Whether it is military strength or economic strength, Russia and Ukraine are not on the same level. This kind of power comparison made most people have one-sided imagination of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict at first - It would be a matter of minutes for Russia to teach me a lesson? Not to mention NATO 's support for Ukraine, shouldn't international relations be one of the factors that affect the war? We can’t beat a war if we win, and blame the world if we lose!
Russia is known as the "combat nation". The reason why such a "world-renowned" title is not because the Soviet Union won the Patriotic War, but because the Russian nation is martial and war-oriented. Of course, a small setback on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine is not a problem for the "fighting nation".
Because we look at Russia's war history, we found that although Russia (including the Soviet Union) launched and participated in many wars, it really won less and lost more, but this does not prevent Russia from becoming the country with the largest land area in the world.
Hello everyone, this is the Breaking Wall Investigation Bureau. Today we will sort out the five major wars of "strength and weaker" in Russia's history, and use this to discuss a question "Is Russia a martial but not good at fighting"?
NO.5
The First Chechen War
The First Chechen War took place from 1994 to 1996. It was a military conflict between the Russian Federation and the Cacacia
Muslim militants claiming to be "Ichikria Chechen Republic " " The war lasted for two years, and finally ended with the heavy price paid by the Russian Federation government (according to official figures, the number of deaths in the Russian army was 3,826, the number of wounded was 17,892, and another 1,906 were missing), and finally withdrew. The strategic goal of the war was not achieved, and Chechnya won the war result.
Although Russia had just completed the collapse of the Soviet Union at that time, the federal state had just been established, However, compared with the small Chechnya, this must be a war of "strong vs weak", right?
From the post-war summary, the Russian government army made many low-level mistakes in this war: The Russian army was very inadequate in preparation and rushed to fight. In fact, 60% of the troops were temporarily formed during the departing process. The Russian military is undecided in combat decision-making, and the top leaders of the Russian army repeatedly made trouble. Although they realized that the strategy of quick battle and quick decisions must be adopted to deal with Chechen armed forces, the Russian army was slow to act, fighting and stopping, and constantly trying to make peace with pressure (if war is not fought, it is enough, and if you fight, you have to fight to the death). Another more important point was that the Russian army's command system was in chaos at that time. The Russian Minister of Defense, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Border Defense Command all issued orders, requests and instructions to the frontline troops, seriously interfering with the command of the frontline commanders. In addition, at that time, the Russian army had a problem of information disconnection. After the war began, the Russian reconnaissance system knew nothing about the battlefield information such as firepower allocation and bunker settings in Chechnya.
NO.4
Russian War
Russian War took place from 1904 to 1905. It was a war between the Russian Empire and Japan at that time to compete for the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China. The result was that Japan won, and the two sides signed the " Portsmouth Treaty ".
At that time, Russia was already a major industrial power in Europe, while Japan had just completed the Meiji Restoration . In terms of economic strength, Russia had the advantage. Russia had a standing army of 1.05 million troops at that time. After the war broke out, it carried out nine mobilization orders, recruited 1.2 million troops, and the total tonnage of naval ships was more than 800,000 tons. In the early stage of the war, Japan had a total force of 375,000 troops, and in the later stage, the total force of mobilization reached 1.18 million, and the total tonnage of warships was more than 260,000 tons. Russia is ahead of Japan.
The reason why Russia lost this war can be summarized in four words - Internal and external difficulties. external factors, at that time, Russia had to deploy 90% of the country's troops in the west, and the Far East was short of troops. After the war started, Russia realized that it was not a good thing that the territory was large, and it was too difficult to transport troops. From an internal perspective, Russia was corrupt at that time, and the commanders on the front line of the Russo-Japanese War were mostly incompetent, and some generals even had inaction. Another factor is that Russia focused its strategy on Europe at that time, and the logistics supply of the Far East garrison was very poor and morale was low.
NO.3
Supre-Polish War
Supre-Polish War took place from 1919 to 1921, and it was the territorial dispute between the then Soviet Russia and the Second Republic of Poland . Note that the "Soviet" here is not the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Russia. The Soviet Union was established only a year after the end of this war. The result of the war is Polish victory. The two parties signed a Riga contract, which is beneficial to Poland. The war caused the Soviet Union to pay a heavy price and had to adjust its foreign policies.
