Tag: tanks
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[Sharing] The insanity of repetition: Israel’s return to the Lebanese quagmire – Anis Raiss, The Cradle
Israel’s latest incursion into south Lebanon repeats the same tactical missteps of the past, plunging the occupation army into a familiar quagmire and raising the urgent question: How long can the cycle of failure continue before lessons are finally learned? Once again, history reverberates through the mountains and valleys of south Lebanon. On 2 October,…
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[Sharing] The Cost of Kursk – Ted Snider, The Libertarian Institute
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought at a very costly price. The Ukrainian armed forces managed a lightning…
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[Sharing] Preliminary Lessons from Ukraine’s Offensive Operations, 2022–23 – Dr Jack Watling, Oleksandr V Danylyuk & Nick Reynolds, The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
The purpose of this report is to examine the causes of the failure of the Ukrainian offensive in 2023 to avoid the repetition of such errors in the future and to inform the regeneration of offensive combat power in NATO militaries The original concept of operations for the Ukrainian offensive was sound. It required 12…
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[Sharing] Russo-Ukrainian war: The Deluge – Big Serge
Z World Turns Two As the calendar barrels into another year and we tick away the days of February, notable anniversaries are marked off in sequence. It is now 2/22/2022 +2: two years since Putin’s address on the historic status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, followed on 2/24/2022 by the commencement of the Special…
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[Sharing] The EU Is Willing to Go to War Over Lithium? – Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook
The riddle of unhinged EU support for the Zelensky regime in Kyiv is now solved. Anyone inclined can unravel why the Germans, in particular, backstabbed Russia in the Minsk peace boondoggle. Lithium. Energy Monitor’s parent company, GlobalData, recently released a report showing that Europe’s biggest lithium reserves lie in the Donbass region of Russia. The…
Nicolas Cinquini 