- Simplicius - SITREP 5 August 2023: Projecting the Intermediate Future Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on August 7, 2023, 7:37 am
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6 Aug 2023 There aren't a whole lot of significant battlefield updates just yet, so I wanted to take this time to project what the medium-term future will look like based on Ukraine and the West's signaled plans for the next 6 months and more. But first, let's summarize roughly where things stand, particularly vis a vis the grand summer 'offensive' so that we're all on the same page as to where the conflict currently stands narratively. Early this year, Ukraine began to outfit two separate 'army corps' of maneuver brigades specifically for the coming 'counter-offensive'. These were the 9th Corps and the 10th Corps. The 9th Corps was meant to be the - mostly - NATO-armed and trained one which was famously revealed in the Pentagon leaks. It consisted of the 9 named maneuver brigades, which were the 116th, 47th, 33rd, 21st, 32nd, 37th, 118th, 117th, and the 82nd air assault. Out of these, the 47th was said to be the most elite, cobbled from all 'volunteers' who signed up specifically from other units and were trained in the UK and were armed with 99 x M2A2 Bradleys as well as American M109 Paladins for artillery. The role of the two army corps was that the 9th was meant to be the breakthrough brigade which reached the first 'main line of defense', the notorious ones with dragon teeth that Russia spent months constructing. Upon reaching this line, the 10th Corps was meant to be the 'breakthrough' force which then took over for the 9th, pouring in another fresh 9-12 brigades through the gap to create an unstoppable opening. -- Cont'd at https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-8523-projecting-the-intermediate |
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