That's assuming there's no political aspect of wars.
Sometimes war is not fought with the sole aim of winning
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That's assuming there's no political aspect of wars.
Sometimes war is not fought with the sole aim of winning
So...artillery is still the 'God of War' eh? It's so destructive.
Absolutely
As long as logistics holds up. The Ukrainians are using a smart strategy going after the ammo supply. Superior arty is useless without ammo, and Russian logistics has been spotty in the best of conditions since Day 1 of this war.
I want to get the joke, but I have no idea who that is
A Russian artist... I think.
Fun (eh) fact: artillery caused 60% of casualties in WW1.
Ohhhh… cause I used the arty abbreviation. Got it
It seemed droll to me, sorry. Never seen that abbreviation before, assumed it was spell check
Over 60% of them in Europe and the Mediterranean in WWII as well.
Haha nah, it’s just military shorthand for artillery.
One day I will catch one!!!
Russian ammunition logistics has not changed anything since WW2. Everything is still transported in wooden boxes by train and loaded/unloaded by hand. This means that they are moving a shit ton of wood in every shipment and the loading and unloading times are very long. They also end up with huge stockpiles next to train tracks close to the front which are fairly easy to find and target for the Ukrainians.
Western ammunition logistics
Russian ammunition logistics
And there you have it.Russian ammunition logistics has not changed anything since WW2. Everything is still transported in wooden boxes by train and loaded/unloaded by hand. This means that they are moving a shit ton of wood in every shipment and the loading and unloading times are very long. They also end up with huge stockpiles next to train tracks close to the front which are fairly easy to find and target for the Ukrainians.
Western ammunition logistics
Russian ammunition logistics
“Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics”
western propaganda.
Air Force is the God of War today. USAF would be able to eliminate Russian artillery quite fast. However, Ukrainians do not have a modern Air Force, so...
Latvia has a 24% ethnic Russian population according to Wiki.
And even if they did, Putin could always escalate with much more destructive weapons.
That's generally considered unsafe.
I'm a goalie, can't you tell by my name?! I'll catch anything! Obviously not a debilitating illness, but anything else! Also not transport... I'll catch some things!
Analysis of artillery usage in the war so far. Another great video essay by Perun.
Well. For artillery stuff, I hope you have soft hands...
Probably true. The US very much does not want a direct war with Russia of course.
There's risk of nuclear escalation and even if it's only conventional any significant casualties difficult from domestic perspective.
To be fair that lot was likely looking at missiles flying from under, so you likely shared a crucial intel.
Some!
Why would I catch that arty stuff? I'm a goalie, so I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid!
(Plus, there's a WH Smiths around the corner, I can buy all the arty stuff I like!)
And now we've gone full circle! Nice!
And now we've gone full circle! Nice!
‘We have a new Hitler in Russia’: Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina on Putin’s crimes and her years of resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...khina-putin-crimes-hitler-years-of-resistance
If there had been the sanctions there are now after Crimea and the subsequent invasion of the Donbas, Alyokhina is certain that we would not be in this mess today. “We were calling for a full embargo in 2014 and again in 2015. We were doing street actions. I was arrested 100 times. I hear a lot of discussion in the west that it’s very hard and painful to stop buying oil and gas – well, you guys had eight years. In eight years, it would have been possible. In one month, it’s hard. Maybe politicians were afraid of their voters protesting that their houses were cold. Now Ukrainians don’t have houses at all.”
She lays out in brutal terms what this combination of inertia and self-interest has created. “Money from the west is the basis of our imprisonment, of our poisoning, of political murders and, now, of the war in Ukraine. I really want people to understand this and stop it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...khina-putin-crimes-hitler-years-of-resistance
If there had been the sanctions there are now after Crimea and the subsequent invasion of the Donbas, Alyokhina is certain that we would not be in this mess today. “We were calling for a full embargo in 2014 and again in 2015. We were doing street actions. I was arrested 100 times. I hear a lot of discussion in the west that it’s very hard and painful to stop buying oil and gas – well, you guys had eight years. In eight years, it would have been possible. In one month, it’s hard. Maybe politicians were afraid of their voters protesting that their houses were cold. Now Ukrainians don’t have houses at all.”
She lays out in brutal terms what this combination of inertia and self-interest has created. “Money from the west is the basis of our imprisonment, of our poisoning, of political murders and, now, of the war in Ukraine. I really want people to understand this and stop it.”
She's not wrong.
She's 200% right on the money.
Poland appears to be the only major country on the continent that was preparing itself for that scenario.
Ukraine announcing big offensive in order to take coastal regions back.