US media now says Ukraine's counteroffensive needs a plan B (time.com)

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[-] T34@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 years ago

While it has begun slowly to adapt, Ukraine’s military is still deeply rooted in Soviet-era offensive tactics and culture, centralizing decision-making at the top while penalizing subordinate soldiers who dare to deviate from the plan.

"Ukraine's losing cuz communism!"

lol

[-] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Isn't Russia deeply rooted in Soviet tactics too?

Like, that can't be the issue if they're both using them.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

When the propaganda was still "Ruzzia is losing hard" of course they blame said losing on "being rooted in Soviet era" and Ukraine winning on NATO training and equipment. I bet we will soon read some galaxy brain claiming "Russia learned from NATO while Ukraine didn't" because of course NATO is when winning.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

That's the eastern Europe for you. In postsocialist countries, even after over 30 years of the destruction of socialism, literally every failure gets blamed on socialism.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Holy shit i can't believe that's an actual quote.

[-] ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I'm not really knowledgeable about this at all, but I could've sworn I've heard that inflexibility in plans and overpenalization of subordinates for not following exact orders is a huge flaw in the US military. So they will literally project anything and everything lol

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