general staff keeps a steady the supply chain full
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The UAVs are not purchased by the general staff. They are purchased via fundraisers in the troops home towns and cities.
The US general staff provides a uniform, WWII helmet, an Enfield rifle or a Maxim machine gun, if any of that. All else is on the folks at home to provide.
The general staff is mostly a bureaucracy following the Soviet military model. Advances and victories in the field are mostly the result of initiative and ingenuity by the troops. The UA as a whole is incapable of any real offensive.
The UA as a whole is incapable of any real offensive.
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True. A UAV is not like a tank.
But a UAV would clear out WWI style entrenched russian troops better than would a tank—and with much less risk to the operators.
Here’s a loaded question for you. Do you think that a successful war will entrench or dismantle all the worst aspects of Ukrainian government?
“The UA as a whole is incapable of any real offensive.”
The Russian forces therefor, must be made capable of real retreat, collapse or surrender - Or Just gradually killed off in place.