Harmon Rabb
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Perun has General Hodges on his YouTube channel again.
Timestamps created by Perun.
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:01:35 — What Are We Talking About?
00:03:37 — Lessons From The Battlefield
00:03:56 — Q: Ensuring Training Delivers Value
00:07:44 — Q: Training For The Environment
00:12:56 — Q: Keeping Up With Adaptation
00:15:56 — Q: Observers And Lessons Learned
00:19:41 — Q: Lessons So Far?
00:22:28 — Q: Wargaming and Assumptions
00:25:32 — Q: Training Pre-2022
00:28:08 — Q: Evolution Of The Training Mission
00:34:30 — Q: Training Efforts Post 02/2022
00:37:22 — Q: Higher Level Training Requirements
00:40:47 — Q: Force Regeneration
00:43:24 — Cohesion And Training As A Unit
00:44:36 — Answer Pt.2: Force Regeneration
00:46:09 — Training Program Abbreviation
00:47:35 — Evaluating 2023
00:48:21 — Q: Outcome Vs Commitment
00:52:12 — Priorities, Resources & THAAD
00:54:01 — Q: The Path To 2025
01:02:20 — Conclusion
01:03:50 — Channel Update
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7 hours ago, Splinty said:
I put him on Ignore as soon as I saw his User Name.
After reading the last few pages I have a sudden urge to give the ignore feature a try.
Let the record show, this is the first time I have ever used this feature on this forum.
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AFU HIMARS doing its thing. Filmed by a RU drone.
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1 hour ago, The_Capt said:
Or a learning disability. True story (put your helmets on), one of my troops in Bosnia put a round between the guys legs in front of him clearing his weapon…on the first night. He cocked, then took the mag off and fired.
No one got hurt but of course he was charged. At his trial the CO asked him to demonstrate that he knew how to clear a weapon. The guy did the exact same thing! - thank god it wasn’t loaded. The kid has some sort of mental block. He ended up getting fined and doing 10 days CB’d and old-school punishment duty. Teenagers and guns, never boring.
Thank goodness no one was hurt.
Sad thing is forget the right procedure for clearing a weapon. Some people don't even know that ejecting a magazine is not enough to clear a semi-automatic pistol. I have heard stories of some people killing themselves because of this mistake.
I own a few firearms and I support civilian ownership of firearms, but this all reminds me of how important firearms education is.
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21 minutes ago, Beleg85 said:
Whoopsy... traitor and one of possible Gaulaiters in original Russian plan for Ukraine, infamous Ilia Kyva, was found dead in Moscow.
Apparently His last post on Telegram before he died.
Define irony.
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1 hour ago, Haiduk said:
One time I wanted to visit Emirates to see their high-tech paradise in the desert... Now UAE are died for me
I like tall skyscrapers as much as the next guy. When I visit any large city in North America I make a point of visiting the tallest skyscrapers. So far the U.S. Bank Tower in L.A. is my favorite.
But from what I heard about Dubai, while it is a place a lot of people go for work and business. It is kind of overrated as a vacation destination purely for pleasure.
Never went myself so I can't confirm but now that they are hosting a murdering war criminal, I will also never visit it.
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33 minutes ago, Beleg85 said:
Moscow is lately again working heavily on Iranian direction. Axis of Evil seems to have new ugly baby.
Not that I would want to sit down and have a beer with this guy, but I kinda agree with what he is saying here. One of the goals of Russia's invasion from the very beginning was to attack not just Ukraine but also attack our rule-based world order.
I wish more people who support appeasement or don't think this war is worth spending money on, could hear this guy talk. As someone who follows this war on social media to get all those war clips that I post here, I still feel a lot of people just don't seem to get it.
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20 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
Russian Su-24M, which tried to strike Odesa oblast likely with gliding bombs was shot down by UKR AD near Zmiinyi island. The bomber was covered by Su-30M. Destiny of pilots is unknown, Russian resque An-26 is flying in crash zone, but in cold winter sea chances is almost zero, if pilots wasn't captured by Zmiiny garrison.
Fighterbomber TG already confirmed.
President Zelenskyy mentions this news.
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AFU assault and the aftermath of the assault. Video shows some RU KIAs at the end.
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42 minutes ago, cesmonkey said:
I think the problem is that the writer of the news article left a misleading impression, or at least it could be interpreted in such a way that this was the first crew of actual Ukrainians to be trained on the Patriots.
There have been interviews before with Ukrainian Patriot crews talking about their successes, like this one from CNN:In the video from June, the crew says they were trained at Fort Sill for two months.
Correct, I did not mean to suggest that these were the first Ukrainians trained to use this system. Here is a photo from June 2023 that I liked, showing AFU personnel with the system.
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With some of discussions we have been having here lately, I would say this video is highly relevant.
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Good stuff Germany. Ukraine will need these air defence assets for the winter.
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in our military doctrine, to break through the kind of defenses we see in southern #Ukraine, you need an air advantage, and much more. We did not provide that to the Ukrainians," former CIA chief Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview with the BBC The military criticized the slowness of the West and said that it was delays in arms deliveries that caused the failure of the AFU counter-offensive. "There was a delay in making decisions on Abrams, a delay with Leopard. We delayed cluster shells that could have been very useful, ATACMS. And finally, Western-style airplanes." He also pointed to Western mistakes that he believes indirectly led to the war in Ukraine. "Putin decided that he could escape responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine because we did not take sufficient measures after the occupation of Crimea."
At this point I feel General Petraeus and General Hodges can do a podcast on this war together. They seem to have similar views.
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34 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
I strongly suspect Putin will do the exact same thing. Ukraine will go down as a great Russian victory when they pushed back the Western powers and taught us all a lesson by taking back a strip of land south of the Dnipro. Victory or defeat in any war is a meta stable human concept. Both sides in anything but total destruction will claim victory. The trick is to not forget the larger objective each said head at the outset and then judge accordingly.
