This 2013 John Parshall lecture for the WW2 Museum on the Russian tank production system spends a great deal of time talking about Kahn's contributions in that respect.
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Also pay a lot of attention to Parshall's comments on the WW2 run down Russian railway system & railway rolling stocks.
We are seeing parallels in Putin's Russia right now.
Look at the second bullet of this recently announced $1.2 billion #Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package because that @noclador 🧵 describes that 2nd bullet.
This air defense command and control system is vitally important for Ukraine to absorb because it's legacy air defenses were built on this Soviet integrated air defense system network model. (graphic)
Sectors (SOC) were like a mainframe or minicomputer with input terminals. 3/
This @ChrisO_wiki translation is extremely important for understanding how many more KIA to WIA the Russian Mobiks are taking in Ukraine compared to Western intelligence estimates.
Short form:
Seriously wounded who are not evacuated to advanced medical care mostly die
In war, one in five (20%) of unarmored men die immediately when hit by artillery fragments or small arms fire.
Slightly over one in seven (15%) of seriously wounded died of wounds if they are untreated.
The table below is the US military experience with seriously wounded.
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The "Seriously Wounded" definition changes as medical techniques & technology improved over time.
The germ theory of disease, surgical resection of the intestines plus better logistics for casualty evacuation & providing whole blood are why the bars in Fig. 30 above change.
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And there is no such company of similar military capability inside the US or any other Western military.
There are orders of magnitude differences between masses of drones as expendable information/lethal munitions versus drone "platforms" costing 1,000's of times more. 1/
This is a very useful thread to read comparing NATO defense doctrine, OSINT on Russian ground force capabilities in Ukraine, and what Ukraine can attack with.
Short form: 800km front, not enough Russian troops.
The Russian and Western defense analysts inability to do basic math on the size of Ukraine's trained military manpower pool of ~730,000 Donbas combat veterans as of Feb. 2022 was another verse in that story.🤦♂️
Western intelligence insistence on a one Russian death to four wounded is very much an example of where this 'failure to accept reality" lives.
It is better for an intelligence analysts' career to be wrong in a crowd that correct and alone.🤦♂️
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21st century Drone warfare is different from traditional 20th century land combat. It's simply far more accurate and kills more people with fewer shells.
It has different casualty ratios to match.
Just like naval combat with WW2 Kamikazes had a 1 KIA to 1 WIA ratio.
For every US security assistance package to Ukraine, look for the logistical basics and not the "bling."
There are three lines that fit that frame in the latest package that are key to the forthcoming Ukrainian offensives, 1st "Trucks & trailers to transport heavy equipment"
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...that means these puppies.⬇️
The Oshkosh M1070 HET AKA tank transporter is a key link in the mechanized recovery/logistics supply chain.