• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    17 days ago

    Yeah, I thought the doctrine was “crunch all you want, we’ll make more”

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        17 days ago

        That was always the case, the Russians behave like they grow soldiers like potatoes.

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          12 days ago

          They used similar tactics to everyone in WWII. The human wave thing was partly derived from the accounts of ex-Nazis who were sore losers, AskHistorians had an answer about it. I don’t know about Afghanistan, but that was a different kind of war.

          Now, yeah. And it’s going about as well as you’d expect.