There’s a lot of weirdness to go around in this conflict. One of the weird aspects I noticed is that a lot of the combat footage that is made public nowadays is of these relatively close-range, small-scale brawls out in the sticks. Never more than a dozen people on either side, never more than 1-2 armored vehicles. It kind of flies in the face of modern combined arms doctrine that the US enjoys.
Released combat footage is a very small lens into this admittedly, but it seems like that’s how the war is being fought now. Handfuls of troops operating almost independently, bounding between wooded thickets, gaining and losing meters, and slugging it out with the other side doing the same thing along the way.
There’s a lot of weirdness to go around in this conflict. One of the weird aspects I noticed is that a lot of the combat footage that is made public nowadays is of these relatively close-range, small-scale brawls out in the sticks. Never more than a dozen people on either side, never more than 1-2 armored vehicles. It kind of flies in the face of modern combined arms doctrine that the US enjoys.
Released combat footage is a very small lens into this admittedly, but it seems like that’s how the war is being fought now. Handfuls of troops operating almost independently, bounding between wooded thickets, gaining and losing meters, and slugging it out with the other side doing the same thing along the way.
I guess that’s a response to the size of the front lines, and how many people each side has to man them.
I suspect you’d see something much more like US style battle where Ukraine is actually gaining ground.