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I'm here to ask you guys some for some informed help.
There have been Ukrainians training in my country for a while now, and this last cycle that just graduated, they have selected 3 dozen or so candidates to go through another X amount of extended training and turn them into NCO's/Officers.
My unit is going to be in charge of that training.
I was talking with the base psychologist, who is going to be in charge of their "psychological" training. She will be giving them half a dozen of weekly addresses, but she has been given no advice or direction on what to teach them. She has some idea of where to start (stress handling, leadership skills...etc) but apart from that, taking into account these guys are headed for an actual shooting war obviously she wants to make an actual contribution and not give them hollow TedTalks.
As people with more expertise than me, I refer to you all the question:
What sort of psychological training would you recommend she prepare given the circumstances? What topics should she cover or what sort of techniques could she teach?
Thank you in advance.
 
PS I apologize if this isn't the correct place for the post but it's the place with the most traffic at the moment and the training isn't far off, so we would appreciate the help. Again, thank you in advance.

I'm here to ask you guys some for some informed help.
There have been Ukrainians training in my country for a while now, and this last cycle that just graduated, they have selected 3 dozen or so candidates to go through another X amount of extended training and turn them into NCO's/Officers.
My unit is going to be in charge of that training.
I was talking with the base psychologist, who is going to be in charge of their "psychological" training. She will be giving them half a dozen of weekly addresses, but she has been given no advice or direction on what to teach them. She has some idea of where to start (stress handling, leadership skills...etc) but apart from that, taking into account these guys are headed for an actual shooting war obviously she wants to make an actual contribution and not give them hollow TedTalks.
As people with more expertise than me, I refer to you all the question:
What sort of psychological training would you recommend she prepare given the circumstances? What topics should she cover or what sort of techniques could she teach?
Thank you in advance.
 
PS I apologize if this isn't the correct place for the post but it's the place with the most traffic at the moment and the training isn't far off, so we would appreciate the help. Again, thank you in advance.

Hi thread. My unit is going to be involved in training about 3 dozen Ukranian NCO´s/Officers
Long story short im friends with the base pcychologist and she has been given the task of giving them psychological training and honestly she doesnt know what to teach:
to not spoil the thread ive opened another one in the CMBS main forum page where I give a more detailed explanation and where we would really apreciate the help. Thank you in advance:
 
 

Hi thread. My unit is going to be involved in training about 3 dozen Ukranian NCO´s/Officers
Long story short im friends with the base pcychologist and she has been given the task of giving them psychological training and honestly she doesnt know what to teach:
to not spoil the thread ive opened another one in the CMBS main forum page where I give a more detailed explanation and where we would really apreciate the help. Thank you in advance:
 
 

I'm here to ask you guys some for some informed help.
There have been Ukrainians training in my country for a while now, and this last cycle that just graduated, they have selected 3 dozen or so candidates to go through another X amount of extended training and turn them into NCO's/Officers.
My unit is going to be in charge of that training.
I was talking with the base psychologist, who is going to be in charge of their "psychological" training. She will be giving them half a dozen of weekly addresses, but she has been given no advice or direction on what to teach them. She has some idea of where to start (stress handling, leadership skills...etc) but apart from that, taking into account these guys are headed for an actual shooting war obviously she wants to make an actual contribution and not give them hollow TedTalks.
As people with more expertise than me, I refer to you all the question:
What sort of psychological training would you recommend she prepare given the circumstances? What topics should she cover or what sort of techniques could she teach?
Thank you in advance.
 
PS I apologize if this isn't the correct place for the post but it's the place with the most traffic at the moment and the training isn't far off, so we would appreciate the help. Again, thank you in advance.

