Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "Ukrainian special forces snipers wipe out enemy Russian recon units" video.

The purpose of a recon is gather intelligence on the enemy’s location and strengths in a given area. You use stealth to probe the location and the enemy’s fire kill zones, without revealing yourself to the enemy. In WW2 they would some times do a provoking recon by firing small weapons on the possible enemy location and have them fire back revealing their lines of fire. When an enemy is doing a recon on your position, you hold your fire to prevent them from knowing your company size and weapons location. You wait until they come close to your position where you can wipe them out without them reporting back. The Russian recon team was poorly trained, walking in an open field trail and walking upright and silhouetted against the tree line.
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@EonServoXA The term Spetsnaz is an overall term for Russian special trained personnel. Surprisingly not every Spetsnaz unit is under the Russian military command structure, but is controlled by separate Russian government departments for assassination, kidnapping, espionage, and sabotage. The real Russian Special Forces are the VDV (Russian airborne forces). They were badly mauled at the start of the invasion and lost a considerable amount of men during the first month of the invasion and had to be withdrawn back into Russia.
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@jaydon707 “The Global Times (simplified Chinese: 环球时报; traditional Chinese: 環球時報; pinyin: Huánqiú Shíbào) is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, commenting on international issues from a nationalistic perspective. The publication has been labelled as "China's Fox News" by some scholars and writers for its propagandistic slant and the monetization of nationalism…”Wikipedia. I watch and read only “Free Western Independent News Media” and "NOT" Communist propagandist agents writing for the Chinese Communist Party.
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@UCapSjtXFZjM4rvGRnqR8ypA This obviously a lie, a tank with its noisy engine and tracks, could not get right next to dismounted troops. One of a tanker’s main fears is dismounted troops sneaking up and destroying their tank with anti-tank weapons or disabling their tank track with grenades.
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@jaydon707 What’s your point? France was a former member of NATO and decides to go it alone and left. Turkey can also leave NATO if it wants to and go it alone.
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@cantiaci Yes, you can quit NATO and reapply like France did. Turkey can threaten to leave and leaving won’t break NATO. "Iceland is the only Ally that does not have its own military forces. As a founding member, and engaged in a bilateral defense agreement with the United States, Iceland provided facilities and land for NATO installations as its main military contribution to the Alliance until the 1990s..." NATO. The US has sponsored Iceland by providing its military force for Iceland when the NATO installations were removed from Iceland as no longer required.
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Ops Blac A reconnaissance is a patrol whose primary mission is to obtain intelligence about the enemy size, terrain, and resources using stealth and avoid getting into a fire fight. A combat patrol is used to harass the enemy using a small force by hit and run tactics, ambush, sabotaging and destroying the enemy‘s resources, or conducting perimeter security patrol to guard against enemy intrusion with intelligence gathering as a secondary function of the patrol.
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@oldspecviews The Russian major weakness is their military command and control structure and the civilian control over the military command by firing and replacing generals or admirals at Putin‘s whim. They are heavily micromanaged from their Soviet era military training and waiting for a superior officer or Putin for orders during an engagement with the enemy. They have loss at least a dozen general staff officers and countless field grade officers (majors and above) and countless low grade officers attacking a country right across their own boarder who is notably a weaker adversary.
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@jaydon707 Not always, you need to read other independent sources but they are more truthful than TASS or Global Times controlled by Putin or the Chinese Communist Party.
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