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A catalog of Russian mistakes (h/t to Joe Pac for the idea) [1]

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Date: 2022-11-21

Joe Pac recently wrote an article entitled “Stupid things Russia does on a battlefield. How pathetic. Lets see here -”. He took it a different direction than I do here. It occurred to me it may be interesting to list all the mistakes Russia has made with regards to the invasion of Ukraine (and mistakes leading up to it). I’m going to consider this a first draft as there are so many I am bound to miss quite a few. Please add your own in the comments. I’ll try to update this list and I may repeat the exercise down the road if it proves useful. Additions by others I will mark in brackets [ ] to give proper credit. Anywho, on to the list.

Electing Putin to begin with No emphasis on NCOs for expertise No empowerment of junior officers and NCOs to make decisions Viewing competent officers as a threat to be eliminated Abusive treatment of soldiers Culture of grift in the military Allowing Oligarchs to not deliver purchased equipment Not performing proper maintenance on stored equipment (all the Tanks they were supposed to have) Unwillingness to equip soldiers with expensive equipment (night vision, etc) due to grift Poor and insufficient training Expected Ukrainian Leadership to fold quickly Expected the Ukrainian people to welcome the Russian invasion Believed pre-war bribes to be working (they only seemed to work in Kherson and a few other places) Did not ready proper 3:1 troop ratio for a successful offensive Did not ready nearly enough soldiers to occupy a hostile nation Only planned for immediate Ukrainian surrender or 3 day campaign Attacked in too many directions at once Overly reliant upon rail supply Did not secure critical rail junctions early (such as Kharkiv) Did not properly secure supply lines Grossly overextended supply lines in Northern Ukraine Dug into the ground and other stupid activities around Chernobyl Failed to properly scout out all Ukrainian air defense Failed to target enough of Ukrainian air defense Fail to persist with targeting Ukrainian air defense until it was suppressed. Did not properly support air assault. And then repeated the same poor air assaults again and again and again. No effective combined arms. Tanks used without infantry cover. No training of proper response to an ambush Use of long columns of vehicles in areas of likely enemy activity Large concentrations of vehicles in the open making a target rich environment Poor accuracy artillery Targeting of civilian targets instead of military targets. (both artillery and missiles) Poor scouting (reports of Russian “recon” using loud groups of 20-30 soldiers) Poor perimeter defense Unable to coordinate a large number of forces at once Persist with small ineffective attacks Many targets of attacks have no obvious strategic value Smoking No (or little) use of pallets and forklifts Improperly equipping soldiers Not providing food for soldiers Waiting way too long to mobilize No training at all for recently mobilized troops Designed communication system that needed cell towers Destroyed Ukrainian cell towers their system needed Did not retreat from Kherson when it was clear supply lines could be cut Instead, they sent more troops into Kherson to further strain supplies Continue to hold out in Crimea and southern Ukraine even though supply routes are poor Failure to plan defense in depth resulting in sudden collapse of lines near Kharkiv Persisted in keeping large amounts of troops in Izyum despite no progress there Repeatedly tried to cross a river at the same exact spot even after suffering massive losses on previous attempts Prioritizing looting instead of retreating with military equipment Attempting to hold Snake Island when it’s within artillery range of the Mainland Piss poor design of the Moscova’s anti-missile system which apparently can only track one thing at a time. Not having a unified military command structure in the theater of war [highonthehill] Openly giving preference to private mercenaries over own military [highonthehill] Failing to provide winter uniforms to mobiks being send the war in the winter [highonthehill] Picking a crony with no military experience as Defense Minister in charge of the war (Shoygu) [highonthehill] “General” Putin overruling the military command on strategic and tactical decisions [highonthehill] Committing atrocities to inflame civilians [stratocruiser] Committing atrocities to keep opposing alliance together [stratocruiser] Using unencrypted comms [savethewails] Destroying rail stations instead of rail bridges [savethewails] Failure to target Ukrainian logistics on a sufficient scale Starting the war in the first place [MadScientist] Never trying to learn from the enemy, or from their own mistakes [CMYukon] Not listening to Daily Kos when we tell them to get the F*** out. It’s your best possible move. Really.

Man, I know there has to be more. But I’m at that point where my head is going in circles. I appreciate any and all help with further curating the list.

“Not listening to Daily Kos ...” will be getting bumped down to always be the last. Otherwise I’ll keep things in order. I’ll do my best if suggestions occur simultaneously as already happened as I added a couple at the same time highonthehill was suggesting something.

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[1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/21/2137761/-A-catalog-of-Russian-mistakes-h-t-to-Joe-Pac-for-the-idea

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