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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:48:26 +0100

kuchinster

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Sol schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:03:55 +0100

Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat

#Tactics without #Strategy is the #Noise Before #Defeat #Ukraine #NATO #US #Russia #politics

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"The Empire is now facing a simple and extremely dangerous dilemma: NATO forces in the Ukraine are running out of both hardware and personnel.

If the West sends, say, a company or even a battalion of MBTs to Lvov and several Patriot batteries to protect Kiev, that will make no military difference on the ground. Yes, quantity does have a qualitative dimension and such limited deliveries of weapon systems and personnel might make for great “noise” (in Sun Tzu’s sense), but make no difference.

And if the West sends a large enough force to make a difference, that would inevitably result in a major continental war NATO cannot win.

This all begs the question: what is the West’s true goal in the Ukraine?

Let me suggest a few:

Prevent a Ukronazi/NATO defeat
Make the war as costly as possible for Russia
Save face

There are problems with all three of these goals, the main one being that none of them qualify as “strategy” (they are too vague to begin with). The second problem is that the West does not have the means to achieve any of these goals. And the third is by sticking to such utterly unrealistic goals will make the inevitable defeat and subsequent loss of face for the entire West even worse.

So what can the US/NATO bring to the table?

A world class C4ISR (very useful, but also potentially very vulnerable)

A world class submarine force (useful only to fire cruise missiles)

A large amount of subsonic and mostly outdated cruise missiles

A comparatively small ground force (with no real air defenses)

Air forces which have no experience operating in a *very dangerous environment.*

A very robust nuclear triad"

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