Another war this war kind of reminds me is the Winter war. In the minds of a lot of people because a much smaller state like Finland still remained independent after it it won the war, but the truth is it also had to give up some territory in the east to the USSR. To this day I see memes related to that war.
Anyway, the part of your post I quoted I agree with and it is what really concerns me, I think we can agree that militarily this war was a disaster for Russia but internally it will be seen as a great victory. This concerns me because while Russia will not be invading anyone anytime soon after this, eventually they can rebuilt. Unlike Perun I'm no expert in military procurement so I don't know how long that will take. If the lesson Russians get from this is they can take territory by force what is to stop them from trying to do this again somewhere else, I'm thinking one of the former USSR central Asian republics where due to geography we will not be able to help them like we helped Ukraine. Hopefully by that time we will do the right think and accept Moldova and Ukraine into NATO and close Europe to Russia. Don't think Putin or whoever may replace him in the future will try to "finish the job" if Ukraine is under the NATO flag.
To close this post up I will share my favorite Finnish meme, just to lighten this post up a little.
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Alright folks, I need some sleep. This is gonna be my last post for the day. I leave you with some optimistic clips of the international community showing solidarity with Ukraine I found on Twitter today, but did not want to post individually.
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Fingers crossed this report is accurate, the less of these things flying the better.
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Clever, the renamed TV channels are like the icing on the cake.
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45 minutes ago, Holien said:
Hmmm I think he is a smart Russian Troll...
That or needs to take a break and up the Meds...
Zeleban is not a Russian troll. I have been following his posts for over a year and he seems like a really honest guy who just says what he thinks. I do not agree with a few things he said in the last few pages but in the grand scheme of things lets not forget he is actually living in Ukraine right now.
He sees this war in a way us who just follow it on the Internet cannot, so lets give him a break for passionately voicing his opinions even if we do not agree with some of those opinions.
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Another one of those things I would not think I would ever see in my life .
Neat.
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10 hours ago, kimbosbread said:
Well, per the ongoing discussion (and demonstrations) of Americans being idiots, can we be surprised? Anybody who has had to deal with the American intelligence agencies, their conferences and their minions is not surprised.
Transnistria and Kaliningrad (and Dagestan and whatever the Chinese part of Russia is) are such obvious, squish soft targets with high payout for low reward I can only imagine terminal idiocy and pussilanimity (sp?) are preventing us from taking advantage.
Another area to watch is Bashkortostan, Good Times Bad Times made a very informative video about it recently. Thing is I think this sort of scenario can happen anyway regardless if the West wants Russia to start breaking up or not.
When people think of the potential breakup of the Russian Federation, I think a lot of people thing Chechnya first due to its history being one of the reasons Putin came to power in the first place. But it seems Bashkortostan is also an interesting region to observe.
I’m no Zbigniew Brzezinski but I think that a lot of us here will see some areas of Russia break up in our lifetimes if not a total collapse of the country. As The_Capt always points out in his trademark eloquent and fact-based posts when this topic comes up, this will not be a world of sunshine and unicorns. We will have some serious issues to deal with and I hope our leaders are taking this possibility seriously, especially in Europe.
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President Pavel is a decorated military officer and in my opinion a hero for what he did in the 90s. I'm sure some folks from Czechia and France who read this forum know what I am talking about.
I think his opinion is worth reading.
QuoteThe current Western defense deliveries to Ukraine were insufficient to maintain a high-intensity operation, Czech President Petr Pavel said when discussing Kyiv's counteroffensive in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published on Nov. 27.
Kyiv's partners did not keep their promise to provide enough artillery shells, and the training on F-16 aircraft is not proceeding as fast as it should, Pavel noted.
In turn, Russia ramped up arms production and mobilization efforts and secured 1 million shells from North Korea, he added.
If the West misses its opportunity to support Ukraine, next year could be more favorable to Moscow, Pavel warned.
The president also pointed out that winter hardships, exacerbated by damaged infrastructure and coupled with growing hesitation among Western partners, will likely cause frustration among Ukrainians and may undermine counteroffensive operations.
Pavel believes that the allies still have an opportunity to change the current situation and tip the balance in Ukraine's favor. Russia's defeat is in the West's interests, as Moscow's victory would demonstrate the weakness of democratic powers to other regimes in the world, he stressed.
"We have no choice but to give Ukraine everything it needs to succeed in its mission to restore sovereignty and control of its borders: anything less will be our failure," Pavel, a former NATO Military Committee chair, commented.
Signs of fatigue and hesitation have been becoming visible among Kyiv's allies, linked by some to the limited success of Ukraine's counteroffensive and the breakout of conflict in Gaza.
Political forces skeptical of Ukraine aid have been growing stronger both in the U.S. and the EU, undermining support efforts and causing concern for the future of the pro-Kyiv alliance.
In his earlier statement on Nov. 9, Pavel said that battlefield developments do not indicate Ukraine can gain the upper hand militarily.
He added that time favors Russia and urged the West to commit to long-standing support to prevent Moscow from securing any kind of victory.
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Russian poor bloody infantry walk through the mud while RU helicopters pop flares in the background.
Ukraine needs more long range weapons like ATACAMS to permanently ground these things.
Personally I would not mind Ukraine be able to strike Russian helicopters inside real Russia also using such long range assets. Not just the parts of Ukraine that supposedly "democratically" voted to become a part of the Russian Federation after Putin's "special military operation".
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Leopard in the snow. Snow Leopard?
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
Posted · Edited by Harmon Rabb
Merry Christmas and a happy new year and whatever other holidays you folks may celebrate on this forum, and more importantly to the AFU personnel fighting the good fight.