Who knew Russia would utilize WWI tactics of wave after wave of cannon fodder in a complete disregard of human life?
Now we know.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Russia applied the human wave attack tactics in WWII as well, and that war remains their benchmark standard.
I feel like we should've known since Russia has always waged war like this. It is shocking they're still doing it though!
In any old empire, soldier's life isn't worth much. Fortunately, most of the empires are gone by now, and hopefully Russia will follow their tracks.
@Ulara the US and pretty much everyone in the world became spoiled about how warfare should be fought. Probably there's also the memory of WW2 when entire cities were leveled to 0 in bombings and shelling, so the alternative of carrying an urban fight became more desirable. Despite this, Russia seems to not care about this fact and actually bomb and level entire cities and other settlements to the ground instead.
Another reason is that it is much more interesting and impressive to create some super advanced and costly tech instead of maintaining huge stockpiles of simpler materiel.
@Ulara well, it's more effective to have one shot-one strike than to try getting collateral damage all the way until you hit the target, so getting high-tech in normal weapons does make sense from this point of view.
Long and protracted war is not part of the US doctrine. There’s a reason Iraq didn’t last very long, the US aims to destroy before they could really establish fortified positions.
Production increase is the number one reason I see as giving ammunition to Ukraine as an overall good thing. Long term contacts to spy Ukraine and replenish greater stocks to be ready for a war in SE Asia. Not giving out the contacts and not giving to Ukraine is not going to make us more ready contrary to the America first narratives.
Additionally, ammunition does not last forever. It expires and becomes less effective. Everything needed replacing.
We need greater and smarter manufacturing at scale.