A friend of mine who is quite a student of military history has opened my mind to what Ukraine might be doing.
In WW1 what finally collapsed the German will/ability to fight was a tactic of bite and hold. The allies would attack a section, take some territory, and hold it. Then they’d take another section elsewhere, and just keep making the Germans defend everywhere and expend men and materiel at a rate they couldn’t sustain.
Without dominance in aviation and artillery Ukraine is unable to exploit deep in the way late WW2 allied forces did in Europe. However, Ukraine can bring force to bear where it wants across the front and achieve local superiority.
Also, Russia keeps defending their forward positions, which while they’re reasonably good positions they aren’t nearly as good as their deeper lines. This leads to more casualties.
While Ukraine is fighting with a costly strategy, they have to make the Russians fight to attrit them. This strategy of trying to defend where they’re strong, attack in limited areas where they can establish decent conditions, and continuing to focus on using their limited deep strike to destroy high value targets like SPG’s, radar, air defence, critical bridges, and supply dumps seems to be pretty consistent.
In WW1 what finally collapsed the German will/ability to fight was a tactic of bite and hold. The allies would attack a section, take some territory, and hold it. Then they’d take another section elsewhere, and just keep making the Germans defend everywhere and expend men and materiel at a rate they couldn’t sustain.
Without dominance in aviation and artillery Ukraine is unable to exploit deep in the way late WW2 allied forces did in Europe. However, Ukraine can bring force to bear where it wants across the front and achieve local superiority.
Also, Russia keeps defending their forward positions, which while they’re reasonably good positions they aren’t nearly as good as their deeper lines. This leads to more casualties.
While Ukraine is fighting with a costly strategy, they have to make the Russians fight to attrit them. This strategy of trying to defend where they’re strong, attack in limited areas where they can establish decent conditions, and continuing to focus on using their limited deep strike to destroy high value targets like SPG’s, radar, air defence, critical bridges, and supply dumps seems to be pretty consistent.
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