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2023 Ukraine summer counteroffensive (view source)
Revision as of 16:12, December 8, 2023
, 16:12, December 8, 2023→WaPo blames US & UK planning for the disaster
Each side blamed the other for mistakes or miscalculations. U.S. military officials concluded that Ukraine had fallen short in basic military tactics, including the use of ground reconnaissance to understand the density of minefields. Ukrainian officials said the Americans didn’t seem to comprehend how attack drones and other [[technology]] had transformed the battlefield.}}
Each side blamed the other for mistakes or miscalculations. U.S. military officials concluded that Ukraine had fallen short in basic military tactics, including the use of ground reconnaissance to understand the density of minefields. Ukrainian officials said the Americans didn’t seem to comprehend how attack drones and other [[technology]] had transformed the battlefield.}}
The debacle was totally the fault of the U.S. military planners. Arrogance and hubris combined to send the Ukrainians on a mission that genuinely was impossible. No army in the world can breach fortified defensive positions without air power, a fundamental principle of U.S. combined arms. And yet that is precisely what the U.S. demanded the Ukrainians do. The combat maneuvers that [[Milley]] and other U.S. commanders expected the Ukrainians to perform were difficult for U.S. soldiers who have had 14 months of training. In the case of Ukraine, the United States insisted that a collection of inexperienced recruits do this with two months of training.
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