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crimsonaudio said:
So sad.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1507352079370792965
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Here is what accounts for all these flag officer casualties.
The Germans in 1916-1918 developed what they called "auftragstaktik," tell your subordinate what you want done (not how to do it), and why, and give him the initiative, indeed, tell him you expect him to use his initiative. In the West, this is called "mission command."
Russians run things in a different way. You tell your subordinates what to do and how to do it, and when things do not go according to plan, wait until the Boss tells you what to do next.
This requires senior officer to go way further forward than their Western counterparts do, to correct the situation. When generals go forward, some of them get killed. When they do not go forward, tactics grind to a halt.
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
I'm not sure that line is worth drawing if it plunges us into a nuclear holocaust. We are not talking about 1 or 2 bombs being dropped, but hundreds, all over the planet. The beginning of all those post apocalyptic movies. I don't say that to be funny, I say it out of fear. Climate change will not matter anymore because the planet will be destroyed. I'm just not sure protecting Ukraine is worth ending life as we know it on this planet. As Spock would say, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." The world doesn't need a nuclear war.

"In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself." -from the movie Crimson Tide
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It's unfortunate that we don't have that choice.

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I'm not sure that line is worth drawing if it plunges us into a nuclear holocaust. We are not talking about 1 or 2 bombs being dropped, but hundreds, all over the planet. The beginning of all those post apocalyptic movies. I don't say that to be funny, I say it out of fear. Climate change will not matter anymore because the planet will be destroyed. I'm just not sure protecting Ukraine is worth ending life as we know it on this planet. As Spock would say, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." The world doesn't need a nuclear war.

"In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself." -from the movie Crimson Tide
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Unfortunately, the choice is not ours to make. Your approach was tried several times with Hitler. Each time, he just drew a new line. Anyone who can't see the Hitler in Putin is being willfully blind. The longer we wait to draw the line and enforce it, the worse will be the conflagration at the end, just as in WWII with Hitler...
 
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crimsonaudio said:
Seems like they've learned a lot since WWII.
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If you have a conscript army, that puts a pretty hard ceiling on how well-trained the troops can be.
I had an NCO attached to the Russian airborne Brigade at Uglevik, Bosnia in 1996. He was marking an LZ for a helicopter coming in. A Russian saw him and asked, "What rank are you?"
"I am a Sergeant First Class," the American answered.
"No, you're not. NCOs do not know how to mark LZs for helicopters. You are really an officer wearing sergeant's rank."
"In the American army they do."

What I learned from that story was that Russian NCOs do not possess the skill of marking helicopter LZs, not even Russian NCOs in an airborne unit. And I learned that the Russians are naturally so suspicious that they will invent a conspiracy theory on the spot when they experience cognitive dissonance.
 
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uafanataum said:
www.businessinsider.com

Putin will have 'no choice' but to stop Ukraine invasion: former US general

"Putin will have to halt his war in Ukraine sooner or later and probably in a matter of weeks," retired US Army Brig. Gen. Kevin Ryan told Insider.
www.businessinsider.com

Is this man just talking or is this accurate?
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Could be accurate.
He is a duck-hunter (Air Defender) by branch, and he retired a while ago, but he is part of an organization that brings American and Russians soldiers together for dialogue, so he may have colleagues from the other side that are telling him this.
 
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Tidewater said:
If you have a conscript army, that puts a pretty hard ceiling on how well-trained the troops can be.
I had an NCO attached to the Russian airborne Brigade at Uglevik, Bosnia in 1996. He was marking an LZ for a helicopter coming in. A Russian saw him and asked, "What rank are you?"
"I am a Sergeant First Class," the American answered.
"No, you're not. NCOs do not know how to mark LZs for helicopters. You are really an officer wearing sergeant's rank."
"In the American army they do."

What I learned from that story was that Russian NCOs do not possess the skill of marking helicopter LZs, not even Russian NCOs in an airborne unit. And I learned that the Russians are naturally so suspicious that they will invent a conspiracy theory on the spot when they experience cognitive dissonance.
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I was taught way back in the Soviet days that their conscript system generally prevented the development of a strong NCO cadre and that the junior officers did for them what our NCOs do. I may have been an officer, but from the beginning I knew to rely on my NCOs, who knew more than I did.
 
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The Modern War Institute from West Point has a podcast.
Understanding No-Fly Zones
https://mwi.usma.edu/mwi-podcast-understanding-no-fly-zones/
In this episode, a former USAF EWO explains what a "no fly zone" means.

Why is Ukraine’s government so eager for a no-fly zone? And why are leaders in the United States and other NATO members so hesitant to undertake such a course of action? That’s the subject of this episode of the MWI Podcast. John Amble is joined by retired US Air Force Colonel Mike Pietrucha. A veteran aviator, he has directly relevant experience with no-fly zones—he was part of enforcing several of them over both northern and southern Iraq and in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

He shares his experiences and describes both the appeal and effectiveness of no-fly zones as a policy tool and the practical requirements and challenges of implementing them. He also explains what is required for no-fly zones to achieve their objectives and details the implications of declaring one in the airspace over Ukraine.
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