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Professionals talk logistics

Stalled Russian convoy. March 4, 2022.

Putin is making the same mistakes that doomed Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union, reads John Blake’s CNN headline this morning. “The once-vaunted Russian army has become bogged down in Ukraine not just because of fierce resistance but by something more prosaic: logistics,” Blake writes:

Putin has struggled to feed, fuel and equip his army. There have been reports of Russian troops looting banks and supermarkets, tanks running out of fuel, and soldiers using substandard forms of military communication — like smartphones — that have contributed to what Ukraine says are the deaths of at least seven Russian generals.”

The evidence suggests that Putin thought he could win a quick victory with the deployment of special forces and airborne units,” says Ian Ona Johnson, a professor of military history at the University of Notre Dame. “So when they were forced to go to a much more traditional war involving essentially most of the Russian army along the Ukrainian border, they weren’t prepared for some of the logistics.”

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The scale of the fighting in Ukraine today doesn’t approach the Eastern Front [WWII], but the lesson from both wars can be summed up in a military maxim attributed to Gen. Omar Bradley, an American general during World War II:

“Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.”

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