Thread by @Taurevanime

And now it's time for the lessons learned. According to the Wall Street Journal.

Let us see how wrong they get it!

I highlighted the key lesson of this war. But almost everyone ignores it because logistics isn't sexy. It's the shooty pew pew stuff.

Also General Patrick Sanders is wrong to say Britain has learned or adapted from this war. Since it has changed nothing about its pre-war plans.

So far so good with the article.

But again general you show that you may actually get it. But you are changing nothing for the better. The British army will be smaller than 5 years ago and less well equipped with yet more capabilities retired without replacement.

As the meme goes, war never changes.

The Russians seem to have realized this by not gutting their ability to build massive weapon stockpiles in short order so as to save some money.

And remember, US stockpiles would likely be depleted if they were in Russia's shoes in this war.

Yes these same open-source analysts have been claiming this since basically week 1 of the war. And time again they have been proven wrong. Stop believing them and stop selling their cope.

This is a very political way of saying, "We fucked up and we fucked up BAD!"

Because guess what. It isn't easy to set up new munitions factories. Especially if you do not already have the skillset. As is the case for most NATO members today.

Wars do tend to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

Nothing has truly fundamentally changed since WW1. Every weapon system as used today existed back then in some form or another. That is why every person telling you a weapon will revolutionize warfare is a liar.

This wasn't the case at all. Russia was able to get it's armour right up to the edge of the city and halted there. Because a force of 20k-40k by estimates vs one of 100+k in a city is foolish.

The greatest loss Russia sustained was from Ukrainian artillery, not hand held weapons

This is what I always talked about. You need MASS to win.

And stop lying general. You are cutting the size by 10k men. Halving the tank fleet. Retiring the IFV fleet without replacement. Getting APCs only armed with .50 HMGs.

This isn't mass and you know it.

Okay this is just hilarious.

The TB2 is $5 million a pop. Hardly inexpensive. And even then it's proven about as effective as strapping sensors and PGMs to a Cessna. Not very.

And Ukrainians in fact now refuse to use the Switchblade or take the NLAW. They do not work for them.

Another thing I have been harping on about for years.

Guess we'll see the return of the landline, just in fibre optic form now.

Also hard kill APS like Trophy emit radar. So they are a massive detection flare to a peer enemy.

Blablabla better tighter integration of the branches. Heard it every decade.

Hmmm is the reason you were expecting them to fail in February because you were actually training a Gladio like stay behind force? That is certainly how you equipped the Ukrainians. And who too no less.

A RAND study from some time ago looked at when quantity always beats quality. And it is at 9-1 or greater odds.
The fact Russia is fighting with a smaller force than Ukraine is the only reason Ukraine is still in the fight

And that final quote is something @ArmchairW would like