Comments by "Geoffrey Lyons" (@granatmof) on "Why the Russian Army T-72 Tank is Worse Than You Think" video.

  1. I think when it comes to combat use, what causes effectiveness is training, experience and doctrine over specific armaments. It's about knowing your strengths and weaknesses in such a way to apply them to assuatling the enemy's strength and weakness. The Russian Military seems to be corrupt and poorly trained. It's okay to rely on wave strategy and tactics, but investing more in the training of those waves means more effective use of them. This is really where American and Russian doctrine differ. The US military places the most value in training and maintaining that level of combat readiness, sometimes at the cost of the lifetime bodies of their it's soldiers-who doesn't have a dozen veteran friends who sit around agonizing over injuries they sustained during training because they were never deployed in a combat zone, or were o ly involved in the back lines of battle zones? Us military doctrine values the lives of the soldiers while they're in service because money spent training a person is an investment, whereas a piece of hardware only decreases in value as its used. Russian doctrine doesn't seem to care about the live of the soldiers and views them as essentially expendable. With Russia's declining domestic population, this will only serve to bite them in the butt. Their loss of special forces groups in Ukraine is the result of lack of army wide training and support to properly field them. Now some of this is being corrected by Russia. Their redeployment to focus soles on absorbing from the east and South and consolidation of their forces, their supply lines etc may be the o ly way to procede: slowly and methodically. However slowing down merely results in Ukraine having more time training their own forces ans well as getting aid from the west. Ultimately Ukraine was a clusterkerflufle of poor strategy and planning. Peer state hardware would be meaningless without proper planning and drilling. Consider the D-day invasion: troops knew everything they needed to accomplish as well as the role one rank above and below them so there was adequate redundancies when losing men in the chain of command. The actual deployment in Normandy was a clusterkerflufle of epic proportions, but the soldiers on the ground were flexible to make the mission succeed due to months of training and planing for the mission. Russiantroops didn't have that. They found out essentially the day the rest of the world did that they were going to be invading Ukraine.
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