Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Why haven't we seen WW2-style mass tank offensives in Ukraine?" video.

USA moved fast thru iraq and Kuwait during the 91 desert storm and 2003 Iraq campaigns, due to a number of factors namely 1. superior training leadership and coordination. 2. Coaltion tank rushes were well coordinated with coaltion infantry. 3. Coaltion had air superiority, and support aircraft ranged at will over the battlefied. 4. Iraqi air defenses were well suppressed before the coaltion attacked. 5. and the Coalition had a massive technological superioirty over the Iraqis. and I would like to point out that in the 2003 invasion of Iraq , the US lost a few M1A1s and as I could remember a US massed helicopter attack was driven off by Iraqi air defenses. but the USA conquered iraq in a month with minimial losses. and the M1A1s lost were the result of the US tanks outrunning their infantry support and being hit by mobile Iraqi anti tank teams (on motorcycles and civilian vehicles). Looks like the Russians in Feb 2022 tried to emulate the US tank runs in Iraq but failed very badly. A year later I see the Russian army degraded devolving , not even achieving air superiority over Ukraine despite outnumbering the Ukrainian air force by a scale of ten. arguably having technologiacal superiority over the ukrainians. and overall numerical manpower and vehicular superiority. nad having at least 10X the industrial strength vs. ukraine and surprisingly and embarassingly , the Russians lost 50 percent of the territory their conquered from Ukraine from Feb to april 2022.
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no mass attacks due to the presence of lots of very effective ATGMs esp. javelins and NLAWS, also very bad Russian logistics. Also good leadership and coordination for the Ukrainians using a decentralized command and control system early in the war. The Russians tried to do mass tank attacks early in the Ukr war but it ended in disasters, the Russians outran their logistics and resulted in Russian tanks running out of fuel whichi resulted in lots of Russian tank abandons. and out of fuel Russian tanks or low fuel tanks turned into sitting ducks for ATGMs.
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The Iraqis also did mass tank attacks on the Iranians early in the Iran Iraq war of the 1980s and these were successful due to Iranians officer corps being purged and them replaced by inexperienced troops, many of them students, despite the Iranians having superior tanks like the chieftain, they got slaughtered by the iraqis equipped with T-62s and 55s, Later these Iraqi mass tank attacks became dangerous since the Iranians got a lot of RPG-7s, Saggers from the Chinese and North Koreans and used them in mobile hunter killer teams on motorcycles. and jeeps.
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syrians also lost lots of tanks during their civil war, using tank rushes without infantry support vs. Syrian guerillas armed with US and Russian ATGMs, that is why the Russians had to ship them lots of replacement T-72s. and had to intervene.
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why not? 1. lots of ATGMs and artillery to kill massed Russian armor. .2 BTGs not enough to provide security for Russian tanks. 3. Russian logistics is so bad, its cant seem to support massed Russian armor attacks. as shown in the Russian offensives in 2022, when the Russians tried, their logistics fell apart, that is why you have a lot of abandoned Russian armor getting towed by Ukr farmer tractors. 4. no air superiority.6. Poor Russian coordination, training , leadership.
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@MirroredVoid yes that one too, sat drones surveilance. both sides mainly know what the other sides are doing with the Russians having their own recon sattellites, drones and aircraft and the Ukrainians having NATO sats, drones and aircraft. However its funny how the Ukrainians still managed to surprise the Russians , I think also Putin's micromanagement of the war has been disastrous. as well as command and control doctrine which is heavilly centalized and does not really allow deviation and flexibility.
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@JL-tm3rc outgun yes, however Russian incompetence and low morale continues to dog the Russians. Firepower means nothing if the Russians cannot wield it properly.
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@Ž Š even more so in this war, since the ATGMs these days have become more portable , user friendly and a LOT more effective esp. the Javelins and NLAWs. Back in the 80s these two ATGMs were only in the drawing boards now a reality.
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