Saagar mentioned reading this book in the context of the war in Ukraine, and in particular, the concept of Rasputitsa, which impacted the German advance during the Battle of Stalingrad.
I was actually just reading this morning that the things that you know you never know you're gonna learn until it comes to a crisis like this the Russian military is very dependent on rail and especia...
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Saagar mentioned reading this book in the context of the war in Ukraine, and in particular, the concept of Rasputitsa, which impacted the German advance during the Battle of Stalingrad.
I was actually just reading this morning that the things that you know you never know you're gonna learn until it comes to a crisis like this the Russian military is very dependent on rail and especially because I guess the situation with roads in Russia is not always the best so when it comes to rail and when it comes to their own country they're very very strong but once you get outside of a large network of rail yards that's when you start to have problems and then of course as we've been tracking since this didn't go as quickly as they thought they really weren't provisioned for the long term and so that's why you've seen you know trouble with fuel trouble with food trouble with morale I was also reading most western countries have a sort of system where from the ground you're sending back reports of okay we need these supplies we need these provisions Russia tends to operate more on a sort of push system where there's like a regular basis that they're trying to resupply troops and ration troops and that because this has gone on longer than they ultimately expected they didn't achieve their objectives in the timeframe that they thought that has also been a problem in terms of um reprovisioning and you know so all that being said the fact of the matter is even though the Ukrainians have put up a fierce resistance that was more than most analysts expected the bulk of the military might still lies on the Russian side most analysts still think it's a matter of time before they take Kiev before they you know take Odessa and actually achieve the objectives in terms of the cities that they want to claim here so that's why when we're looking from the outside we're like eh giving up Crimea and the eastern separatist republics that might not be great but that's probably the best that you could possibly get if you put aside the other pieces the giving up having the puppet government the demilitarization so listen that's why this is out of standstill and we're likely to face a long sort of grinding civil war insurgency kind of dynamic
...I just read a Andrew Roberts history of the second world war and this was something that bit the germans in the ass during this battle of stalingrad and they were like hey none of our mechanized inf or mechanized tanks work we're literally stuck in the mud oh and that's how two million people froze in a field in stalingrad so it's something that they're now repeating the mistake of people who've invaded them from the east and napoleon as well apparently it happened to him and the term is so famous that it's a military terminology you know has its own page and everything
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Saagar mentioned reading Andrew Robert's 'A History of the Second World War' in the context of the Rasputitsa, the muddy season in Russia, and how it impacted military operations, referencing past invasions.
I was actually just reading this morning that the things that you know you never know you're gonna learn until it comes to a crisis like this the Russian military is very dependent on rail and especially because I guess the situation with roads in Russia is not always the best so when it comes to rail and when it comes to their own country they're very very strong but once you get outside of a large network of rail yards that's when you start to have problems and then of course as we've been tracking since this didn't go as quickly as they thought they really weren't provisioned for the long term and so that's why you've seen you know trouble with fuel trouble with food trouble with morale I was also reading most western countries have a sort of system where from the ground you're sending back reports of okay we need these supplies we need these provisions Russia tends to operate more on a sort of push system where there's like a regular basis that they're trying to resupply troops and ration troops and that because this has gone on longer than they ultimately expected they didn't achieve their objectives in the timeframe that they thought that has also been a problem in terms of um reprovisioning and you know so all that being said the fact of the matter is even though the Ukrainians have put up a fierce resistance that was more than most analysts expected the bulk of the military might still lies on the Russian side most analysts still think it's a matter of time before they take Kiev before they you know take Odessa and actually achieve the objectives in terms of the cities that they want to claim here so that's why when we're looking from the outside we're like eh giving up Crimea and the eastern separatist republics that might not be great but that's probably the best that you could possibly get if you put aside the other pieces the giving up having the puppet government the demilitarization so listen that's why this is out of standstill and we're likely to face a long sort of grinding civil war insurgency kind of dynamic.
I just read a Andrew Roberts history of the second world war and this was something that bit the germans in the ass during this battle of stalingrad and they were like hey none of our mechanized inf or mechanized tanks work we're literally stuck in the mud oh and that's how two million people froze in a field in stalingrad so it's something that they're now repeating the mistake of people who've invaded them from the east and napoleon as well apparently it happened to him and the term is so famous that it's a military terminology you know has its own page and everything.