Alright, new historical logistics thread🧵
based on this RFEL retweet below.
It will be a VERY grim thread laying a marker against future events.😖😖😖
based on this RFEL retweet below.
It will be a VERY grim thread laying a marker against future events.😖😖😖
https://twitter.com/bruceogi1/status/1504951922104672256
There is a medical evacuation BMP in that Radio Free Europe video.
There is a part where the reporter is interviewing a Ukrainian talking about a mitten full of Ukrainian coins that Russian's looted.
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There is a part where the reporter is interviewing a Ukrainian talking about a mitten full of Ukrainian coins that Russian's looted.
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Given that Ukrainian's stories from locals, my impression of the Russian Army northern column is that their foraging has reduced them to the same state as the Catholic armies of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany during the 30 years war (1618–1648).
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If we are following that historical analog. We have armed bands of Russians looting, raping & then killing Ukrainian witnesses.
Not many, maybe just a handful, but enough are out of control that the Russian Army there is disintegrating.
There are reasons Army's shoot
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Not many, maybe just a handful, but enough are out of control that the Russian Army there is disintegrating.
There are reasons Army's shoot
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...their own for looting in war.
"Good order and discipline" is extremely hard to attain & very, very, easy to lose when you go the route of living off the enemy's land.
Military foraging without murder & rape requires good NCO's and officers to control their men to take
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"Good order and discipline" is extremely hard to attain & very, very, easy to lose when you go the route of living off the enemy's land.
Military foraging without murder & rape requires good NCO's and officers to control their men to take
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... exactly what is needed & no more.
General George Washington did just that in the American Revolutionary War.
His troops gave American farmers near Valley Forge worthless Continental paper script or even more worthless Continental Army promissory notes saying the
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General George Washington did just that in the American Revolutionary War.
His troops gave American farmers near Valley Forge worthless Continental paper script or even more worthless Continental Army promissory notes saying the
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...Continental Congress would pay later.
But it was this thin veneer of payment, book keeping & the clear exercise of close military control that kept the Continental Army from becoming what Germany saw 1618–1648...
...Roving bands of looters & rapists.
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But it was this thin veneer of payment, book keeping & the clear exercise of close military control that kept the Continental Army from becoming what Germany saw 1618–1648...
...Roving bands of looters & rapists.
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The Russian Army does not have an NCO corps in the Western Army's sense of independent command authority.
Russian NCO's are simply the longest serving conscripts...and they have been foraging for six days away from officers.
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Russian NCO's are simply the longest serving conscripts...and they have been foraging for six days away from officers.
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And with evidence of Ukrainian coin filled Russian mittens, there is only one way this is going.
It is only a matter of time until we get a cellphone from a dead Russian conscript documenting it.😭😭😭
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It is only a matter of time until we get a cellphone from a dead Russian conscript documenting it.😭😭😭
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