Thanks Tom, but personally I still think that the Kherson withdrawal was negotiated between the two sides. Even after it became very clear that the Russian were withdrawing, the ZSU didn’t try to destroy the remaining units.
In Kharkiv, the routes available for withdrawal (rout) were plentiful. Also, there were not that many troops there to begin with. The frontline in this area has been thinned out on the Russian side. What troops were there, mostly were not of good quality.
In war, all the important things are simple. And all the simple things are hard. Two of Murphy's Laws of Warfare. And people just don't get how hard some of this stuff is. "Pulling back? How hard is that to do? And the Ukrainians lost men and equipment doing it? Obviously they are incompetent and deserve to lose." I heard that a lot from lots of folks who have never worn a uniform for a single day. I wish people would actually read more stuff like this before opening their mouths.
Thanks Tom, but personally I still think that the Kherson withdrawal was negotiated between the two sides. Even after it became very clear that the Russian were withdrawing, the ZSU didn’t try to destroy the remaining units.
Apparently in Kharkiv region they forgot to coordinate the withdrawal of Russian troops:)
In Kharkiv, the routes available for withdrawal (rout) were plentiful. Also, there were not that many troops there to begin with. The frontline in this area has been thinned out on the Russian side. What troops were there, mostly were not of good quality.
The theory of positional warfare, condensed and simplified https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/positional-warfare-alexander-svechin%E2%80%99s-strategy
Great work. Love the details
The Dunkirk picture definitely has some... Khm unintentional pornography in it. But it's depicting the French, so probably OK :)
It's interesting that, the smaller scale the operation, the more details we get in this article
In war, all the important things are simple. And all the simple things are hard. Two of Murphy's Laws of Warfare. And people just don't get how hard some of this stuff is. "Pulling back? How hard is that to do? And the Ukrainians lost men and equipment doing it? Obviously they are incompetent and deserve to lose." I heard that a lot from lots of folks who have never worn a uniform for a single day. I wish people would actually read more stuff like this before opening their mouths.