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Muy buen libro del analista Suizo( coronel y miembro del servicio de inteligencia). El mismo que estuvo como observador de la OSCE en el Donbass.
This is a detailed study of the two-year old conflict in which the West has brutally used the Ukrainians to pursue an old pipedream: the conquest of Russia.
In the military field, the factors compared are the quantity and quality of armaments, the firepower of the armed forces, the fighting and jovenlandesal qualities of the soldiers, the level of staff training, the organization of the troops and their combat experience, the character of the military doctrine and the methods of strategic, operative and tactical thinking.
In the political sphere, the factors that come into consideration are the breadth of the social base of state authority, its organization, the constitutional procedure for relations between the government and legislative bodies, the ability to take operational decisions, and the degree and character of popular support for domestic and foreign policy.
Finally, when assessing the strength of the international movement, the factors taken into consideration are its quantitative composition, its influence with the masses, its position in the political life of each country, the principles and norms of relations between its components and the degree of their cohesion
In Russia, unsurprisingly, the principles of the military art of the Soviet forces inspired those currently in use:
Structure of the Doctrine
The Russians have always attached particular importance to doctrine. Better than the West, they have understood that “a common way of seeing, thinking and acting”—as Marshal Foch put it—gives coherence, while allowing for infinite variations in the conception of operations. Military doctrine is a kind of “common core” that serves as a reference for designing operations.
Russian military doctrine divides military art into three main components: strategy (strategiya), operative art (operativnoe iskoustvo) and tactics (taktika). Each of these components has its own characteristics, very similar to those found in Western doctrines. Using the terminology of French doctrine on the use of forces:
The strategic level is that of conception. The aim of strategic action is to lead the adversary to negotiation or defeat.
The operative level is that of cooperation and coordination of inter-force actions, with a view to achieving a given military objective.
The tactical level, finally, is that of maneuver execution at weapon level as an integral part of the operational maneuver.
The Special Military Operation in Ukraine
The Correlation of Forces
Consider all the factors that directly or indirectly influence the conflict. Conversely, as we have seen in Ukraine and elsewhere, Westerners have a much more political reading of the war, and end up mixing the two. This is why communication plays such an essential role in the conduct of war: the perception of the conflict plays an almost more important role than its reality. This is why, in Iraq, the Americans literally invented episodes that glorified their troops.
Russia’s analysis of the situation in February 2022 was undoubtedly considerably more pertinent than that of the West. They knew that a Ukrainian offensive against the Donbass was underway and that it could endanger the government. In 2014-2015, after the massacres in Odessa and Mariupol, the Russian population was very much in favor of intervention. Vladimir pilinguin’s stubborn clinging to the Minsk Agreements was poorly understood in Russia.
The factors that contributed to Russia’s decision to intervene were twofold: the expected support of Ukraine’s ethnically Russian population (which we will call “Russian-speaking” for convenience) and an economy robust enough to withstand sanctions.
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This is a detailed study of the two-year old conflict in which the West has brutally used the Ukrainians to pursue an old pipedream: the conquest of Russia.
In the military field, the factors compared are the quantity and quality of armaments, the firepower of the armed forces, the fighting and jovenlandesal qualities of the soldiers, the level of staff training, the organization of the troops and their combat experience, the character of the military doctrine and the methods of strategic, operative and tactical thinking.
In the political sphere, the factors that come into consideration are the breadth of the social base of state authority, its organization, the constitutional procedure for relations between the government and legislative bodies, the ability to take operational decisions, and the degree and character of popular support for domestic and foreign policy.
Finally, when assessing the strength of the international movement, the factors taken into consideration are its quantitative composition, its influence with the masses, its position in the political life of each country, the principles and norms of relations between its components and the degree of their cohesion
In Russia, unsurprisingly, the principles of the military art of the Soviet forces inspired those currently in use:
- readiness to carry out assigned missions;
- concentration of efforts on solving a specific mission;
- surprise (unconventionality) of military action vis-à-vis the enemy;
- finality determines a set of tasks and the level of resolution of each one;
- totality of available means determines the way to resolve the mission and achieve the objective (correlation of forces);
- coherence of leadership (unity of command);
- economy of forces, resources, time and space;
- support and restoration of combat capability;
- freedom of maneuver.
Structure of the Doctrine
The Russians have always attached particular importance to doctrine. Better than the West, they have understood that “a common way of seeing, thinking and acting”—as Marshal Foch put it—gives coherence, while allowing for infinite variations in the conception of operations. Military doctrine is a kind of “common core” that serves as a reference for designing operations.
Russian military doctrine divides military art into three main components: strategy (strategiya), operative art (operativnoe iskoustvo) and tactics (taktika). Each of these components has its own characteristics, very similar to those found in Western doctrines. Using the terminology of French doctrine on the use of forces:
The strategic level is that of conception. The aim of strategic action is to lead the adversary to negotiation or defeat.
The operative level is that of cooperation and coordination of inter-force actions, with a view to achieving a given military objective.
The tactical level, finally, is that of maneuver execution at weapon level as an integral part of the operational maneuver.
The Special Military Operation in Ukraine
The Correlation of Forces
Consider all the factors that directly or indirectly influence the conflict. Conversely, as we have seen in Ukraine and elsewhere, Westerners have a much more political reading of the war, and end up mixing the two. This is why communication plays such an essential role in the conduct of war: the perception of the conflict plays an almost more important role than its reality. This is why, in Iraq, the Americans literally invented episodes that glorified their troops.
Russia’s analysis of the situation in February 2022 was undoubtedly considerably more pertinent than that of the West. They knew that a Ukrainian offensive against the Donbass was underway and that it could endanger the government. In 2014-2015, after the massacres in Odessa and Mariupol, the Russian population was very much in favor of intervention. Vladimir pilinguin’s stubborn clinging to the Minsk Agreements was poorly understood in Russia.
The factors that contributed to Russia’s decision to intervene were twofold: the expected support of Ukraine’s ethnically Russian population (which we will call “Russian-speaking” for convenience) and an economy robust enough to withstand sanctions.
The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat
We are very happy to bring you this excerpt (along with the Table of Contents) from Colonel Jacques Baud's latest book, The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat (L'art de la guerre russe: Comment l'occident conduire l'ukraine a la echec). This is a detailed stud
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