I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. What I Saw in the Russian and Ukrainian Armies

Re:I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. What I Saw in the Russian a... by gvb on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:58PM (#31010045)

Interesting. The article by Lt. Col. Grant was published July 16, 2021 and is very critical of Ukraine. If I read the article in mid February, I would have expected the Ukrainian army to be defeated in 3-4 days.

They obviously got their shit together in a big way when Russia invaded. The army that is fighting Russia is not the army described by Lt. Col. Grant.

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Re:I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. What I Saw in the Russian a... by wrp on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:59PM (#31011086)

Yeah, you kind of put your finger on it. The Ukrainian performance has been surprising. The elephant in the room is how much of that is due to hidden NATO help, e.g. with signals intelligence (http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/blog/2022/04/02/how-much-is-u-...). Obviously, anyone who really knows won't be interested in talking about it for a long time.

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Re:I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. What I Saw in the Russian a... by ttttttthu66ttt on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:46PM (#31010361)

Or the Russian bear is more of a racoon

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