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US media now says Ukraine's counteroffensive needs a plan B (time.com)

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[–] T34@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

While it has begun slowly to adapt, Ukraine’s military is still deeply rooted in Soviet-era offensive tactics and culture, centralizing decision-making at the top while penalizing subordinate soldiers who dare to deviate from the plan.

"Ukraine's losing cuz communism!"

lol

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

That's the eastern Europe for you. In postsocialist countries, even after over 30 years of the destruction of socialism, literally every failure gets blamed on socialism.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Holy shit i can't believe that's an actual quote.

[–] ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I'm not really knowledgeable about this at all, but I could've sworn I've heard that inflexibility in plans and overpenalization of subordinates for not following exact orders is a huge flaw in the US military. So they will literally project anything and everything lol