Hi thread. My unit is going to be involved in training about 3 dozen Ukranian NCO´s/Officers
Long story short im friends with the base pcychologist and she has been given the task of giving them psychological training and honestly she doesnt know what to teach:
to not spoil the thread ive opened another one in the CMBS main forum page where I give a more detailed explanation and where we would really apreciate the help. Thank you in advance:
 
 

I'm here to ask you guys some for some informed help.
There have been Ukrainians training in my country for a while now, and this last cycle that just graduated, they have selected 3 dozen or so candidates to go through another X amount of extended training and turn them into NCO's/Officers.
My unit is going to be in charge of that training.
I was talking with the base psychologist, who is going to be in charge of their "psychological" training. She will be giving them half a dozen of weekly addresses, but she has been given no advice or direction on what to teach them. She has some idea of where to start (stress handling, leadership skills...etc) but apart from that, taking into account these guys are headed for an actual shooting war obviously she wants to make an actual contribution and not give them hollow TedTalks.
As people with more expertise than me, I refer to you all the question:
What sort of psychological training would you recommend she prepare given the circumstances? What topics should she cover or what sort of techniques could she teach?
Thank you in advance.
 
PS I apologize if this isn't the correct place for the post but it's the place with the most traffic at the moment and the training isn't far off, so we would appreciate the help. Again, thank you in advance.

Hi thread. My unit is going to be involved in training about 3 dozen Ukranian NCO´s/Officers
Long story short im friends with the base pcychologist and she has been given the task of giving them psychological training and honestly she doesnt know what to teach:
to not spoil the thread ive opened another one in the CMBS main forum page where I give a more detailed explanation and where we would really apreciate the help. Thank you in advance:
 
 

I'm here to ask you guys some for some informed help.
There have been Ukrainians training in my country for a while now, and this last cycle that just graduated, they have selected 3 dozen or so candidates to go through another X amount of extended training and turn them into NCO's/Officers.
My unit is going to be in charge of that training.
I was talking with the base psychologist, who is going to be in charge of their "psychological" training. She will be giving them half a dozen of weekly addresses, but she has been given no advice or direction on what to teach them. She has some idea of where to start (stress handling, leadership skills...etc) but apart from that, taking into account these guys are headed for an actual shooting war obviously she wants to make an actual contribution and not give them hollow TedTalks.
As people with more expertise than me, I refer to you all the question:
What sort of psychological training would you recommend she prepare given the circumstances? What topics should she cover or what sort of techniques could she teach?
Thank you in advance.
 
PS I apologize if this isn't the correct place for the post but it's the place with the most traffic at the moment and the training isn't far off, so we would appreciate the help. Again, thank you in advance.

I'm here to ask you guys some for some informed help.
There have been Ukrainians training in my country for a while now, and this last cycle that just graduated, they have selected 3 dozen or so candidates to go through another X amount of extended training and turn them into NCO's/Officers.
My unit is going to be in charge of that training.
I was talking with the base psychologist, who is going to be in charge of their "psychological" training. She will be giving them half a dozen of weekly addresses, but she has been given no advice or direction on what to teach them. She has some idea of where to start (stress handling, leadership skills...etc) but apart from that, taking into account these guys are headed for an actual shooting war obviously she wants to make an actual contribution and not give them hollow TedTalks.
As people with more expertise than me, I refer to you all the question:
What sort of psychological training would you recommend she prepare given the circumstances? What topics should she cover or what sort of techniques could she teach?
Thank you in advance.
 
PS I apologize if this isn't the correct place for the post but it's the place with the most traffic at the moment and the training isn't far off, so we would appreciate the help. Again, thank you in advance.

And on this note, an extraordinarily important event is about to take place in Boston! Game seven of the Basketball playoffs between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics! The Celtics lost the first game on their own home court, lost the next two to the heat on the Heat’s home court, but took the next three games with one in Boston and two in Miami. No team has ever come back after a 0-3 deficit to win the series. The other three teams that came back from a 0-3 deficit, lost game seven on the road.

Just a quick post to reassure you that I am still working on this. However, Age Of Wonders 4 dropped last week and I've spent all my game time playing that and will likely be playing a lot of it for some time to come. I'll be working on this in the evenings in the future as I don't generally 'play' games then. It's also good because it prevents burnout from being a thing.

