Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

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  35. not really. combined arms is when infantry, tanks, artillery, air support, engineers, etc. simultaneously attack a single target in a proscribed and well timed manner to capitalize on all the strengths of each respective combat element. Being able to have units of completely different skills and combat capabilities, strengths and weaknesses, joint o attack a single objective in teh best way possible. An infantryman typically doesn't know much about how to be a tanker, and vice versa. A typical pilot doesn't know much about mine clearing and vice versa. A typical artilleryman doesn't know much about Urban Breaching, and vice versa. Some people in charge of each fighting element needs to have a working understanding of what the other elements do, and what aspects of the battle are critical to them, in comparison to their own element. Intelligence happens well in advance of a combined arms operation. Jamming is often going on continuously before during and after, and many elements have their own jamming native to their individual elements. Drones spotting artillery fire is part of the artillery operation in general. Counterbattery fire is not a combined arms thing, as combined arms is offensive, and counter battery fire is defensive. Combined arms coordinates its attacks to strike the enemy targets and not letting them get of their ideal shots. If anyone is going to attempt counter battery fire, it's the enemy you're attacking with combined arms. But if you execute a real combined arms assault successfully, they'll never get to counterfire. A better example is the artillery fires first, and walks forward as the infantry are moving into range before teh artillery even finishes firing, while the armored elements move up to support the infantry. All the while helicopters and fighters are on call to bring the heat as needed, or to strike specific enemy targets deeper behind the lines to prevent a coordinated counterattack (hitting command and control, lines of communication, bridges to cutoff reinforcements, providing air cover, etc.). Also, the engineers might move in as well to establish a needed bridgehead across a river or piece of terrain that is enroute to the objective, all while the tanks, infantry, artillery, etc. provide cover to them. Maybe even an air assault element that strikes specific target buildings once the ground elements reach a certain point in the attack. and if executed correctly, from start to finish the whole thing might last less than 1hour, or maybe take a few hours to secure all objectives.
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  110.  @zix_zix_zix  nope, I'm accounting for the weather. Ukraine made th mistake of giving Russia the winter when they had the momentum in the first year. now they are paying for it. Winters where I live are far more brutal and equally muddy as Ukraine. I know full well what their climate and weather is like. "and Russia has a very strong air defense; they possess the largest number of SAMs in the world.. " Iraq had the most heavily defended airspace on planet earth in 1991. US took it all down in a matter of days with technology and capabilities generations older than what we have today. Meanwhile, Russia is still using technology from the 1960s and 1980s. They've produced nothing new of consequence since the fall of the Soviet Union in terms of military technology or hardware. "I don't see any proof of that. I believe that Ukrainians have performed exceptionally well, against a superior enemy, so far. " they have done extremely well against Russia. Even I initially thought they stood no chance, until teh invasion actually began. Before the first day was up, I already knew Russia was going to fail badly, based on what I was seeing. But, that doesn't change the fact that since the winter of the first year, Ukraine has failed to gain meaningful ground. They had the initiative, and they gave it back to Russia. They are afraid, they don't take the right risks. They lack confidence, and they try to do too much at once rather than focus their efforts on the killing blow. Crimea should have been retaken by now. But it requires a level of leadership they are lacking still. Russia has no concept of grand strategy. They suck at logistics and have never struck strategically critical targets in Ukraine since day one. Ukraine has surprised Russia because they are more westernized and motivated to fight and innovate and adapt. But Ukraine still suffers from decades of being part of the Soviet Union none the less. It will take many years to fully overcome that.
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