Turns out that fighting a peer competitor is very different from bombing defenceless people
The NATO style of fighting, so heavily reliant on controlling the skies, has also only been tested in recent years in arenas where the alliance had air superiority, experts say.
“No living member of NATO armed forces has experienced combat close to what Ukrainians have experienced over the past 18 months,” Davis Ellison, a strategic analyst with the Hague Center for Security Studies (HCSS), told Newsweek.
“The NATO way of land warfare has never been seriously tested against a major state adversary, despite decades of investment and training,” he added.
I also love how they keep lamenting Ukraine falling back to Soviet tactics, like you know stuff that actually works in practice.
That’s part of what I meant - it reads with an unspoken assumption that “Soviet tactics” (whatever that means) are inherently inferior to “NATO standards”
Decades of western propaganda are now clashing with reality, and people who’ve internalized it don’t know how to process this.
They believed the old “human waves” myth they themselves spread.