Well, thanks to Age of Wonders 4, not an enormous amount of progress has been made but I've been working on the first two missions and have finally gotten Overkill and Ambush to where I want them. I'm considering taking out the Adan airfield missions as they are not part of the original campaign and the second one involves a large AI attack and these attack missions are a lot of work to get right.
I've toned down the difficulty of Ambush quite a bit - the new AI fire plans mean that the player will get ripped to pieces by the superior firepower of the attacker. It's an ambush mission - the AI is not supposed to know you're there and to blunder into your well-set ambush. Best guesses aside, I don't really know when the player will launch his ambush so I'm not going to script in fire plans for AI groups and just let them start firing once they know the enemy is there the old fashioned way. But I'm taking this experience with me to the Montebourg rework to make German AI attacks much more effective.
Testing the Guards Counterattack mission is quite hard work because while it's an AI attack, it's also quite a long mission as you have to counter attack, obviously. The opening AI assault is brutal and I'm happy with that but I have yet to win it - the T-90s are not as OP as I'd feared so I'm going to stick with them. The Barrier mission is a meeting arrangement and is going to be a lot of work testing too. I've reworked the original map and extended it quite a bit to improve LoS and added some terrain features to an otherwise barren map. A lot of apparently arid Syria land appears to be worked by farmers so I've worked a couple of features in from real world locations to make it look more interesting.
The AI is defending in Hill 142 so that won't be nearly so much work to finalise. Obviously, Heavy Metal is a complete reboot and another meeting engagement and then there is the final Guards mission, Sadara, which is like Hill 142 but much bigger.
The final mission, Hasrabit, is another large AI attack and quite a beast to manage so there's still a lot of work to do there.
So, it's a lot of work but I'm slowly working my way through it. Slow and steady wins the race (Tell that to Usain Bolt)

You just Rick Rolled us! 🤣

The downside of being the first modern democracy is that you don't get to learn from the example of other modern democracies. We've made a lot of improvements in the last 250 years. But the underlying structure is still based off of 18th century political science. Credit to the founders, it was the best political science available in the 18th century. But it is astounding how far political science has come since then.
Think of it like the difference between an old tank that has been heavily upgraded, and a tank that's a new design from the ground up. The US government is basically an M60A3 TTS (lots of impressive improvements bolted onto a fundamentally old hull). While something like the modern German government (designed from scratch in the aftermath of WW2 based on the best mid-20th century political science) is basically an M1 Abrams.

WTH, Perun has made inroads,  I see... 

What do you mean nothing to parade with? SMO lead to the creme de la creme of RU militairy innovations.

These MTLB modifications are getting stranger by the second!
(Parody)
 

These MTLB modifications are getting stranger by the second!
(Parody)
 

These MTLB modifications are getting stranger by the second!
(Parody)
 

These MTLB modifications are getting stranger by the second!
(Parody)
 

Spain lost a good part of its American empire in wars of independence (in a way they were civil wars) during the second and third decades of the 19th century. However she continued to hold Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, the Carolinas, Guam etc. Mentally it continued to consider itself an empire and for this reason it intervened in Morocco, Vietnam, annexed Santo Domingo between 1861 and 1865, etc.
Everything fell apart with the Spanish-American War of 1898. It lost the entire overseas empire. The country mentally fell into crisis (it is known as the crisis of 1898) and went from considering itself a power to considering itself ****. The Rif War (1911-1927), with the disasters at Barranco del Lobo and Annual, did not help either. This is one of the many reasons that Spain did not get involved in world wars. We went from being a proud country capable of everything (the Spanish of the 16th century said that they had achieved things that surpassed those of the Romans) to nothing. Since then, Spain has been fighting to recover its self-esteem.
By the way, the war of 1898 is the reason why the Spanish population is, in my opinion, predominantly anti-American (I'm talking about the American government, not the American population, which is well received here). Unlike other European countries, Spain owes nothing to the US. On the contrary, the US not only ended the remains of the Spanish empire in 1898 but also supported the Franco dictatorship. I am very pro-American, much more than the average in Spain, but sometimes that also hurts me.
In short, a few serious defeats go a long way in helping a country rethink things more realistically.

