{"id":269523,"date":"2023-06-04T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269523"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:05:01","slug":"the-ukrainian-military-is-in-bad-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269523","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian Military Is In Bad Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 June 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Erik Kramer and Paul Schneider are two former U.S. special operations soldiers who have been in Ukraine since 2022 to train Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n<p>At <em>War on the Rocks<\/em> they <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2023\/06\/what-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-need-to-do-to-win\/\">paint a dark picture<\/a> of the state of the Ukrainian military. Their intent is to get money for more training, thus the real picture may be less dark than they describe. But even if one takes that into account it is still a sad state for an army that has been at war for more than a year. Some excerpts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Based on our nine months of training with all services of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to include the Ground Forces (Army), Border Guard Service, National Guard, Naval Infantry (Marines), Special Operations Forces, and Territorial Defense Forces, we have observed a series of common trends: lack of mission command, effective training, and combined arms operations; ad hoc logistics and maintenance; and improper use of special operations forces. These trends have undermined Ukraine\u2019s resistance and could hinder the success of the ongoing offensive.<\/p>\n<p>What ongoing offensive?<\/p>\n<p>Under mission command, the German Auftragstaktik, the leader disseminates his intent (&#8220;to attack through the northern woods to take town x&#8221;) and authority to subunits that is passed down with the mission to empower subordinates at all levels. Each subunits can make its plans to coordinate and execute the mission as best as possible. The contrast is an order command where every detail of execution is ordered from the top down. Both have advantages but to have a mixed system, as Ukraine currently has, is the worst of all places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/06\/the-ukrainian-military-is-in-bad-shape.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>The Ukrainian Military Is In Bad Shape<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former US Special Forces soldiers who have been training Ukrainian troops paint a grim picture of the state of the army there <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269524,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269523\/revisions\/269524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}