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too many likes can only lead to trouble. Why back in the day we didn't even HAVE likes. When you wanted to like something you had to go see em, send a letter, or call them... on a rotary dial phone! You young people today have it so easy.

The one area where this becomes perhaps a little more complicated is logistics. As you'd noted ammo carrying is one issue. In addition, there are a lot of systems now on this UGV that would need maintenance and repair. So you have these 3 people sitting in Montana operating their UGV and all is going great. Then it throws a track, breaks something, gets stuck in the mud, gets poked in the sensor by some stupid bird etc etc Now you need to dispatch someone because there is no crew to fix it. In fact in the whole "armored" company there is nobody around cause they are all UGVs. I wonder if the attrition rates we are seeing with Russian units would be all that different in these units considering you don't have the ability to deal with even minor problems that could be handled by a few humans who aren't there. Those humans in the resupply vehicle are going to be the target you want to hit now. and what @womble said!

US Army using lessons from Ukraine war to aid own training (msn.com)

LOL brings to mind the line from the Holy Grail "I'm not quite dead yet... I feel happy! I feel"..whack I moved him to the WIA section for now

why bother, let them continue to issue stupid orders. they are going a grand job all on their own.

This is one thing that fascinates me. Clearly the US intel community decided very very early on that this wasn't the usual gamesmanship from Putin. I don't know that we will ever know, but I'd love to understand the intel that allowed them to make that call and with such assurance. Putin has to be convinced someone sold him out and that someone has to be in a pretty small circle of his most trusted. Could be that no one did but someone was careless with info (yeah not exactly shocking there). Maybe the source of Shoigu's heart attack.

Likely just adding something similar to Col Gen Sergei Beseda, head of the foreign intelligence branch of the FSB, the Fifth Service Beseda has been sent to Lefortovo prison If Putin keeps getting his teeth kicked in he may decide to let them exit Lefortovo in a casket.. or bag or send them to Satriale's Pork Store.

That is assuming the Russia's can't fk up blowing the bridges too

I'll put him in the tentative column. @Haidukas Captain of first rank that is equivalent to Colonel, correct?

Much as I really love bashing Russia, blaming them for most of the world's problems is a stretch. Humans are good at f'n things up. We are incredibly short sighted. The US has a long history (as do many countries) of supporting gov'ts that do things we like regardless of the consequences. This is especially true when it comes to strategically important resources. Saudi Arabia is our own version of Russia. They export Wahabist teachings and oil. They murder their own civilians in their embassy, and we whine and complain and at the end of the day sell them weapons.

funny thing is one of the news media outlets had a headline of video of missile attack on Mosva. The video turned out to be the shelling of kherson...

yep got him earlier today

Frustrating when your threats are for things you've already done... Lithuania Shrugs Off Russia's Threat to Deploy Nukes to the Baltics (businessinsider.com)

hmm might have to break out the sacked section to separate those actually arrested.

never mind

true, but the PR value is off the chart. No matter how Russia spins this for home consumption - even if they say it was due to issues on the ship itself, it is still a huge blow to any sense of Russia's military superiority.

This is really good and well worth the hour. Awesome review in detail of just how badly Putin has trashed the Russian economy.

sure but that isn't the only military hardware requiring chips and if you are thinking this is a short walk over war why would you prioritize cruise missiles? The idea that EVERY OTHER level of this plan was 3 days and done, but somehow this aspect they planned for long term doesn't make any sense.

Putin gave his troops 3 days worth of supply. Why would he even have considered stockpiling chips? And which chips? They aren't universal. I really wish folks would stop bandying around this expression as if they are a plug and play component that can be used in anything. It hurts my brain.

as noted above, chips aren't like sending screws. They are far more specific. So no it isn't like China can raid the Apple factory and say here are a bunch Vlad. On top of that as others have noted it is highly unlikely China is going to spare much of anything for Vlad. I don't think China really wants to expend any effort on this. They see the handwriting on the wall and know that what they want from Russia can be gotten a lot easier if Russia fails. They would also like this to end. The hyper activity in the West of rearming and sanctions is an uncomfortable situation for Xi. Russia as a military ally is completely off the table now. This war has shown how little Xi can rely on them as an effective partner.

The pic at the end of Putin crying is priceless

got him earlier today,

the point was more that they'd fail just like the rest of their crap

I'd think if there was a sane mind over in the Kremlin at all they'd be real scared to push the nuke button for fear they'd either just blow up in their silos or land in Russia. Better to just threaten to use them.. kind of like they should have just used their army to threaten.

The thing the NYTimes misses is these IT folks aren't some separate industry from the energy and metals. You need those techs for those industries as well. When computer systems for those industries need support... ooops.