Comments by "GorillaGuerilla🇺🇦" (@gorillaguerillaDK) on "Five lessons about warfare from Ukraine" video.

Thank you for keeping us updated Anders, I highly value every time you take the time to give us your perspective! Tak for det Anders!
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Yeah, one of the largest problems, and that goes for everything where you speed up the training process is on the physical side. Smaller injuries that still can be problematic when they hit the combat zone are just more likely to happen when you don't have the time to build people up on the physical side. But hey, even four months isn't always enough for that part - hence, the reason why the most common injury among soldiers deployed to a war zone is back injuries, knee injuries, and ankle injuries. Things that isn't lethal, but can make soldiers less effective and put them at higher risk... That being said, it's still impressive what can be done when a range of countries send some of their best instructors.
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@agffans5725 Yup, still far from enough to minimize the risk of the kind of injuries I’m talking about! Of course there isn’t the time to make this a focus area, as it would in many cases take up to a year to build the kind of core strength needed for the job…
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They do - a lot of the drones that Ukraine has destroyed en route towards targets has been done by the Air Force. But planes, and pilots, are costly ressources - and Russia has learned the hard way that Ukraine are able to defend themselves fairly well against Russia's Air force. So now, most of what Russia is using their air force for is launching missiles from the airspace above Russia where they can feel fairly safe from Ukraines SAM and other AA capabilities...
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@agffans5725 You are clearly missing the point here. But it's all good, as I said, for obvious reasons this isn't something that will get attention as there's an acute need for soldiers. However, it's definitely something more countries who isn't actively involved in a war against a country that has invaded them, should be focusing a lot more on in an attempt to reduce the risk of soldiers getting these kind of injuries...
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@Flamechr True, it's very unfortunate, but something other countries at least add should consider more when thinking about cutting down on the time spend training their soldiers!
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Private funds, (donations from all over the world), has paid for access to at least one satellite, and Ukraine has been given information collected by other countries. But data from other countries, especially early on in the war, always had a lot of delay, because it needed approval before sharing...
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He's in vacation... 😜
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@agffans5725 Look, we're all good at something, the Lt.Col. is undoubtedly great at training soldiers and making capable warriors out of civilians, and you undoubtedly have something you're great at, playing Fortnite or making videos on TikTok, or maybe something else, where most of us would look to you as someone with some expertise! Now the reason why I'm saying you're missing my point is that it just so happen that I also have a field where I have a great deal of experience, and I will even dare to call it expertise - you see, I deal with injuries, rehabilitation, and how to avoid them on a daily basis. I also happen to live and work in a town with a garrison, and have first hand experience with what kind of injuries soldiers most often aquire, (and have several colleagues who's been deployed togheter with soldiers - add to this my own time in the Army and having several friends who made a long career out of it!) As I mentioned in an earlier comment, the most common physical injuries soldiers who's been deployed come home with are back, knee, and ankles - not injuries from shrapnel or bullets! But it's still enough to make them less effective in a fighting unit - and can sometimes end up being quite debilitating.... There is no way you can train ordinary civilians to a level where risks of these injuries are significantly reduced in such a short time span as there is to train the Ukrainian soldiers! Now I fully understand that there isn't time to build them up to a decent level - they are needed in Ukraine! And it is what it is! However, the huge risk, and my concerns, comes when politicians starts the "oh, we can train soldiers in much shorter time span than we have been used to doing", and possibly decide to start reducing the training time of our soldiers. The level we've been training our own soldiers to is already too low if we wanna reduce the risk of injuries significantly. And while back pain, knee and ankle injuries sound quite mondaine, it's extremely costly and can easily end up causing early retirement. Again, I stress, YES I'm aware, focusing enough on this part of training, is a luxury Ukraine can't afford - and the focus has to be on teaching them the most basic skills and I'm in no way trying to diminish the tremendous effort instructors are proving to train these soldiers! It's an absolutely amazing job!!! My only reason for voicing concerns is that if our politicians starts believing it's okay to spend shorter time training our own soldiers, then we need to stop them and remind them that there's actually more to it than just having the skills and being in "good shape"(as in condition). We have to remember that certain things just take more time, and one of them is "building" the soldiers, and not just train them....
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Officers, (and soldiers), from Ukraine has been working with NATO since they entered the Partnership for Peace program, Ukraine is even at Enhanced Partnership status - and has taken part in several NATO lead missions! Since 2014 Ukraine has received training by NATO, and they’ve often been applauded for their motivation and skills! If you compare the average age of Ukrainian high ranking officers to their Russian counterparts you will quickly discover that they are much younger - and while corruption and inefficiency is always a risk in any country, Ukraine has been quite good at handling this. Part of it might also be due to the wish of attaining membership of both NATO and the EU, where both organizations require applicants to show high effort in combatting corruption. Up until the war the Council of Europe had an office in Kyiv assisting the government in Ukraine as advisors in the fight against corruption on all levels…
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@pblakez Military/Intelligence reconnaissance satellites are very expensive, and the countries that can afford them, are very protective of data, so everything given to Ukraine is often happening with some delay, as it often requires several steps of approval and it will almost never be a live feed! They have several benefits, they usually have spectral imaging, can use radar imaging, and detect communication. But civilian satellites can still do a lot too, a lot of them have brilliant imaging equipment for scientific purpose, and unlike Military/Intelligence Reconnaissance Satellites, access can be bought for money, and will be in real time! So it’s more about finding the available satellites with the best orbit, and having people who are great at analyzing the feed…. Some of the attacks inside Russia was undoubtedly done with the assistance of such data, to make sure they were targeting planes getting ready to take off to deliver missiles against Ukraine…
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@RaVNeFLoK Well, everything that wasn't conforming to the former POTUS wishes was perceived as impolite - and I'm not so sure that the Danish PM wasn't aware that it could be taken that way. The idea was to absurd, no matter which of the possible meanings you put into the word - and the former POTUS was a thin-skinned w⚓!!!
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Tror du ikke at du bør overveje at tage kontakt til din læge? Ærligt talt, så får man indtryk af at du ikke er helt rask, og nok bør tale med en Psykiater inden for den allernærmeste fremtid!
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@soho2409 Ja desværre - og går man med tanker om at begynde at skyde løs i et indkøbscenter, så skal man helst ringe på en hverdag imellem 0900 og 1600
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Så hvor mange år har du så været i Forsvaret? Hvor har du været udsendt til?
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