<I>Russia answers resistance with firepower. Rather than send in men to fight from house to house and room to room, their military doctrine calls for a bombardment by heavy weapons and from the air to destroy their enemies.
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Before the invasion of Ukraine, military analysts assessed that Russia's forces were now much more professional. Perhaps they are, but Russia's invasion has once again been slowed by logistical bottlenecks</I>
So far the Russian Air Forces massively underperformed, and "logistical bottlenecks" mean it's hard to get the artillery shells there to do the bombing, and there's logistical competition between the more forward troops and the rearward artillery.
No?
After all, the US way f war is "bullets, not blood", too. but we, at least in the past, have had the logistical competence to make sure we HAD the bullets
The looting and rape is also Soviet/Russian doctrine.
<I>Russia answers resistance with firepower. Rather than send in men to fight from house to house and room to room, their military doctrine calls for a bombardment by heavy weapons and from the air to destroy their enemies.
...
Before the invasion of Ukraine, military analysts assessed that Russia's forces were now much more professional. Perhaps they are, but Russia's invasion has once again been slowed by logistical bottlenecks</I>
So far the Russian Air Forces massively underperformed, and "logistical bottlenecks" mean it's hard to get the artillery shells there to do the bombing, and there's logistical competition between the more forward troops and the rearward artillery.
No?
After all, the US way f war is "bullets, not blood", too. but we, at least in the past, have had the logistical competence to make sure we HAD the bullets