This war Soviet Russian Red Army invested a maximum of 790,000 troops, and two fronts were divided into two attacks on Poland. Poland invested 500,000 troops at its peak.
Speaking of the reason for the failure of this war, the first thing is the influence of the extreme "left" thought of the new Soviet Union's red regime, and their leaders' foreign policy starting point is based on ideological , to arouse the proletarian revolution around the world and completely eliminate imperialism. This idea was a bit out of place at that time. In addition, there were some problems within the Red Army . At that time, the Red Army and the White Army fought for years, showing signs of fatigue. The main commanders had big differences, bad relationships, and there was no mutual support at critical moments. , while Poland is in a high morale, nationalism reaches its climax, and soldiers shouting the slogan "Poland will not perish" and heading towards the battlefield.
NO.2
Crimean War
Crimean War, known as Eastern War by Russia, broke out and from 1853 to 1856, it was Russia and the Ottoman Empire who started the war for power in Asia Minor. The battlefield was mainly in Crimean Peninsula . This is also a war in which Russia fought against the European Union alone. The other side was British Empire , French Empire , Ottoman Empire, and Sardinian Kingdom coalition. As a result of the war, Russia was defeated and was forced to sign the " Paris Peace Treaty ". This war not only caused Tsarist Russia to lose 500,000 troops, but also caused the then Tsar Alexander II to die in hatred.
This war is also known as the " The Ninth Russian-Turkish War ", and the two sides of the war were mainly Russia and the Ottoman Empire. At that time, Russia gradually became stronger and its strength completely surpassed the Ottoman Empire after the development of tsars such as Peter I and Caterina II. The Ottoman Empire is on a downward path in history, firmly complacent and gradually declining.
The failure of this war is mainly due to the huge mistakes in Tsarist Russian diplomacy. Tsarist Russia did not handle its relations with Britain well, and eventually led to Britain and France becoming allies of the Ottoman Empire. The participation of Britain and France directly changed the balance point of the war. Russia's artillery and ship speed were far behind by the British and French armies. At the same time, Tsarist Russia has not been able to handle its relationship with Prussian and Austrian . It originally brought them to be allies, but was deceived by the "rebel duo" at the same time, and the war layout fell into a passive position. What is even more ridiculous is that Austria took this opportunity to copy the rear of Tsarist Russia and occupied the two principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia controlled by Tsarist Russia.Secondly, Tsarist Russia's corrupt government system and peasant uprisings broke out in the country, as well as backward weapons and equipment and transportation systems are all one of the reasons for Tsarist Russia's failure.
NO.1
Afghanistan War
Soviet-Afghanistan War broke out in December 1979. The war lasted for 10 years. This war was considered the biggest failure of the Soviet Union's foreign policy. During the war, the Soviet Union was strongly condemned by most countries in the world. The war was caused by the Soviet Union's strategic attempt to open up the Indian Ocean and control the Central Asian hub in order to achieve a battle with the United States. The war resulted in . Afghanistan won 3. The Soviet Union was forced to withdraw its troops. The war consumed $20 billion and dragged down the Soviet Union, which was also considered to be one of the causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In terms of strength, the Soviet Union and Afghanistan at that time were just a watermelon and a sesame seed, so we don’t need data to explain it.
Why did the Soviet Union lose such a war with huge differences? From an objective perspective, the Soviet army fell into Afghanistan's extremely patient " guerrilla warfare ". It seems that no country's regular army can crack guerrilla warfare, including the US military. In addition, Western countries at that time provided huge assistance to Afghan resistance forces. From a subjective point of view, the justice of this war is generally questioned, including the Soviet soldiers participating in the war. Since the beginning of the war, the morale of the Soviet army was not high. The question that the Soviet soldiers thought the most was: Am I a liberator or an invader?
Finally asked two questions: If you compare the above five wars with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, what kind of analysis will you make about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict? Do you think that the "combat nation" is indeed a martial but not good at fighting?
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The author of this article is a full-time author of the Breaking Wall Investigation Bureau: Guanhai
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