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Now Ukraine is advancing without using offensive orders more platoon or company, and with a

small amount of equipment that provides only support for mobile assault groups, in other

words, there are no mechanized waves of maneuver.

The minus of the NATO school and others is that they are still living an illusion called

a large-scale ground offensive.

Now we see that this whole topic with large-scale offensive is perhaps relevant, but how it

can be realized in the Ukrainian realities, it is not clear.

And the question that all military analysts and observers are asking now is as follows

: "Is this large-scale ground offensive even possible or not?".

We see how the wheel of history has taken another turn and the very same attack stormtroopers

that were present in World War I have returned to the battlefield.

This is an important remark, by the way.

In their time, stormtroopers laden with grenades and with the first samples of automatic weapons

in their hands did not just storm fortifications.

They had a very powerful artillery support in the form of Krupp guns, very powerful howitzers,

which plowed and broke up the defense, and then came the stormtroopers.

If the artillery did not cope somewhere, then the attackers became "sad" and they were not

very successful in advancing.

And what do we see now?

HIMARS, M777 howitzer and cluster munitions have replaced the Krupp guns.

And then again in the battle there are stormtroopers, platoon or company level.

There are not even brigades organized into tank, mechanized battalions.

Such as in the Sinai Peninsula, when hundreds of Israeli tanks were moving and there were

tank battles, there is no such thing.

And doctrines have been built around this.

And this also applies to demining, doctrines are also left over from the time when there

were no wedding mavics, FPV drones and other ubiquitous intelligence on the front.

You create a sterile area with the means of defeat, prevent the enemy from interacting

with that area in any way, where you'll have your undercover combat engineers working.

And the enemy, according to classic doctrine, is ground observers, is field reconnaissance.

These are not drones that didn't exist before, the observer is far away somewhere.

And you keep him under fire control so he can't see until your engineers have cleared

some area.

Now, that's impossible.

You make a sterile area, you keep it under fire control, but the enemy just picks up

a drone, sees everything at once, and aims everything he can point there.

From kamikaze drones to artillery, helicopters and so on.

Or airplanes come in and start dropping guided aerial bombs.

The problems are related to this very aspect.

Nevertheless, the Ukrainian General Staff is finding effective solutions, and the AFU

is able to move forward with these assault groups with the support of means of defeat.

The Ukrainian Liberation Forces are showing incredible success in this sense in terms

of adaptation and ability to solve combat tasks in such unrealistically difficult conditions.

The main motivation of the Ukrainian military command is not to conduct a large land maneuver,

but to preserve as many people as possible, as many military personnel as possible.

Still, the main resource, no matter how much equipment the allies give to Ukraine, is people,

these are Ukrainian defenders.

50 countries are helping Ukraine, there will be aid, there will be equipment, it is clear,

the same Zaluzhnyi understands it.

But no Rheinmetall will produce people, people are the most important thing.

Therefore, choosing between fast, but with heavy losses, or slow, but with fewer losses,

Zaluzhnyi chooses the second option.