The death rune speaks: military newsletter
Old but effective WW2 tactics: Russians on golf buggies. Training chaos. Azov: organizational problems, necessary reforms. Battalion, Tactical Group, Operational Command. Prokopenko/Bezuhla
An overview of today’s topics:
How the Russian army is using effective WW2 tactics of small groups seizing bridgeheads in Ukrainian positions. Except, with golf buggies.
I do my best to explain some of the basic building-blocks of Ukraine’s army - Brigades, Battalions, Tactical Groups, and Operational Commands
USAID-funded Babel on inefficient Ukrainian military authoritarianism versus effective Russian military decentralization and low-level initiative
Azov’s top commander Prokopenko on the organizational chaos which dooms the Ukrainian army - ‘Time is working against us.’ His comparison with Russia’s more effective organizational structure.
Parliamentarian Bezuhla on the alcoholism and absurdity reigning at Ukraine’s military training sites
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