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The Financial Times has recently named the five main lessons from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The article was based on the interviews with various Western military analysts and experts who attempted to draw the main conclusions for the world and the two countries involved in the hostilities.
One of the key conclusions drawn from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is that after many years of peace, the “big war has returned” to the international sphere, which means that the importance of the industrial potential of the warring countries has increased. The ability of weapons production and their reserves are one of the key to success of fighting.
At the same time, Western experts acknowledged that combat capability of Ukrainian forces is dependant from foreign supplies. This is the second conclusion from the war in Ukraine made by the experts. The key question is whether Western allies will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, in what quantity and of what quality.
The third lesson was mainly dedicated to Moscow. As quality is more important than quantity, WEstern exports claimed that Good logistics, a large number of troops and advanced military equipment are “worthless” without the good intelligence and leadership. At the same time, the experts claimed that Moscow drew the lesson. The situation on the front lines changed after General Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of Russian troops in Ukraine. According to a military expert on Russia from the Rand Corporation think tank, Surovikin is “probably the most competent commander that Russia has put in place.” Surovikin managed to strengthen the front lines by the mobilized servicemen and organized “a successful withdrawal from the strategically important southern city of Kherson, where Russian troops were under threat of encirclement,” what reduced Ukraine’s chances of a successful winter counter offensive operation, the report reads.
On the other hand, the experts pointed out that the Ukrainian military is now facing difficult times. They suffer heavy losses, many of them are insufficiently trained, some of Ukrainian units are suffering from extreme fatigue and the lack of weapons and ammunition. However, Ukrainian servicemen are still more motivated than the Russians.
The fourth lesson drawn from the war is that the support of civil society is highly important for military success.
The fifth conclusion, which is “perhaps the most important lesson” of the conflict, is that the battle is fought not only on the battlefield and the course of the conflict depends not only of military equipment. According to the FT, Western countries should reflect on how the concept of peace and war has changed in general after the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine.
It’s amazing how people get paid lots of money to state the obvious. Conclusion five was slightly obscure. I suppose they didn’t want to go into details about blowing up pipelines, terrorism, propaganda, economic destruction and regime change.
Like you Robin, I can’t understand anyone writing such an obvious article. It’s like I was just reading an empty page.
Quality is more important than quantity, remember this folks. Russia made its operation with only 100,000 well-trained men and managed to capture 20% of nazi Ukraine’s territory.
Thats 5 obvious points everyone knew from humanity previous wars. Once again the lame stream media of 2022 is incapable of doing anything that actually requires brain, reserch and critical thinking
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Yeah The Financial Times, that hub of military strategy.
The financial times is the ultimate shithole of capitalist imperialism led by Jews Martin Woolf and Gideon Rachman who are the voice of their rabbi masters.
lack of points
Corruptness of all the countries – USA, Israel, Nato etc. erased any chance of a more corrupt country – Ukraine, from having a legitimate supply line { weapons, ammo, medical, transportation etc. } and paid soldiers. Of course, the Ukrainian military command was as dumb as a rock when it came to adjusting to a Russian army, which is fighting in their front yard with supported mostly unlimited supply line. Fighting a large army like Russia means you have to be very very intelligent and know when to negotiate.
There is much we could emphasize on but Corruption and stupid Kiev decisions only show that Ukraine lost it’s sovereignty in 2014 when the US /Israel installed a foreign government. Ukraine, as a country was doomed from then on. Borderland , is what it was always meant to be !
If was a borderland but the germans/ austrians/ poles reinvented it as eternal wound next to russia and the british/ us have further perfected it. This does not mean anything good for the people living there. They will only see peace if they leave cause eternal conflict is the sole porpose of this modern urkaine.
This is total BULLSHIT: “the support of civil society is highly important for military success.”. “Civil society” means SHIT, they are SOROS NGOs. The people has no way to mount an opposition: otherwise the blob known as”deep state”, the beaurocracy, could not exploit the forever shrinking body of living workforce.
Today I just spent over an hour trying to to get an ambulance for an elderly man that had collapsed in the street, he was malnourished and going into hyperthermia. This is the Glorious Britain that can spend billions on killing Ukrainians (sadly it is mostly pressed Ukrainians that are dying) while citizens die in the streets of the UK for lack of basic medical care.