Russia-Ukrainian war Russian army was in poor combat effectiveness and could not handle Ukrainian for 7 months, and could not even capture Donbas for more than 7 months. The root of all this lies in Russia's blind learning of the US military's way of building a military.
In 2004, the US Secretary of Defense Rumsfield began the US military reform, abolishing Heavy Division and light divisions, and all direct support troops were delegated to combat teams at all brigade levels. Change it to wheeled armored vehicle light troops as much as possible. Simply put, it means giving up the ability to fight large-scale wars, and the army will become special combat, lighter and faster.
This allowed Russian Defense Minister Serdukov, who was a furniture businessman at the time, to learn and start Russian military reform. Learn from the West to carry out division transformation and brigade, abolish middle and senior officers, and at the same time establish a professional non-commissioned officer regiment at the grassroots level, and the troops have completely turned to synthetic and rapid rebellion. In four years, Serdukov laid off 60% of Russian academies-level officers.
At the same time, the Soviet Union's three-level mobilization system was abandoned and the ability to fight large-scale war was abandoned. Blindly copy the American model and commercialize all the military-industrial enterprise left by the Soviet Union. Even logistics imitates the West to engage in commercial outsourcing.
The Russian army easily abandoned the Soviet army's war system, and the one-sided miniaturization made the Russian army look different. Later, construction contractor Shoigu became Russian Defense Minister.
Shoigu began the second round of military reform in Russia. The core of Shoigu's military reform is to establish a large number of battalion-level combat groups. In fact, the battalion-level combat group is a support force with artillery as the core; a battalion-level combat group is stuffed into a battalion-level combat group, self-propelled artillery , rocket launcher , tank , infantry fighting vehicles, armored vehicles , electronic warfare team, drone team, communications, engineering and infantry and other forces.
Unless these battalion commanders of the Russian army are all Rommel, they cannot coordinate to command such a responsible force. Moreover, there were only more than 100-200 infantry soldiers who had so many weapons and support units stuffed in a battalion-level battle group. The maintenance unit was a maintenance platoon.
The Russian army believed that tanks and cannons could win wars. The cannons bombarded violently to destroy the enemy, and the tanks could go up and pursue the enemy. But what if the enemy defends its position to the death? The cannon bombarded for several months and it didn't work? What should I do?
The Russian army now has one or two thousand infantry soldiers in one division, and even the 2 Motor infantry brigades under the 35th Army have only more than 800 infantrymen. Is it still that Russia has a small population, and the Russian armed forces have fewer infantry?
Russia has 1.02 million regular troops, and more than 1 million National Guards, internal affairs, border defense and customs units. However, the army has only 240,000 people, most of these army are tank artillery, , missile, and other technical soldiers, including 30,000 to 40,000.
Russia abandoned the Soviet war system and gave up the human sea tactics, which directly led to the Russian army's ability to large-scale war decline. Without enough infantry, there would be no attack and positional warfare, and even the number of people guarding the trenches was not enough. Without enough infantry, no one would protect the logistics lines. As a result, more than 2,000 logistics trucks were ambushed and destroyed by the Ukrainian army squad.
Without enough infantry, complete control of cities, villages, and traffic lines cannot be achieved. You can't control the vast land area by relying on artillery and tanks.
In 1968, in order to deal with , Czechoslovakia, which had only 120,000 square kilometers, the Soviet army dispatched more than 500,000 troops at once. The army quickly controlled the entire territory of Czechoslovakia with lightning speed. Now, the entire Russian Army has only 240,000 , but the Air Force has more than 400,000, which has raised a lot of idle people.
If the Russian army could invest 1 million troops at once, Ukraine would have been defeated long ago.However, the Russian army adopted the tactic of adding fuel, starting to dispatch more than 100,000, and then mobilized tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers, and then mobilized 300,000 reserve troops. After training, one group would participate in the battle, and continued to add fuel.
The defeat of the US military in Afghanistan is actually due to the lack of infantry. The US troops stationed in Afghanistan have a total of 8,000 people, including only 2,000 infantrymen. How can they control Afghanistan, a mountain country, which is more than 600,000 square kilometers? The result was that the Taliban was drilled into the defense line.
