- Simplicius: Myths and Realities of the Russian/NATO NCO Systems Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on September 3, 2023, 6:41 am
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(quote) A few days ago Russian war correspondent Sladkov made an interesting post where he showcased two new videos from Western/pro-Ukrainian military experts that go into detail in describing Russian tactics and military strengths in the Ukrainian conflict. It's a good jumping off point to highlight some of the ongoing tactical developments I've been covering from time to time over the past few months. Also, much of the information underlines or confirms many things we've been talking about here, such as the misconceptions about the structure and tactics of the Russian armed forces which I've tirelessly dispelled in several articles like this one. ... As a quick summary, a Ukrainian reserve officer who posts on Twitter claimed to have gotten in his possession this captured Russian manual for a new assault style unit, which in general describes a smaller, more heavily armed, and independent type of unit geared towards assaulting the various forest/plantation positions of the AFU. When posting the video, Sladkov gave a type of coy implication that the video creator may have been right, in part, about his chief condemnation that, prior to the SMO, Russia had an inadequate number of "ready-made assault units":  Previous MessageEnglish-speaking researchers come to the conclusion (which, due to secrecy, I can neither confirm nor refute, but only bring you for your information) that before the start of the NWO, there were an extremely small number of ready-made assault units in Russia. Those were only in the Marine Corps, the Airborne Forces and the Wagner PMC. Also, historically, there were special assault units of the engineering troops, from which the assault units of the Soviet and Russian armies originate, but their modern appearance in the NVO zone has not yet been caught on video and little is known about it. Recall that Sladkov is a retired officer of the Russian armed forces, from a military family. He is likely the longest serving frontline military correspondent in the country, having begun doing reports in the late 80s. He's covered everything from the Afghan war, Transnistria conflict, Tajikistan civil war, Chechen wars, Georgian War, and now the Ukrainian conflict. Due to his long established reputation and previous service, he has a lot of insider access and info. His coy 'secrecy' reference above seems to imply that this information could have some truth to it, at least in part. That's because if it weren't true, there would be no reason to withhold it, as it would not in any way compromise Russian security to "reveal" that Russia was actually strong all along. Further, the whole point of his posting these videos from Western military experts is in some ways to highlight the fact that they do make certain accurate points about Russia's deficiencies. If most of what they were saying wasn't true, he wouldn't have bothered posting them. But why would Russia lack enough assault units? For one, Russia has mostly been defense oriented toward the encroaching NATO threat, not offense. NATO is the imperialist power with the unquenchable obsession with "assaulting" everything on the planet. Russia had no need for a preponderance of assault for the same reason they didn't invest in a mass amount of force-projecting aircraft carriers. Russia had an adequate amount for what it felt was within the purview of its doctrinal needs - to defend the motherland. Another reason, of course - and this gets down to the brass tacks of things we'll cover - is that in the past two decades Russia has relied on a conscript-heavy armed forces. You can't really teach conscripts good assault as they don't stay on long enough to gain that type of experience, only serving 1 year terms. But now that's changing. (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/myths-and-realities-of-the-russiannato |
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