What can stop Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine? | 158 comments (158 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The only thing which can stop Russian tanks (none / 1)

Yes, and field hospitals and stuff. The second echelong supposedly has a higher fraction of support units than the first echelong. The job of the first echelong is to surge forward, identify the weak spots in the enemy line, break through, push on, probably avoiding cities, and link up with the airborne units. The second echelong follows and eliminates the bypassed and surrounded enemy units, mopping up, and occupies the cities.

If the Russians push the button, we will probably see a classical performance of blitzkrieg, which actually is a Russian invention (or at least pretty much - it's a but complicated) - before Stalin murdered all the officers.

Anyway, Deep Battle with Operational Maneuver Groups, here we go.

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by Starvid on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 08:47:37 AM EST
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Re: The only thing which can stop Russian tanks (none / 0)

Does this count as mirror-imaging?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 09:18:41 AM EST
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Re: The only thing which can stop Russian tanks (none / 1)

Hopefully not, as it's less based on what we would do, and more on Russian Cold War standard operating procedure.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 11:06:36 AM EST
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Re: The only thing which can stop Russian tanks (none / 0)

Starvid:

blitzkrieg, which actually is a Russian invention (or at least pretty much - it's a but complicated)

Oh? According to De Gaulle, he invented blitzkrieg, which was adopted by the Germans... and not by the French. Specifically, the use of armoured divisions as a strike force with integrated air and infantry support.

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by eurogreen on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 11:28:15 AM EST
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Re: The only thing which can stop Russian tanks (4.00 / 3)

Well... de Gaulle would say that, wouldn't he? He was, after all, de Gaulle! ;)

Really, you can go back to JC Fuller as well and say that the British invented it, or you can ask "what is Blitzkrieg, really?" And you'll see that it is not at all that clear-cut, that the Germans themselves did not have a formalized Blitzkrieg doctrine, and that there actually were considerable differences between the Soviet Deep Battle, and what in practice became the German Blitzkrieg, and so on.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 11:35:27 AM EST
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