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Fully professional armies are no match for modern warfare
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. This is interesting due to the entirely deserved Russian reputation for fielding an armed rabble. Link goes to an undated document which was written in 2023. [ColonelCassad] The American military academy US Army War College (which accepts military personnel with the rank of lieutenant colonel or higher) published a short analytical note based on lessons learned from combat operations in Ukraine.  The main idea is that losses in a large-scale war are expected to be so large that the current formula of a fully professional army will not cope with them and it is necessary to think about the partial return of compulsory military service. Daily casualties are expected to be approximately 3,600. The American army in its current form is categorically not ready for this. Over 20 years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has lost 50,000 personnel, and in a war like in Ukraine, these losses will be suffered in just two weeks. original source in English https://t.me/npo_dvina/11593 - zinc Do you remember not long ago there were times when they said that the future behind small, compact, high-tech armies. But the war in Ukraine changed everything. Posted by: badanov 2023-09-19 |
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