Fascinating 🧵👇:
The narrative that NATO training is the main cause for Ukraine's mil. performance says perhaps more about our own perceptions of the (inflated) military value of special operations forces (where a lot of training efforts went into) than broader mil. reality.
The narrative that NATO training is the main cause for Ukraine's mil. performance says perhaps more about our own perceptions of the (inflated) military value of special operations forces (where a lot of training efforts went into) than broader mil. reality.
https://twitter.com/Jack_Watling/status/1522017525143416832
US/NATO training certainly is playing an important role in many ways. E.g., I do think mission command executed by more junior officers the first couple of days of the war played a very important role at the tactical level in coordinating tactical retreats/overall defense.
One reason why some analysts (including myself) underestimated the combat effectiveness of the UAF is what @Jack_Watling points out re. NCO corps: the UAF were in the middle of substantial & incomplete mil. reforms usually...
...not a good position to be in when fighting a major military power even when your force has substantial combat experience.
*Our inflated perceptions of the military value of special operations forces relative to regular forces.
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