“The lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50 entrenching tool is particularly mythologised in Russia,”
The Brits said dryly, and noted, “Little changed since it was designed in 1869, its continued use as a weapon highlights the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterize much of the war.” The apparent use of these land war shovels for close-quarters combat in Ukraine “is probably a result of the Russian command continuing to insist on offensive action largely consisting of dismounted infantry, with less support from artillery fire because Russia is short of munitions,” according to the Brits.
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This second item is reminiscent Russian tactics in WW2 (and apparently earlier wars as well).
One key to Russia’s recent successes approaching Bakhmut:
“Wave after wave of near-suicidal assaults” from the Wagner group’s “disposable penal battalions,” the Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov reported from the nearby city of Chasiv Yar on Sunday
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Defense One Series
Part 3 Covers the current state and the
future plans for the US Army over the next Decade.
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