Members of the Kyiv Territorial Defense Unit train in an industrial area of Kyiv shortly before the Russian invasion.
RT.com – Aug 28, 2022
During its conflict with Russia, Ukraine has been relying on a US-developed doctrine that involves both the military and civilians taking part in defensive activities, CNN reported on Saturday.
The Resistance Operating Concept (ROC), which is said to provide a blueprint for smaller states to counter larger powers, was developed in 2013 in response to Russia’s conflict with Georgia in 2008. It was further enhanced after Crimea’s “nearly bloodless” reunification with Moscow in 2014, which “stunned Ukraine and the West,” CNN said.
The ROC represents “an innovative and unconventional approach to warfare and total defense,” and guides the actions not only of the Ukrainian military, but also the civilian population.
“It’s all hands on deck in terms of the comprehensive defense for the government of Ukraine,” explained retired Lt. Gen. Mark Schwartz, who was in charge of Special Operations Command Europe during the development of the concept. “They’re using every resource and they’re also using some highly unconventional means by which to disrupt the Russian Federation military.”
Schwartz said it was “just incredible to watch… despite the unbelievable loss of life and sacrifice, what the will to resist and the resolve to resist can do.”
Explosions at Russia’s military facilities in Crimea – far from the front line in Donbass – earlier in August were signs that the ROC had been in play, claimed Kevin D. Stringer, a retired army colonel who led the development team for the concept.
Kiev never officially confirmed its involvement in the incidents, but CNN said it saw a Ukrainian government report confirming that it was behind them.
Russia said the blasts at its Saki airfield in western Crimea were the result of an accident, while an ammunition depot in the north of the peninsula had been targeted in an “act of sabotage.”
“Since you can’t do it conventionally, you would use special operations forces, and those [forces] would need resistance support – intelligence, resources, logistics – in order to access these regions,” Stringer said, explaining the alleged actions by Kiev.
Civilian resistance under the ROC includes nonviolent actions such as boycotting public events, labor strikes, and even using satire and jokes as means of resistance. Violent actions, like using Molotov cocktails, arson and putting chemicals in gas tanks to sabotage enemy vehicles, are also part of the concept.
Generally, the doctrine calls for a major PR campaign to control the narrative of the conflict, preventing the dissemination of the other side’s message, and keeping the population united.
Video footage showing destroyed Russian hardware and edited to catchy tunes forms part of the strategy, along with clips of Ukrainian troops rescuing stray animals, and daily addresses by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky – “whether intentional or not,” CNN claimed.
At least 15 countries have taken part in some form of training on the Pentagon’s resistance doctrine over the past decade, Nicole Kirschmann, a spokeswoman for Special Operations Command Europe, revealed.
The program isn’t universal. It’s being tailored in accordance with each country’s population, resources and terrain. CNN’s report mentioned Estonia, Lithuania and Poland as nations that have expressed enthusiasm for the ROC.
The US has lost every war it has started since 1945. Except Grenada, an island about one-third the size of Los Angeles. So the US only qualifies as a loser, and it makes no sense to follow an eternal loser’s tactics.
One thing the US is good at is street thuggery. Three Dutch commandos in the US on a training exercise (in urban warfare no less!) were injured in a shoot-out, two of them seriously. So it seems in the US the best combatants aren’t even in the army. Maybe it’s like that in Holland too.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/three-off-duty-dutch-commandos-041605936.html
Gladio
Don’t worry about it, nothing will happen to your precious Commies & Jew ridden Russian government. We know that virtually all the cabinet positions in the Biden Administration are permeated with Jews, but so is the Putin Cabinet suffused with Semites too: Just a few of these mongrels names: Nabiullina, Siluanov, Shoigu, Lavrov, Mishustin, Shadayev,,,many more…Looks like both Antifa America & Antifa Russia are governed by the same transnational cult of Zionist-Communist Cryptocrats. In other words, if you haven’t figure it out yet, both these States are managed by anti-white Jewish-Commie lunatics, colluding together to slaughter thousands/millions of Aryan Ukrainains & furtively advance WEF policies. Now you know what the actual setup is.
