Is blitzkrieg still a viable war tactic in modern war?
how different would the war look now if the initial blitz to Kyiv actually succeeded?
Is blitzkrieg still a viable war tactic in modern war?
Is blitzkrieg still a viable war tactic in modern war?
how different would the war look now if the initial blitz to Kyiv actually succeeded?
>Is blitzkrieg still a viable war tactic in modern war?
Depends on who you're up against. Mostly, no.
I still don't know what was the plan with that column.
Putin thought that Ukrainians won't resist because he genuinely believes Ukranian people hate Zelenskiy and the West and that the Maidan revolution was just a minority supported by the West
I don't believe how anyone of sounds mind could think that given the turnout for the maidan protests
>Sound mind
>Putin
You answered your own question, also he gets his info from Russian glowies. Who are basically just a wretched pile of lies.
Zelenskyy assassinated by Spetznas supersoldiers, morale is lost and tanks roll into the city with minimal fighting. These trucks where supposed to arrive in time for the celebrations.
Well, the plan was a decapitation strike and Russia either overestimated their capabilities or underestimated Ukrainian speed and morale.
It’s not like anyone is working with perfect information. You don’t have to say that the Russian military was huffing ideological farts for it to be wrong. The invasion itself was the best of a series of bad decisions, it wasn’t likely to work, they executed it to the best of their abilities, and it didn’t work. Then the rest of the invasion became ad hoc because the Russian regime figured if the decapitation didn’t work and Ukraine was still a country after March 2022, then they were screwed anyway.
Original plan was a repeat of the Prague Spring invasion without any serious resistance, they even had OMON police units embedded with the spearheads thinking the biggest danger was protests like Maidan lmao
>Blitzkrieg
Sounds awfully israeli
quite the opposite mein friend
It does sound very israeli
Something tells me that helicopters, drones and modern stuff like that makes blitzkrieg unviable.
If anything, they make it more viable, the problem is modern reconnaissance, the Ukrainians knew when, where and how many Russians would cross the border and with what material the day before it happened.
I have a close friend who's an intelligence officer and I remember february last year he told me: "Tomorrow it's gonna go boom in Ukraine and we will see if paratroopers are obsolete"
and the day afterwards the invasion happened.
Fact is we have very sophisticated spy satellites pointed at every enemy movement and as long as those are working, you cannot surprise an enemy with maneuver warfare.
Depends on the enemy, if they have a reconnaissance advantage it won't work and you will sacrifice all your armor.
AirLand and AirSea battle with spec ops raids is where it's at.
It works
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Under the condition you have utter and total air dominance raining hell fire on the enemy
kiev was practically defeated in the first days, but then a deal was struck
Prior to Blitzkrieg, entire soviet air forces were olliterated within 2 days.
I am still mad that Ukraine didn't have HIMARS when Russian column was stalled on the way to Kiev. Frick...
Frick, even a couple unguided MRLs.
they did not have that back then
the plan was Czechoslovakia 68. Literally a copy paste of the old vatnik union invasion
We did have like 100 Vilkha missiles, and they all were used up right around that time. It's a shame that tme missile program's money were spent on roads, but it is what it is.
Yes if you have competent soldier, officers and generals, enough armour, artillery etc. to get the job done, good logistics and have enough quality air power
We would have ww3 in 2025 with russia invading the Baltic states and China blockading Taiwan simultaneously. Moldova would be annexed by now as well.
Blitzkriegs shall be waged with UCAVs and AUSVs.