Comments on: The Kherson Khatastrophe https://didacticmind.com/2022/11/the-kherson-khatastrophe.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jack https://didacticmind.com/2022/11/the-kherson-khatastrophe.html#comment-7570 Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23:18 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=16824#comment-7570 I think that, operationally, Surovikin had little choice. He absolutely cannot afford to lose the dam and then the nuclear plant. Yes, they had to pull back from Kherson; they evacked a bunch of citizens and I presume they are being fed and house in relative safety. I, too, hated to see this happen but the alternative would be a real disaster not some negative, temporary optics.
So, the Russian peoples are unhappy. Would they have been more happy with a destroyed dam, a flooded nuclear power plant and widespread damage and loss of water supply for the whole region?
Lets be even more realistic. I think the theater commander came into his new mission with Kherson already in trouble with the west and its idiots already threatening to do major damage. He had no choice. Yes, it was a great job of deception, removing endangered civilians, and a fighting retreat. Although, the fighting part of it was minimized as I see it by Ukraine forces that have be systematically destroyed, often in detail.
Putin is lucky to have such a general. And, eventually, even the uninformed critics will have to admit that. It is refreshing to see a people and army that keep their eye on the prize and, seemingly, are not affected by media focus on shallow optics and lack of knowledge of the operational art [stole that from Swartzcroft and another war].
I’m liking this Russian general more and more.

]]> By: Robert Wood https://didacticmind.com/2022/11/the-kherson-khatastrophe.html#comment-7565 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:38:17 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=16824#comment-7565 I see all this water on the map and I think ‘Can you not use barges as your supply line? Why are you restricted only to railways and highways?’

Is it an air superiority problem? Are barges on the water a vulnerable to NATO-sponsored air and helicopter strikes, and the Russians cannot maintain air superiority in a theater? What an opportunity to show off your vaunted fighter craft in an active theater…or is it like the Turkducken of the west, the supply chain can’t sustain the front line work load of these craft?

Excellent write-up, as usual. Thank you.

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