100% approval to Don's statements regarding the consequences of having a not a unified command inside the Ukrainian forces. This is completely nuts.
Jumping over divisional structure and going directly to a corps won't work either. People who advocate for such a solution have absolutely no clue or are bribed idiots.
The human mind is capable only for a limited amount of tasks to handle (and of course their are individual different capabilities). This is one of the reasons, why also a divisional structure is needed.
A coprs commander will be never able to handle 40 brigades directly. It is just another version of that stupid micromanagement obsession.
Just another addition (as I am reading part 3). The GenStab-U itself cannot act for more than 2 fronts and was permanently "forgetting" the southeast, but it "dreams" at the same time of a corps commander handling 40 brigades at the same time. This is completely absurd.
Agreed. Corps command isnt enough. A corps, divisional and brigade command is a tried and tested formula. It works. It is utter madness that such a command structure still hasn't been implemented. Ukraine has enough problems of logistics and man power. It doesn't need its own generals causing issues as well.
By the way, thank you for mentioning this cops-brigade new structure. I hope to be wrong, but my feeling is that it is imitation of changes, and would only cause losing more time, unfortunatelly.
Back when I wore the uniform, we had Liaison Officers (LNO) who helped coordinate this at the BN level. (US Army). I did it in combat and it involved alot of driving and radio comms, going to sister unit command meetings, and getting to know the neighbors. Yeah, yeah, the UA is managing things in Soviet style, but they don't have to, right?
On Toretsk you wrote: «Only a couple of days after Ukraine cleared out the southern half of Toretsk and pushed back the Russians into the center of town, the Russians reclaimed much of that ground» Suprising news, any explanation of why?
A very intersting comment on causes of causality here. You wrote: «Russian artillery is still causing about 80% of Ukrainian casualties, according to doctors at aid stations, but due to uneven artillery ammo supplies, Ukrainian soldiers in some sectors say that their drones are causing up to 80% of the Russian casualties•» Indeed very loopsided causes of injuiries, and presumably death. Are glide bombs included in the «artillery»? Any way, seems to me that Ukraine should really step up is attack om ammunition dumpes.
The Ukrainian figures are based on reports at aid stations that I've seen repeated many times. They didn't mention bombs. It's possible that the number only refers to casualties that they see and does not refer to the dead.
Thanks. Intersting and again underscores the need to stop Russian artillery as well as providing Ukraine with more. The drone Numbers are intersting and frankly quite surprising, but shows the imoortance of drones of course. These are little bits of facts that helps understand the wars better.
I suppose that the high ratio of Ukraine drones causing Russian losses is due to the lack of artillery rounds. Any way, these drone teams are scarily efficient.
Thanks
100% approval to Don's statements regarding the consequences of having a not a unified command inside the Ukrainian forces. This is completely nuts.
Jumping over divisional structure and going directly to a corps won't work either. People who advocate for such a solution have absolutely no clue or are bribed idiots.
The human mind is capable only for a limited amount of tasks to handle (and of course their are individual different capabilities). This is one of the reasons, why also a divisional structure is needed.
A coprs commander will be never able to handle 40 brigades directly. It is just another version of that stupid micromanagement obsession.
Just another addition (as I am reading part 3). The GenStab-U itself cannot act for more than 2 fronts and was permanently "forgetting" the southeast, but it "dreams" at the same time of a corps commander handling 40 brigades at the same time. This is completely absurd.
Agreed. Corps command isnt enough. A corps, divisional and brigade command is a tried and tested formula. It works. It is utter madness that such a command structure still hasn't been implemented. Ukraine has enough problems of logistics and man power. It doesn't need its own generals causing issues as well.
By the way, thank you for mentioning this cops-brigade new structure. I hope to be wrong, but my feeling is that it is imitation of changes, and would only cause losing more time, unfortunatelly.
Back when I wore the uniform, we had Liaison Officers (LNO) who helped coordinate this at the BN level. (US Army). I did it in combat and it involved alot of driving and radio comms, going to sister unit command meetings, and getting to know the neighbors. Yeah, yeah, the UA is managing things in Soviet style, but they don't have to, right?
On Toretsk you wrote: «Only a couple of days after Ukraine cleared out the southern half of Toretsk and pushed back the Russians into the center of town, the Russians reclaimed much of that ground» Suprising news, any explanation of why?
Only a guess: There were videos of Azov brigade drone attacks but I didn't see any of ground attacks. Maybe they were withdrawn.
Ok, surprising, but certainly possible, especially seems no figthing seems to have been mentioned.
A very intersting comment on causes of causality here. You wrote: «Russian artillery is still causing about 80% of Ukrainian casualties, according to doctors at aid stations, but due to uneven artillery ammo supplies, Ukrainian soldiers in some sectors say that their drones are causing up to 80% of the Russian casualties•» Indeed very loopsided causes of injuiries, and presumably death. Are glide bombs included in the «artillery»? Any way, seems to me that Ukraine should really step up is attack om ammunition dumpes.
The Ukrainian figures are based on reports at aid stations that I've seen repeated many times. They didn't mention bombs. It's possible that the number only refers to casualties that they see and does not refer to the dead.
Thanks. Intersting and again underscores the need to stop Russian artillery as well as providing Ukraine with more. The drone Numbers are intersting and frankly quite surprising, but shows the imoortance of drones of course. These are little bits of facts that helps understand the wars better.
I suppose that the high ratio of Ukraine drones causing Russian losses is due to the lack of artillery rounds. Any way, these drone teams are scarily efficient.