Trudge

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, exactly. The soviet defensive doctrine is partially inefficient because they wanted the entire operational area to be hardened without a specific weak point to exploit or breakthrough. The offensive army is forced to Trudge ๐Ÿ˜‰ through the entire region.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Your own map shows fortifications all over the theater. Yes, there's more concentrated towards the front naturally. Are you talking about that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That's exactly what I'm talking about. How is that a line to break through? It's a mesh of defensive fortifications miles deep.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

It's not exactly a line. It's miles and miles of defensive fortifications, entrenchments, units, and supply lines in a myriad configurations. There's no breaking through it in a traditional sense. Like I said earlier, the entire doctrine of warfare is different, like how the US armed forces doctrine is based on aerial support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem of that approach is that winter is coming soon and battles will soon ground to a halt. Which will give Russians the time to build up their defensive layers again.

Spring offensive of 2024 will commence afterwards. And then the spring offensive of 2025, 2026, 2027...

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Unless the Russians abandoned all of good Soviet military doctrine (which is quite possible since they're so virulently anti-communist), that is the furthest from the truth possible.

The Soviet military doctrine has been Deep Operation since the founding of the nation, where there is no single hard battlefront, instead keeping the combat line deep and flexible. Unless there is significant evidence to the contrary, I would assume that the operational paradigm for the Russian military remains the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They're 10% positive on the West? Thank you for this valuable information comrade. We'll be sending them back to the reeducation center for ideological training purposes.

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