Military Tactics
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The Russian publication Chest' imeyu ("I have the honour") has published an interesting commentary on "Tactics of infantry attacks in the Ukrainian war based on the experience of 2...
I was the Sniper Employment Officer for my battalion and led hundreds of combat missions. There were major security lapses in the security plan that allowed a shooter to engage Pre...
๐งตSurvival techniques from Al Sisi, special: 1/3 If scum kills 2 of your best soldiers, pretend nothing happened Skip their funerals while your nation mourns Immediately after the f...
Belloc argued that where you have training and social cohesion, infantry beats cavalry. But when you lose cohesion, better to have cavalry. https://t.co/xtRQq9VZiq
๐งต๐พ๐ช A really excellent speech by Ansarallah Commander Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr El-Din Al-Houthi, explaining the importance of their efforts and why Israel is failing, Here I post t...
Two good posts, and Iโll expand a bit on modern vs. premodern tactics here. For centuries, the superiority of European militaries came not from pure technology, but from *tactics*...
Let's examine the striking similarities between the terrorist tactics of the USA during Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam in the 1960s and IDF terrorist tactics in Gaza today. h...
A short thread on why anti-tank ditches are a very effective but underappreciated way to stop tanks and why you will see more of them in the coming days 1/x https://t.co/Jc2VWTTUTc
In this ๐งตthread, I discuss tactics from the captured Russian manual "Recommendations for countering an enemy operating as tank and mechanized columns," with a specific focus on ana...
๐งตThread: I have recently obtained a valuable russian document titled "Recommendations for countering an enemy operating as tank and mechanized columns." This thread will include a...
Map from earlier today reminded me of an observation I have wanted to highlight throughout the SMO. Coincidentally there was a post by Vostok battalion TG today where (allegedly)...
My latest Substack is on the tactical problem of deployment: how the imperative to get forces on line as speedily and orderly as possible makes it the basically the most fundamenta...
This is a spot-on thread by @LivFaustDieJung. Those who have never done a combined arms breach - in training or combat - will read this thread and say โwow, that sounds near impo...
๐งต 1/16 Russian forces are revamping their assault tactics after experiencing failures with their current structure. The Battalion Tactical Groups (BTGs) are getting replaced with a...
1/ The Wagner Group's 'human wave' attacks, which have left the area around Bakhmut and Soledar strewn with the bodies of dead Wagner fighters, have been described in detail by a R...
Situational awareness is key to long term trading success. The US Air-force developed the OODA Loop for making SA decisions for fighter pilots.
Comparison of Russian and Ukrainian attack schemes: I decided to compare the offensive of Russia in the spring and the counteroffensive of Ukraine in September in order to understa...
The Rail Head thread ๐งต A review on the use of Rail Heads (RHD) in the Corps/Divisional area. Point of embarkation is not considered given their fixed and well equipped nature, focu...
It's so interesting to hear how the US army understands Chinese tactics...๐งต The US prides itself with their so called network-centric, system of systems warfare And PLA tactics a...
Alright team, in light of the ongoing Russian offensive in the Donbass we'll be talking obstacles, protective fortifications, and getting through them. First up will be tactical o...
Long thread about how I think the first 96 hours have gone, still very early/incomplete impressions. The initial Russian operation was premised on terrible assumptions about Ukrain...
Day 1 of Combat ๐งต, Takeaways from available information: 1.Russians broke with their own doctrine of relying on heavy, concentrated support fires....
An habit of fighting in india was "Utara", which was associated with honour, was the act of dismounting the horse and fighting on foot during times of crisis, while soldiers tied e...
The argument that Sirajuddin Haqqani or Abu Muhammed al Jolani must be American agents since the US doesn't launch drone strikes against them is pretty shallow. The US is actuall...
