Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Was Bakhmut worth it? — Reaction to Michael Kofman" video.

  1. The arrogance of being a western military analyst, who always wears a "NATO style" thinking hat, is beyond your normal levels of idiocy. A former east block county, who literally has copies of the Russian fighting doctrine, and is running a massive internal "cleanup effort" within their own officer core to get rid of the inhuman, stupid and inefficient parts of that doctrine, will obviously always have a much better perspective on how to fight Russia with the resources they have available. The situation in Ukraine looks like WWI but with almost real-time battle field intelligence. Neither part can move any significant amount of resources close to the front lines without the other one knowing about it. Drones are everywhere, both the flying eyes variety and the lethal variety, to make artillery driven trench warfare even more hazardous than it already was. It's a truly bizarre mix of high-tech/low-tech approaches, and no western military scholars have anything to offer but blatant speculation about how to fight such a war. The old saying that "the army always fights the last war" depicts this situation well. In the west we think of either insurgency management or the first Gulf war. Insurgents don't have massive artillery parks and miles of mine fields, and Ukraine doesn't have enough air power to simply flatten anything that looks suspicious. For those two, rather obvious, reasons it's clear as daylight that everything needs a good re-thinking. This IS a war of attrition like Verdun. And yet it's also an intelligence war where precision strikes at just the right location at just the right time can seriously screw up weeks or months of operations for the other side. As an old artilleryman my first thought obviously is that Ukraine needs ALL the artillery and ALL the counter battery radars and spotter drones we can possibly scrounge up for them. A flyboy might think we need to furnish them with the capability to carpet bomb Russia out of existence, and the naval folks might think Ukraine needs a 30 battle ships and 15 submarines. But ultimately all of us needs to shut up and ask them what THEY think they need.
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