The author fails to factor in MATO’s unmatched air power and experience in combined arms deployment. That 40 mile column of tanks and trucks would have been taken out on day 1 with close to 100% casualties on the Russian side and in the space of a morning.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
2 years ago
So, whats new? The Army has always trained to fight ” the last war”, and adapted to the one that they actually do fight, throughout history.
Tom Lewis
2 years ago
“Quelle surprise”, or in Anglo Saxon, “ No *hit”.
The one standout of this battle, for me, is the power of the individual soldier, with anti-tank and anti-air launchers, to ‘blunt’ if not halt, point attack by enemy armoured or air assets. It suggests warfare, of this type, will revert to something akin to WW1. Find the enemy and then pulverise them with artillery before occupying the wasteland.
The only thing that will be effective against that stand off Artillery, or missile threat, is having sufficient ability ‘power’ to prevent, dissuade, or neutralise that threat. You might call it ‘offence-defence’, but it is far preferable, particularly for the defence, to just sitting there.
The logical conclusion from what you’ve said is to use a small ‘tactical’ nuke to neutralise an entire artillery battery.
Who’d be first to throw that card on the table?
If it were Putin who did, what then?
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Simon Diggins
2 years ago
I’m not sure a ‘soldier from Kidderminster’ is an altogether reliable guide.
I served for over 35 years and we trained, and occasionally fought, in a variety of contexts: from Internal Security in NI, to armoured warfare in Gulf War 1, through varieties of C Insurgency, in Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan. None were General War but those who served before 1989, were all trained, pretty thoroughly, in that.
I do not doubt the shock of mass Russian artillery and other indirect fires but we can, and must adapt and will. It may mean that we hear a little less from the ‘light and lethal’ gang – and their baleful influence on the last review of the Army needs squashing – but I’m confident that the British Army will adapt.
The author fails to factor in MATO’s unmatched air power and experience in combined arms deployment. That 40 mile column of tanks and trucks would have been taken out on day 1 with close to 100% casualties on the Russian side and in the space of a morning.
So, whats new? The Army has always trained to fight ” the last war”, and adapted to the one that they actually do fight, throughout history.
“Quelle surprise”, or in Anglo Saxon, “ No *hit”.
The one standout of this battle, for me, is the power of the individual soldier, with anti-tank and anti-air launchers, to ‘blunt’ if not halt, point attack by enemy armoured or air assets. It suggests warfare, of this type, will revert to something akin to WW1. Find the enemy and then pulverise them with artillery before occupying the wasteland.
The only thing that will be effective against that stand off Artillery, or missile threat, is having sufficient ability ‘power’ to prevent, dissuade, or neutralise that threat. You might call it ‘offence-defence’, but it is far preferable, particularly for the defence, to just sitting there.
The logical conclusion from what you’ve said is to use a small ‘tactical’ nuke to neutralise an entire artillery battery.
Who’d be first to throw that card on the table?
If it were Putin who did, what then?
I’m not sure a ‘soldier from Kidderminster’ is an altogether reliable guide.
I served for over 35 years and we trained, and occasionally fought, in a variety of contexts: from Internal Security in NI, to armoured warfare in Gulf War 1, through varieties of C Insurgency, in Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan. None were General War but those who served before 1989, were all trained, pretty thoroughly, in that.
I do not doubt the shock of mass Russian artillery and other indirect fires but we can, and must adapt and will. It may mean that we hear a little less from the ‘light and lethal’ gang – and their baleful influence on the last review of the Army needs squashing – but I’m confident that the British Army will adapt.