Rows of Mark 82 500-pound bombs line an ammo storage area at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. (Credit: US Air Force / Airman 1st Class Zachary Perras)

For those of you paying attention, the Institute has been far ahead of the curve in checking its bias and making a  bloody and dispassionate appraisal of Russian fighting abilities. The Coprophile Media has been in the the bag for the Ukrainians and had a tough time admitting what savvy observers knew from the beginning of the SMO, the Ukraine had no chance of winning.

Now some members of the journalist class are waking up from their propaganda induced stupor to realize the Russians may be the deadliest land force on Earth.

The writer at the Wall Street Journal aver:

Americans think the Russian army is not fighting like gentlemen.

WSJ writes that the Russian military is “blazing a trail in Ukraine, combining the brute force of the Red Army with modern technology.”

The Russian way of warfare, according to the newspaper, is based on drones that detect targets and “the power of bombs and artillery that pave the way for infantry to seize territory.”

“Each element of the attack supports the others, happening simultaneously or in waves. This can create a snowball effect, forcing the Ukrainians to retreat,” the article says.

In the next year, you will see an increasing shift to acknowledge what is playing out in that far flung blooded field. It will unflinchingly reveal to anyone paying attention that America and the west continue to cling to 20th century notions of warfare that will make their armies and fleets not fit for purpose for 21st century peer conflict and combat. The trillions spent on the military in the US has for the most part been a complete waste of time and resource to build insufficient forces and decades behind in technology on what the wars in the 21st century will require for achieving success.

Nothing less than a wholesale cashiering of all the flag ranks (no exceptions) and a complete stem to stern cleansing of outmoded thinking will set the DoD right.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/growing-focus-on-russian-tactical