Ukraine's mission command wins against Russia's top-down command
“In warfare, morale is to material as is the ratio of three to one.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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“In warfare, morale is to material as is the ratio of three to one.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
A level of mission command or local initiative we're seeing ukraine at all levels. they haven't been able to succeed in any of those levels we would normally expect them to do against a peer or inferior opponent. >> thank you. seven hours, 37 minutes. according to documents obtained, that is the gap in former president trump's phone logs between calls on january 6th. plus, the committee investigating that day just unanimously voted to recommend contempt charges for two former trump aids to doj. we will be live on capitol hill with the very latest on that. first, though, this is a life look a...
Bravery, battlefield adaptation, mission command, they pushed down to the lowest possible level initiative with their junior officers. this is something that the russians have been culturally incapable of doing. and so they will make great use of whatever equipment we are able to send their way but if we underresource them, what's going to happen is more ukrainian lives will be lost and the conflict will be drawn out. we don't want to do that. it's in america's national interest to see ukraine win the conflict and maintain its independence. griff: and colonel, just in the last 30 seconds we've...
Ground, obeying the law of land warfare and all that. we wouldn't want to change any of that because that is really our whole society's built upon that. what we have seen the ukrainians do well and what tends to put the prussians -- russians at a disadvantage is when you can change the nature of what is going on, when you can mix up the tactics, when you can keep the battlefield very fluid, the russians have a very difficult time adapting to it because they don't do mission command well. so the more you can interject change and variety of tactics, the more it will benefit the ukrainians. arthe...
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