Posted on 04/02/2022 9:17:02 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
I liked it. :^)
Actually, the tactic was used from day one
These Ukie missile snipers need some aluminum covered blankets that runners get at the end of a long race. This can be improvised in Ukraine with aluminum foil.
All to protect them from infrared cameras from Rus planes and helicopters above
Yes, but every day is Ground Hog Day(the Bill Murray movie!) for the media.
I see more and more how the Ukie guerrillas and Ukie army are like our Revolutionary War forces that drove out the British King George. We had a man with a musket behind every tree.
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Which brings us back to the battlefield at Saratoga, at around 11 a.m. on Oct. 7, 1777.
Sgt. Timothy Murphy’s third shot found its target. It squarely hit British Gen. Simon Fraser in his belly, who probably never dreamed he was in danger of being shot from so far away, at least not 300 yards. Murphy’s bullet created one of the most painful of battle injuries, a stomach wound. As he lay dying, Fraser spoke of seeing the American rifleman who shot him, far off in the distance.
When they saw their leader fall and get dragged off the battlefield, British troops panicked, broke ranks and soon fell back in retreat. The tide of battle was reversed. The loss of Gen. Fraser, explained his boss, Gen. Burgoyne, “helped to turn the fate of the day.” Ten days later, he and 6,000 British troops surrendered to the Americans, handing them a spectacular victory.
Proper headline: Anti-tank tactics 101. Lesson # 23.
Good work, Zhang.
Tried that. Didn’t work.
Too cold, polar bears, funny accent.
Tactics 101, hardly news to any fighting person.
Shoot, move, & communicate.
Whoosh n Vamoose!
Smite n Flight
“Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism”
And one of their ‘special services’ are paid trolls and the useful idiots who echo and amplify the official narratives that serve Moscow.
“Glad they let everyone know their MO.”
Which is abundantly obvious to observers and sadly immaterial to the Russians who adamantly refuse to abandon Soviet-era tactics.
The Russians went into this ill-considered adventure under the false impression that they’d be welcomed into Ukraine by the very same people they’ve been demonizing as “Nazis” for the past twenty years. They were not welcomed and were instead greeted with death both at the hands of the Ukrainians and by the inescapable facts of Russian tactical incompetence.
The Russians wanted the Ukrainians to engage in tank battles and the Ukrainians instead sent infantry out to slaughter the Russian tankers.
The Russian armor time and again rode into action without infantry to protect them and time and again they got killed and the Ukrainians inherited all manner of abandoned Russian equipment. Give it six months and the Ukrainians will have more Russian tanks than Russia does.
Where the hell is the Russian air cover? Once again the idiot Russians are slaves to Soviet tactics in which aircraft are wasted as mere airborne artillery instead of being used to amplify the movement of ground forces. The Russian air units are using unguided munitions while the Ukrainians are destroying said air units with precision weaponry.
All this to say that telling the Russians how the Ukrainians are winning is irrelevant because the Russians are obviously too stupid or too arrogant to accept the fact that seven decades of Soviet tactical beliefs are WRONG.
Now the Russians have given up on conquering Ukraine and instead are trying to just slice off a portion of it. And that’s going to fail because the emboldened and motivated Ukrainians are going to slaughter their way through the remaining Russian invaders until they retake their country...likely to include Crimea since it’s being used as a base for offensive operations against Ukraine.
Russia is hosed. By the end of the summer they’ll be ousted from all of Ukraine and from all of Crimea, as well. I won’t be at all surprised if the Ukes even slice off parts of Russia as buffers to ensure their future security.
Further, within one or two years of Russia’s defeat in this war look for Ukraine to join NATO along with both Finland and Sweden who are expected to join NATO this year.
[The Parthian, or Parting Shot was taken backwards by cavalry, while they were being pursued by other cavalry. The Parthians, and other Steppe horsemen, like the later Mongols, tried to draw their opponents into chasing them, by various ruses, to use that tactic.]
Boom and Vroom!
:^)
Shatter/Splatter and Scatter!
Yes aggressive infantry patrols and combat engineers to remove mines and IEDs are essential in this environment. Those are NOT fun jobs. Of course riding in an armored vehicle ceases to be a fun job when hit by a ballistic device.
Lambaste and make haste.
CC
Powerful —
“Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]”
I am going to get a bit incendiary here —
The Clinton/Obama/Biden continuum has remained aligned generationally with pre formal to present formal Putin policies.
There has been significant evidence, and thorough analysis, which has been significantly cut off (with some analysts being penalized for revealing the “game”), revealing the same exact strategies (links below), being jointly and collusively used, between Moscow and predominantly leftists politicians, and political cover provided in DC.
As such, some in the know, have been silenced, and other less principled people scared to speak up.
When the word “captured” is used, it is not stated lightly.
There does exist strong evidence of GRU and FSB interconnectivity with governments, foundations, and leftist NGO’s throughout Latin America, involved in all aspects and organization of illegal immigration to all points across the US.
The following examples of foreign “immigration as long term weapon” activity has been well known on our side of the pond since the late 1990’s, and if the truth could be revealed, would be yet another powerful piece of evidence revealing joint US leftist/RU conspiracy to neutralize and destroy the US from within,
AND — “...introduce geopolitical *disorder* into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus *destabilizing internal political processes* in the U.S.”
Russian Strategy of mass illegal immigration Alas a weapon for political destabilization of foreign powers -
UA Army War College -
Don’t like ABC at all, this is bigger than ABC, and I am a bit surprised they would even circulate this article, as it potentially sheds light on a larger ongoing NORTHCOM/RU problem involving leftist political office holders in the US -
Immigration As Long Term Weapon
“”It’s a point of leverage that Moscow could use in its overall effort to break the EU and NATO, and compel cooperation or acquiescence on areas that are higher priority to the Kremlin: Eastern Europe,” says Emily Estelle, research manager with the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project.”
“In 2015, in the wake of international outcry over Moscow’s invasion and annexation of parts of Ukraine the year before, Russia inexplicably began opening normally well-guarded border crossings to Finland and Norway. The move allowed thousands of refugees, including those fleeing unrest in Central Asia, to spill over into Western nations.”
“Russia’s interests and strategy in Libya has more to do with filling the holes left by the U.S. and extending control over the Mediterranean Sea,” says Oded Berkowitz, an Israeli intelligence analyst and deputy chief intelligence officer with the MAX consultancy. *Mass migration is among the knock-on effects Russia considers as a part of its intervention, which it primarily focuses on projecting military strength and securing military and trade routes. “I’m not sure if it’s a primary objective or just a helpful byproduct.”
“In 2016, the NATO Supreme Commander General Philip Breedlove observed Russia and Syria were using mass migration as a “non-military means to create divisions in the NATO alliance and Europe” and “destabilize and undermine the continent.” As Russia controls the tap to mass migration via Libya, we may see that merely the threat of mass migration will make General Breedlove’s observations applicable once again.”
Not spoken of here again, are other significant NORTHCOM and AFRICOM intentional refugee hot spots —
While I was deployed to the Kenyan/Somali border, there were already more than 1.5 million refugees in Northern Kenya (in one camp!), due to conflicts fueled directly by both Russia and China. Russia would go to almost any extent to reestablish Red Sea control in an effort neutralize the US, but also to supply the Huithi’s war against SA from Yemen, directly from across the Red Sea.
We had almost no way to even deal with what they were doing in Ethiopia and Sudan. (As well, our main issue was the mass slaughter of both Kenyan, European, and American citizens by Al Shabaab, along Kenya’s Central Eastern coastal flank.)
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