Thanks for at least writing a proper reply, but with regard to my point, it isn't really much more responsive than Jon's (which didn't even rise to the level of sophistry).
....You both are effectively talking down:  be still Grasshopper, such things are all far too complex and unknowable (OPSEC), and it is pure alarmism to be bringing it up at all, nuffink to see here. Just put your trust in the All Knowing UA Generalstabs and wait to see what they unleash. Meanwhile, enjoy scrolling another hundred 'Dumb Mobik' Tweets and Western political handwringing, or wev, while we await the Big Push.
 
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....So one more time, let me restate my hypothesis:
(1)   Based on the vast preponderance of evidence presented in this thread since Feb 2022, the 'correlation of forces' in this war strongly favours the Defence.
With the exceptions in point (4) below, large scale set piece attacks by either side have been pyrrhic, at best eking out positional gains not exploitable and not justified by the costs.
(2)   While at an operational level the Russians are still (stupidly) attacking, with results that continue to support point (1), strategically speaking they are the Defender. 
(3)  To 'win' the war (as defined by themselves), Putin must now Defend most of the lands his army holds until a cease fire is finally declared (a la Korea). That could take years, but Russia doesn't just dissolve away.
(4)  To date, Attackers have retaken territory only when (a) Defenders have vacated it, due to overextending or a supply crisis, or (b) when Defenders were caught in the process of redeploying, as happened in the Izium-Oskil sector in late summer. UA has done brilliantly at seizing these openings, full marks.
(5)  BUT to this day, neither side has solved for large scale Attacks against well-manned,  prepared and supplied Defences.
(6)  Opinions vary as to what Attacking force is required for the modernising UA to solve for this conundrum, at the land bridge or elsewhere.  (Your post, and your priors, lists out some of these and many thanks).
But whether it's combined mech, or jaegers, or combat sappers, or what, overmatching and breaking the Defenders is going to take a large number of additional fresh, well-trained and kitted out troops. The force must suffice to break through, exploit and secure the gains.
(7)  The number of required troops is open to much debate, but seems to be in the nature of 40,000 - 65,000 (3 divisions + support)?
....and I am very open to your (or anyone else's) views, or credible links, on that topic. 
[And ok, fine, it isn't just a raw Number X = Success! it's quality, skillsets, deployments, all the other factors, as you duly note. But it sure as hell isn't ZERO, i.e. about the same number as fighting now, just better and moar techie].
(8)  It also seems to me that in spite of OPSEC, the Ukrainians are having some difficulties generating that offensive capable force, of whatever size. Hence, 'behind the curve' (and no, I'm not about to write a trig function for those who  claim ignorance of this idiom).
....Evidence remains anecdotal, fine. Hell, we're just a bunch of gamers reading twitter and reading the tea leaves.
But since the UA is struggling to hold Bakhmut (I don't buy that they're yielding it willingly) and (anecdotally) throwing in raw recruits, it signals to me that that their new army is still a long way from being ready to disembowel Wagner, 76th VDV or the Russian naval infantry, even though all these units now seem ripe for a counterpunch.
So let's say we find ourselves slipping back to May or June. And it turns out the Russians have, e.g. amassed 10,000 Chinese Lancets and another 10,000 NLAW/Jav knockoffs, in addition to all their other defensive works, with time to train mobiks in their use.
How does the Big Push go then?

CEO of Rheinmetall claims that two Skynex systems are already in Ukraine.
At about 11:00 (audio only in German)
https://www.thepioneer.de/originals/thepioneer-briefing-economy-edition/podcasts/rheinmetall-ceo-armin-papperger-ueber-krieg-und-frieden
That is this system:
 
Son of Gepard
Would love to see an in action video.