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23-10-2024, 09:51 PM
Reports have emerged in recent months of particularly savage casualties among Russian troops fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, as the Russian military bids to capture as much territory as it can, possibly with one eye on a potential ceasefire deal. Much will depend on the outcome of the US election. Donald Trump has said he will end military aid to Ukraine if elected, bringing the war to an end in “one day”.
This mean Kyiv will be forced to cede territory along current lines of occupation. Analysts have commented this one of motivations for Ukraine’s Kursk offensive inside Russia in August, since territory captured by Ukraine would be a valuable bargaining chip in negotiations, mean Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine has been particularly bloody, w/US intelligence reports of casualty nos up to 1,000 per day, dead & wounded, calls to mind “meat grinder” tactics of previous Russian & Soviet military campaigns.
The “meat grinder” is a collective battlefield approach that values high troop density and intensity to overwhelm the enemy. It is a uniquely Russian approach 9-decades making, consisting of a combination two much older strategies, namely attrition & mass mobilisation. At heart of attrition is notion of abundance opponent is physically & psychologically exhausted by the sheer force of numbers, wave after wave of cannon fodder are relentlessly deployed. Mass mobilisation is large-scale movement of troops to a particular loc with intention of overpowering the adversary. Neither approach recognises intrinsic value of individual lives.
Outmatched Russian undertook war of attrition against Napoleon’s invasion 1812. Century later, Russian empire generated enormous casualties but successfully launch large-scale counterattack on 1st world war.. “Meat grinder” is embedded in Soviet tactics. Poor “quantity has a quality” has apocryphal roots in Stalin’s leadership in WWII. Battles for Stalingrad & now Kursk involved deployment millions of soldiers, Soviet army eventually crushed Nazi blitzkrieg through sheer weight of numbers. Noted: Victories in pass don't guarantee future success for Putin & his military planners, dead & disabled bodies of soldiers are killed is collateral damage estimated more than 100,000 Russian troops died since 32 mths ago. Reported Russian casualty rates are now rising rapidly as military’s increased reliance on inexperienced soldiers.
This mean Kyiv will be forced to cede territory along current lines of occupation. Analysts have commented this one of motivations for Ukraine’s Kursk offensive inside Russia in August, since territory captured by Ukraine would be a valuable bargaining chip in negotiations, mean Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine has been particularly bloody, w/US intelligence reports of casualty nos up to 1,000 per day, dead & wounded, calls to mind “meat grinder” tactics of previous Russian & Soviet military campaigns.
The “meat grinder” is a collective battlefield approach that values high troop density and intensity to overwhelm the enemy. It is a uniquely Russian approach 9-decades making, consisting of a combination two much older strategies, namely attrition & mass mobilisation. At heart of attrition is notion of abundance opponent is physically & psychologically exhausted by the sheer force of numbers, wave after wave of cannon fodder are relentlessly deployed. Mass mobilisation is large-scale movement of troops to a particular loc with intention of overpowering the adversary. Neither approach recognises intrinsic value of individual lives.
Outmatched Russian undertook war of attrition against Napoleon’s invasion 1812. Century later, Russian empire generated enormous casualties but successfully launch large-scale counterattack on 1st world war.. “Meat grinder” is embedded in Soviet tactics. Poor “quantity has a quality” has apocryphal roots in Stalin’s leadership in WWII. Battles for Stalingrad & now Kursk involved deployment millions of soldiers, Soviet army eventually crushed Nazi blitzkrieg through sheer weight of numbers. Noted: Victories in pass don't guarantee future success for Putin & his military planners, dead & disabled bodies of soldiers are killed is collateral damage estimated more than 100,000 Russian troops died since 32 mths ago. Reported Russian casualty rates are now rising rapidly as military’s increased reliance on inexperienced soldiers.
