Comments by "James H Gornall" (@jamesgornall5731) on "Ukraine's Counteroffensive Begins: What Happens Next?" video.

@badluck5647 the thing with artillery is that it in itself is a force multiplier, say you have an urban fight where there will always be a 5:3 casualty ratio in your favour because you are defending, that is great if you have the troops to plug into that arithmetic and get a favourable result... If however all you have to do is fight long enough to get enemy forces to slow down long enough to get their location and report those back to battalion and division level gunners you might be able to achieve the same while maintaining a 20:1 ratio in your favour because those forward elements can now bleed away to their next position. It happens, artillery causes 70% of military casualties
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@bangscutter on the contrary you've got a force not much smaller than its opponent which can be air supplied to an extent, with no incentive whatsoever to surrender to an opponent which as you say, hates them
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@btfrost if what they were saying was true Russia might have broken up into a series of oblasts each run by its own oligarch as a sort of kleptocratic city state by now, also the RF army would be fighting with only karate chops and the odd bicycle kick
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@phoenixgagnon1559 tactics only I'm afraid love; tactical, operational level great but a strategic quagmire
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@TheGemar14 because they're trying it, and failing, hence the term is self evidently accurate
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@TheGemar14 the assault forces have been trained in the UK and acted as a vanguard force in this operation, yet they were shelled so heavily that many units are combat ineffective. Ukraine is learning that attacking a dug in enemy with a plan, a large number of mobile reserves and still well supplied with artillery is an incredibly difficult prospect and results in heavy casualties even if executed properly. Trying to do this with an infantry heavy, conscript heavy (I know they use the term "volunteers" but a volunteer who isn't allowed to leave the country or refuse the duty is a conscript by another name) force... Rather them than me
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