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Russia invades Ukraine
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09-13-2022, 06:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-13-2022, 06:23 AM by The Real Marty. Edited 2 times in total.)
One of the fascinating things about this war is the flexibility of the Ukrainian military. Thousands of Ukrainian NCOs have been trained in the United States over the past 10 years, and their ability to adapt and make decision on their own is far superior to their counterparts in the Russian army.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Storie...ng-nation/ Training is responsible for Ukraine's greatest advantage over the Russian invaders. The Ukraine military ditched the old Soviet style of tactics and began emulating the West, and that included building a competent and empowered non-commissioned officer corps. "Working with the Ukrainians in terms of NCO leadership is something that we have done," Ryder said. "This is a strategic advantage in a lot of ways of the U.S. military and many Western militaries." Small Ukrainian units led by sergeants are making a difference on the battlefield. These units move faster and do more than the Russian enemies. But the really interesting thing is the informal bartering system between Ukrainian units, where they bypass any bureaucracy and trade weapons. They will call each other and say, "I need 2 Stinger missiles. I have some captured Russian tanks with ammo that I can trade." And they'll trade weapons among each other, based on their own individual needs. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world...-line.html "DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — The Ukrainian sergeant slid the captured Russian rocket launcher into the center of a small room. He was pleased. The weapon was practically brand-new. It had been built in 2020, and its thermobaric warhead was deadly against troops and armored vehicles. "But the sergeant, nicknamed Zmei, had no plans to fire it at advancing Russian soldiers or at a tank trying to burst through his unit’s front line in eastern Ukraine. "Instead, he was going to use it as a bargaining chip. "Within the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, Zmei was not just a lowly sergeant. He was the brigade’s point man for a wartime bartering system among Ukrainian forces. Prevalent along the front line, the exchange operates like a kind of shadow economy, soldiers say, in which units acquire weapons or equipment and trade them for supplies they need urgently." The article goes on to describe the trade of a captured Russian tank for a transport truck and 2 sniper rifles. |
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