Tag: tanks
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[Sharing] It’s Official: Ukraine Conflict is British ‘Proxy War’ – Kit Klarenberg
On March 29th, the New York Times published a landmark investigation exposing how the US was “woven” into Ukraine’s battle with Russia “far more intimately and broadly than previously understood,” with Washington almost invariably serving as “the backbone of Ukrainian military operations.” The outlet went so far as to acknowledge the conflict was a “proxy…
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[Sharing] 57 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
80 years ago today, the Red Army pressed forward toward Danzig and Gdynia, while fierce battles raged near Lake Balaton. The advance on Danzig was hindered by Nazi naval support, with the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen expending nearly all of its ammunition in defense of the city [end] Related March 12, 2025: 58 Days to…
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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…
