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[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

Perhaps provide some air superiority to back up those suggestions of force concentration?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

they are now on it. It just takes over a year to train pilots, sadly

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Which is why it's shameful that they didn't start training programs last year.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

From scratch, sure, but surely am already trained pilot would take significantly less time to learn a new airframe?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It isn’t just about flying a plane.

You’ve got to be certified in each weapon the planes are supplied with. You’ve got to learn the doctrines, then shift to the doctrines, that the planes were built for.

Then you’ve got to resupply the planes. Maintain them. Fix them. Service them. Store them. Debug them. Keep them in the air.

There’s a massive logistical challenge to integrating F-16s into Ukraine.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Training is needed

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Tell them behind closed doors not us, shithead!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I'm going to go off on a limb and say they wouldn't be if it weren't already well known by the enemy

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

U.S. Officials Say they Misallocated Ukraine’s Forces and Firepower

Title without the passive voice.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

For those who have only seen the headline:

Nearly three months into the counteroffensive, the Ukrainians may be taking the advice to heart, especially as casualties continue to mount and Russia still holds an edge in troops and equipment.

U.S. assessed Ukraine's counteroffensive strategy and made recommendations, and now Ukraine is adjusting its strategy accordingly. The headline makes it sound like an endemic issue. Some analysts think it's too little too late, but I wish them the best.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

So 'Bahmut holds' wasn't a viable strategy after all???

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think its definitely too early to say whether or not any particular element of either Russia or Ukraine's strategy in the war has been 'viable' at this point in time. The ultimate long-term effects of either side's major strategic decisions are probably difficult to understand right now even for the ones who have been making them, let alone for outside observers such as ourselves.

We can at least acknowledge that Bakhmut was the culminating point of Russian offensive operations in the Donbas. Would it have been the culminating point of their offensive if Ukrainians didn't defend it so fiercely? Who can say. Both Russian and Ukrainian forces were heavily attrited in the battle there - will this benefit Russia or Ukraine more? Who can say. There are 'conventional wisdom' answers to both of these questions, but the nature of the fog of war is such that even small, seemingly unrelated developments can drastically alter the valence of what was previously established as strategically advantageous for one side or vice versa.

Even when institutions dedicated to the study of warfare attempt to analyze utilized strategy X versus counterfactual strategy Y from some episode of military history, the debates are often unending. So can't you see how cringe it is to claim as a layman that it should've been obvious to a given commander (and at runtime, too, despite the fact that you're making the criticism with the benefit of hindsight) that strategy Z would have been clearly superior to whatever it was they thought was best, back then?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The US is calling for the Somme

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