The VDV...Russia’s “elite” paratroopers sustained 60% losses in many units trying to take the infamous airport outside Kiyv along with many Spetnaz and special operators during its week long attempt to place Kiyv under siege.
If your claiming a “feint”, which is a completely valid military tactic. You don’t do a “sacrificial feint” with your
most elite and highly prized units. That is like Iran sacrificing NOHED to distract the enemy. Completely against military conventional unless the situation is ABSOLUTELY dire.
They were Initially fed bad Intel by the FSB and were told that resistance would be minimal and collapse rapidly. Zelenksy would flee to western Ukraine or to an EU country. There was supposed to be a revolt with pro Russian elements inside of Kiyv that were cultivated since 2014 using billions of dollars that were likely instead spent by the corrupt heads of military. None of what was promised ever happened. Some sabatouers here and there in the first 72 hours inside Kiyv, but UAF located them and killed them. Videos out there for you to see if you dig around.
When that mini Blitz failed....they decided they were not trying to take Kiyv and instead would place it under siege and starve them out until they surrender or the Southern and Eastern fronts reached them for a full on assault.
When they saw that those fronts also have stalled they made the tough choice to give up the northern front because it was stalled and just sucking up resources and facing harassment attacks by SOF using Western intelligence. They failed multiple times to place Kiyv under siege a la Aleppo.
You aren’t even speculating, you are trying to desperately rationalize the failures. It’s clearly visible in the way you write. Russia made bonehead decisions and the evidence is everywhere. US has done that too in history. It happens. It especially happens in “yes men militaries” like the one Putin has assembled. I been raising the red flag since the early days and was being attacked by some of you here
Dude, no offense you have no idea what your talking about. And your Russian apologist schtik just insulted the Shaheeds of our country who gave their lives and kept Assad from becoming one gigantic Jihadstan. I suggest you re-read Syrian War history and watch the numerous battle videos. I was following that conflict very closely.
Old washed up Soviet doctrine is what almost cost Assad his head. SAA was trained under Assad’s father whose military was trained under the Soviets.
You want to know all those armour losses (hundreds maybe thousands) and the loss of 100K+ troops? Ironic all those happened with Soviet trained SAA commanders? Ironic how Russia is facing the same type of losses in Ukraine that Syria was in the early years of the war? Why is that?
What was brutally effective was
Iranian tactics. The amount of Iranian advisors and generals that landed in Syria hadn’t been seen in the Middle East since the Iraq war of 2003.
Iranian military philosophy is mostly a hybrid of US military philosophy (from the days of Shah) and asymmetrical warfare (IRGC warfare from the imposed war).
Iran was the boots on the ground, not Russia. They were too scared and stayed in the air (for the most part other than Palmyra).
If you listen to IRGC they couldn’t even provide close air support well either (not shocking given what we see in Ukraine).
Lastly basically every military since pre-WWI placed emphasis on artillery. It was US artillery pieces that Iran had during the imposed war that shredded Iraqi forces that even Solemani mentioned them in his remembrance of the war. Def not a Russian thing.
Side note: Many videos like this exist below for those that followed the war. Don’t ever say again it was “Russian tactics” that won the Syrian civil war on the ground. That is disrespectful to our damn country and the men that died on frontlines in some of the worst fighting in half century.
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