It is very unlikely that any sabotage oprations were carried out by the Ukes on their own. They are simply too incompetent. British special forces are the most likely candidates. Perhaps it’s time for the Real IRA to acquire some serious weaponry.
I think the article is largely propaganda. As to Crimea attacks, think SAS.
The retired general has absolutely no idea what it’s like to fight a peer power. The US hasn’t faught a peer power since WW2.
The Russians are in control and are conducting their SMO as planned. The US has destroyed 60% of HIMARS systems, and can shoot down most projectiles fired by HIMARS.
The Russians killed 200 troops with 1 missile, the following day the Nazis claimed they’d done the same, quoting 200 dead exactly. Of course, more bullshit propaganda.
Using Georgia is pathetic. The Russian peace keeping forces protecting South Ossetia were trounced in days, but unfortunately, Putin allowed NATO special forces to escape.
The way I see things, is that Amerika really believes they will be able to shoot down most Russian nukes. For at least 10yrs, the US changed its policy, or adapted its policy, that using a first strike policy was on the table.
It doesn’t really matter who fires nukes first, because there won’t be much left, certainly nothing in the UK, including Ireland.
Both sides have chosen mutually assured destruction. Russia can’t be sovereign and globally free, then there will be nothing. The NWO, we will be the unipolar power, or there will be nothing.
Both sides have drawn their red lines and so it is just a question of time. In fact, China and the US might kick off first, because China is a much more pressing geopolitical case than a bankrupt backwater called UKraine.
UKraine is only a big thing, because the bankrupt UK has a huge chip on its shoulder in respect of Russia. Hundreds of years, the UK has gaslighted and abused the Russian sheeple, who must never be allowed to benefit form their own industry.
The US joos coup d’état 2014 – Nuland (Nudelmann) & Soros brought a joos government since then and together with the 26 thefts/oligarchs who fled to Tel Aviv & London, taking with them the entire Ukrainian gold, they just owned the Country. So we have Christians on both sides fighting and killing each other on behalf of the Joos.
@Nico X
You sing always the same song…
From the article of Jung-Freud: “Are there genuine Jewish leftists? Yes, and many of them sincerely rejected Judaism and joined humanity. Many Soviet Jews just mixed racially with the goyim and became part of the Russian people (maybe Putin is one of them?) And in the course of history some Jews became Muslims or Christians.
…Letting the Jews recode the West was a serious mistake, even a crime. There is no hope for the West unless it is recoded to free itself from Jewish domination. No wonder the Jewish power hates Russia and Hungary, which rejected the Globo-Gay-BLM regime and have recoded themselves along nationalist and Christian lines.”
https://www.unz.com/jfreud/jewish-leftist-is-a-misnomer-jewish-power-is-ultra-rightist-supremacist-and-imperialist-how-jewish-power-re-coded-the-west-from-pro-white-to-anti-white-and-the-dire-consequen/
Behold, the terrifying spectacle that is the Wooden Gun Squad in the top photo. Try not to piss down your own leg at such a sight…laughing that is, as it certainly wouldn’t be out of fear. The toothpick-skinny ctackhead broad in the back row looking like she’s shitting her pants never fails to give me a chuckle.
Plastic sturgeon beat me to it in his comment at the top, remarking how the Jewnited States military has done nothing but shit the bed in every conflict over the past 80 years. Any country taking combat advice from the Jew-S-A is almost certainly in for a hurting. The only thing that has kept them from a complete and total beat-down in that time and in all those disastrous acts of aggression has been air superiority, dumping f*ck-tons of money into the dumpster fires, and completely not giving a squatting shit about the rules of combat, collateral damage, civilian casualties, general morality, etc.