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Up for some of their losses by bringing troops, for instance, they have in georgia and bringing them into the fight. we are watching that closely, too, but it is very apparent to us that the russians know that manpower is going to be a factor for them. they are losing soldiers every single day. as i said to admiral stavridis, theyre still having unit cohesion problems that are amplifying the problems theyre having on the ground. >> pentagon press secretary, retired rear admiral john kirby. as al...

Their own vehicles so that they would runcl out of fuel and note able to replace that fuel, and we know that they have had morale and unit cohesion problems, born, we think, largely out of the fact that its a con script force, draftees,rc young men who in ma cases had no idea that they were going to be invading another country. they thought they were going on a training exercise am and they clearly werent fully prepared and ready for actual combat. so we know theyre having problems like that. th...

These systems in the field. thats getting lost a lot in the discussion. i think also they have had significant logistics and sustainment problems. they are still having fuel problems. theyre having trouble feeding their troops. definitely they did not plan for a very dynamic way of sustaining their efforts on the ground. number five here is they arent operating jointly. they dont coordinate between air and ground and maritime the way we do in the united states military, and so were picking up lo...