Nato combined arms

Troops are trained to a high-level to be able to understand the entire battlefield and operate in coordination with air, armour and artillery on the fly Commanders get troops in flanking positions by using fast communications and high-tech weapons to rapidly and accurately strike threats as they appear. Emphasis is on speed, aggression and outmanoeuvring the enemy

It’s amazing how arrogant and delusional they still are despite having had almost three years now to observe what happens when you try to use those kinds of tactics. The reason why the Russians don’t fight like that in this war is not because they can’t but because it’s a bad way to fight in this war! These tactics may work in a short war and against an enemy who is vastly inferior but they don’t work in a near-peer war of attrition.

This isn’t speculative or theoretical, we saw it happen. We saw what happened when Ukraine tried to do that during their vaunted offensives. They employed precisely those kinds of NATO tactics and all it led to was them finding themselves in fire bags and taking horrific casualties. Even if they did manage to rapidly take some land, was the long term cost of that worth it? Has it put them into a better position strategically in the war today?

These western commentators are so convinced of their own superiority, still believe their own bullshit despite evidence to the contrary so much that they need to jump through hoops to explain why their “superior” tactics are not working. And if the western leaders and military decision makers take their cues from these analysts and think the same way then it’s no wonder they are losing and will keep losing because they refuse to learn.