Weeks into Ukraine’s highly anticipated counteroffensive, Western officials describe increasingly “sobering” assessments about Ukrainian forces’ ability to retake significant territory, four senior US and western officials briefed on the latest intelligence told CNN.
Conscription in the framework of modern warframe makes increasingly little sense to me. It’s always been a pretty terrible thing, but one could argue that throwing a pike in the hands of a farmer and pointing them at the enemy had some degree of success. There was definitely a period of history where having more warm bodies than the other side was extremely important.
These days, so much of warfare is conducted without even seeing your enemy, I am not sure how much it accomplishes. Having one more guy on the front lines to get hit by a mortar doesn’t do much, and you probably aren’t putting conscripts on roles like drone operator or artillery from my understanding. Having trained soldiers seems increasingly more important than having more soldiers.
It doesn’t matter how much money you spend on giving fancy gear to your military if the military is comprised of civilians who have no idea how to use them.
Conscription in the framework of modern warframe makes increasingly little sense to me. It’s always been a pretty terrible thing, but one could argue that throwing a pike in the hands of a farmer and pointing them at the enemy had some degree of success. There was definitely a period of history where having more warm bodies than the other side was extremely important.
These days, so much of warfare is conducted without even seeing your enemy, I am not sure how much it accomplishes. Having one more guy on the front lines to get hit by a mortar doesn’t do much, and you probably aren’t putting conscripts on roles like drone operator or artillery from my understanding. Having trained soldiers seems increasingly more important than having more soldiers.
It doesn’t matter how much money you spend on giving fancy gear to your military if the military is comprised of civilians who have no idea how to use them.
Yeah, it’s a desperate tactic and the fact that they’re doing this clearly shows that the war was lost a long time ago.