Xerxes22
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What steps do u suggest to turn artesh into a competent fighting force ?The issue is IRGC is Iran’s only true force that is contract soldier like.
Artesh is mostly just conscripts who were sent to sad bazi for 18 months then discharged.
Iran’s IRGC generals have their flaws like Russians don’t carry much about protecting soldiers and will take high losses to achieve an objective. But generally they are very capable. If they were not, you couldn’t have so many successful miltias around the Middle East be developed.
Even Pentagon assessment is when it comes to building up relationships and foreign legions with cohesion...Iran ranks ahead of Russia and China in this regard.
That being said IRGC and generals are a limited quantity. Artesh needs to be Iran’s workhorse in case of defending itself in a major war.
Artesh is Iran’s weakest link, yes it has special forces units and very capable units like NOHED, but those are again limited supply and numbers. What you need is your main force of 250,000 Artesh to be competent and an effective fighting force of decently trained soldiers.
Putin himself said NATO vs Russia there is no comparison. NATO would crush Russia. But Putin made it clear nuclear weapons would be on the table in that scenario to
A) deter that type of conflict from even occurring
B) if it does occur then leveling the playing field by destroying large parts of NATO in early days of war via tactical nuclear strikes
Mariupol is gone. Next stop Kharkov. The whole of ukraine must be annexed. To compensate for the russian lose, there can be no acceptable victory other than the total annexation of all Ukrainian territory.
My question here is ...i thought russia had close to a million active serviceman. Why do they not deploy 100k more ? Surely this will help secure donbass quicker ?Following Rob Lee on Twitter who is a very respected source in the OSINT/WAR commentator community has given many a more sobering wakeup call as to what has been happening to the Russians in Ukraine.
I can't believe I'm saying this.... but Russian MOD needs to abandon (which they already are) many vectors of attack and consolidate the breakaway regions just so they can walk away with something. If Ukrainian forces gain moment (which they have) then we can genuinely see more devastating counter-attacks against Russian forces, even in the areas with their presence is heaviest.
RuAF, ISR, Command structure, logistics, pre-war planning, strategic initiative and most important combined arms warfare. Has been a resounding failure.
They're running low on PGM's cannot risk dipping into the stocks meant for NATO targets. A point easily provable by the near immediate use of dummy-bombs by Su-34s and Su-25s early on in the conflict, fly-low...... FLYING LOW!!!!