@TheStudyofWar The Russian lack of infantry dismounts in their heavily mechanized & "Ghost Soldier" ridden Motor-Rifle Regiments means they cannot hold back wide front Ukrainian infantry infiltration that has superior Western night vision gear.

In the day the Ukrainians use drones to spot
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@TheStudyofWar ...Russian AFV check points. Then at night the Ukrainians infiltrate where Russians are not.

Then the next day Ukrainian infantry use drone directed artillery to kill the check points. Thus forcing Russian vehicle movement into the infiltrated missile teams.

Rinse & repeat.
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@TheStudyofWar When the Russians try a village strong point, you follow on with Ukrainian AFV's.

Then infiltrating more Ukrainian infantry around the strong point while the AFV's hold Russian attention.

The Frontage is simply too wide & Ukrainian night vision too good for the Russians
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@TheStudyofWar ...to stop these "Nibble them to death with ducks" Ukrainian combined arms drone-ATGM armed infantry-artillery infiltration tactics.

It is not fast, but it is low casualty...for the Ukrainians.

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May 17
If true, this UK Guardian article is seriously important at the political-military level.🧵

Short form:

Putin is playing troop commander instead of President of the Russian Federation.

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theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
What that means is as follows:

1. Putin is not doing his job as President.
2. Putin is not paying attention to his own personal security.
3. Putin is preventing competent Russian military commanders from doing anything right.

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People mostly attribute #3 to Hitler, but the more recent example was U.S. Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson during Vietnam playing company commander from the White House.

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May 16
@HN_Schlottman @KofmanMichael @KC_Guy ,@HN_Schlottman as @teuraskarju pointed out, Soviet/Russian logistical doctrine always assumed sufficient manual labor will magically appear to meet 'standards'

This magical thinking is akin to the Russian assumption that a 70% manned MR-Regiment could generate two 100% BTG
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@HN_Schlottman @KofmanMichael @KC_Guy @teuraskarju Since two fully manned BTG are 66% of a nominally 70% manned regiment, Russian doctrine was B.S.

The sort of load & unload rates US Army trucks achieve is through the heavy use of boxes, pallets, flatracks, containers, and mechanized material handling equipment built into trucks
@HN_Schlottman @KofmanMichael @KC_Guy @teuraskarju The utter lack of cranes, all terrain forklifts, and container handling material handling equipment in Russian TO&E plus the modern Russian Army's shortage of bodies for the manual handling of cargo means there is no way Russia can move the tonnage
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May 16
This is a pretty important question I'll try and answer.👇

Thread🧵

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The lethal effects of artillery were not put on a really scientific basis until WW2.

There were lots of reasons for this involving money & politics I won't go into.

When the operational analysts to their first bite. They made charts like this mapping fragment impacts.
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The previous chart wasn't accurate because because it mapped a static detonation.

Analysts knew these maps were wrong because of damage inflicted in WW2.

It took early vacuum tube digital computers in the 1950's to accurately model how velocity altered that frag-pattern.
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May 16
It looks like @PhillipsPOBrien just saved me a really long thread measuring my predictions versus on the ground reality regards Russian trucks.

Let's do a different logistical-history thread🧵instead.

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ALEX VERSHININ Nov 2021 article on Russian truck logistics has proven to be the 'Logistical Bible' of this latest Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Ukraine has prioritized killing Russian trucks because the way to beat the Russian Army strategically & operationally is by killing its truck fleet.

Over 1,500 of the ~4,000 trucks Russia had at the start of the war are destroyed with the
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May 15
@RandomAcademic @sjellmann If you have not read Lester W. Grau & Charles K. Bartle's "The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age." Now is the time to go look it up with an internet search.

UAV artillery spotting tactics are universal, and the Ukrainians are better at it than the Russians.
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@RandomAcademic @sjellmann This is mainly because the existential threat of Russian invasion focused the Ukrainian military on "good enough today" is better than "perfect next year."

That means Ukrainian artillery spotting drones cost between 1/10th and 1/100th what a similar drone costs
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@RandomAcademic @sjellmann ...in other militaries.

As a result, Ukrainians are much more willing to risk losing any individual drone, for any reason, than other militaries.

Distributed processing networks and the willingness to take risk is what makes Ukraine's artillery so effective.

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May 14
This thread🧵 will be my Ukraine War overview.

Russia is losing 2/3 of a battalion combat group of equipment a day and we are into day 79.

That's over 52.6 full battalion equipment sets out of the 120 initially sent into Ukraine & ~180 over all in the Russian Ground Forces

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IOW, 43% of the total committed Russian mechanized combat vehicle fleet and likely the best 29% of the total Russian combat vehicle fleet have been destroyed or captured.

Percentage casualty rate wise, this is the institutional equivalent of the III Armored Corps in Ft Hood
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... Texas catching a high yield tac-nuke for the US Army.

Per the Oryx visual compilations, Ukraine is losing one vehicle destroyed or captured for every 3.5 Russian vehicles.

If the current Ukrainian casualty rates match the 2014-2015 fighting.

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