That’s a mess, if true. Granted it looks like they decimated the better part of an orc division (10k casualties, maybe), but the exchange is still much too high for a glorified raid.
Not much point in trying ops like that if they can’t be adequately supported.
There are XY- (enter the number of your preference) of people warning about Ukrainian commanders that can't care less for the lives of their troops - and that since 2014, at least.
....and it's only now that either Syrsky or Zelensky began removing such commanders. Thus, a lot left to be done in this regards.
Fortunately most brigades are now too big to operate as a coherent formation, so brigade level commanders are almost functionaries now. The lower down the chain you go, the younger and less Soviet the leadership gets.
This is why I push for expanding the 12-20 best brigades into semi-divisions, each with several independent battlegroups about 2 battalions in size. Mass must be thought of in terms of firepower, not personnel. Everything important on the front line going forward will be done by small combined arms company-level groupings working in tandem, often across broad fronts.
The good news is that the older generation of leaders need to take a less and less active approach. Especially as brigades build out their own recruitment and even logistics infrastructure.
They can't do that because that would mean that a lots of troops aren't commanded by people for whom they've volunteered to serve.
....because too many volunteers lost the trust into commanders that do not care about them.
That's why units like the 3rd Assault have 'too many troops', and others can't scratch together even 1,000....
BTW, even if they could: they simply do not have the necessary equipment. Not even the utility vehicles. and medical equipment - not to talk about heavy arms.
And that's why 3rd Assault gets to expand, while others don't. People flow to quality. Transfers must be allowed. That'll help reveal the bad officers.
At some point you have to triage the modern kit and soldiers able and willing to go on offensive ops otherwise you've got a bunch of brigades with a single effective front line company, which is about how the orcs run things right now.
Frankly the Territorial Guard and light infantry brigades are often doing as well on the defense as many mechanized brigades if they have enough drone support.
If NATO would get its arse in gear and ship all available kit, triage wouldn't be necessary. But at some point you have to reorganize. And the war won't be won without offensive ops. Probably before next February, way the US is going.
BTW, RUMINT has it, the Marines lost 788 MIA and 262 KIA in the Krynky bridgehead...
That’s a mess, if true. Granted it looks like they decimated the better part of an orc division (10k casualties, maybe), but the exchange is still much too high for a glorified raid.
Not much point in trying ops like that if they can’t be adequately supported.
There are XY- (enter the number of your preference) of people warning about Ukrainian commanders that can't care less for the lives of their troops - and that since 2014, at least.
....and it's only now that either Syrsky or Zelensky began removing such commanders. Thus, a lot left to be done in this regards.
Fortunately most brigades are now too big to operate as a coherent formation, so brigade level commanders are almost functionaries now. The lower down the chain you go, the younger and less Soviet the leadership gets.
This is why I push for expanding the 12-20 best brigades into semi-divisions, each with several independent battlegroups about 2 battalions in size. Mass must be thought of in terms of firepower, not personnel. Everything important on the front line going forward will be done by small combined arms company-level groupings working in tandem, often across broad fronts.
The good news is that the older generation of leaders need to take a less and less active approach. Especially as brigades build out their own recruitment and even logistics infrastructure.
They can't do that because that would mean that a lots of troops aren't commanded by people for whom they've volunteered to serve.
....because too many volunteers lost the trust into commanders that do not care about them.
That's why units like the 3rd Assault have 'too many troops', and others can't scratch together even 1,000....
BTW, even if they could: they simply do not have the necessary equipment. Not even the utility vehicles. and medical equipment - not to talk about heavy arms.
And that's why 3rd Assault gets to expand, while others don't. People flow to quality. Transfers must be allowed. That'll help reveal the bad officers.
At some point you have to triage the modern kit and soldiers able and willing to go on offensive ops otherwise you've got a bunch of brigades with a single effective front line company, which is about how the orcs run things right now.
Frankly the Territorial Guard and light infantry brigades are often doing as well on the defense as many mechanized brigades if they have enough drone support.
If NATO would get its arse in gear and ship all available kit, triage wouldn't be necessary. But at some point you have to reorganize. And the war won't be won without offensive ops. Probably before next February, way the US is going.