, but it sounds plausible and well researched,

I think that as the author said, most of the Russian army problems stem from lack of political will and i have said this since months ago

Individual criticism of the SMO military leadership was called for, but perhaps exaggerated, given that in truth the army itself started to fight "without initiative"

Why wouldn't they?

Without clear orders, or clear objectives, the military leadership is in a state of confusion

If the primary objective is to protect manpower and personnel, military objectives become secondary and you have lost initiative, if not the war itself

Thankfully Russian military strength is such that this problem by itself would not cause a collapse of the military grouping in Ukraine

But imagine yourself a commander, and you are told to protect the lives of your men over achieving any visible or determinable military victories- well the conclusion would be to retreat back home wouldn't it? To save lives?

That is something which should be corrected, the military chain of command should understand its objectives and transmit those goals to the frontline , and ours should have as good targeting and network centric capabilities to rapidly react to changes in the front line

Actually with a numerical disadvantage, Russia would benefit tremendously from eliminating its own fog of war, and being able to pinpoint enemy nodes and our own front lines and to take advantage of opportunities which present themselves as the battles take place

I hope that these problems are resolved, because I cannot imagine that this situation can continue as it is for so long , paralysis from lack of support and command can cripple the army even in spite of high morale

Hopefully a unified combat control system utilizing strelok and other network centric tools can fix the deficiencies on the front

I don't mean the people on the ground.

The higher ups however, all the way to Zelensky's cocaine den surely know what's going on, and have the power to stop it. Technically, anyway.

But as it stands, the collective west and the local far-right nutters has the entire Ukrainian chain of command by the balls. Zelensky is like a low-level grunt "just following orders" at this stage. That's the bizarre thing. Nobody can step out of it and keep their lives, unfortunately. It's just an unholy spiral now, self-reinforcing itself to hell. But that's the design they came up with and all agreed to, I guess.

They're determined to grind this shit to the ground, all in the hopes of MAYBE giving Russia an annoying little bruise, at the expense of any and all Ukrainians that can be coerced into grabbing a gun and running into the grinder.

Sickening is what it is.

None of it had to happen, had Kiev agreed to some very reasonable, actually quite obvious conditions, eg Minsk II for starters. But Bandera scum wouldn't allow it to happen, the U.S. certainly did not want it to happen, and even that old hag Merkel admitted just the other day that Minsk II was a ruse to buy time for the inevitable confrontation. Poroshenko and his cronies made that abundantly clear before in many of their domestic addresses too, but you know how it goes, it's not there if western media decides not to write about it.

Blah blah blah. All of this is old news to most of you, I reckon.

Just felt the need to mention how stupid it is, mostly so for "Ukraine".