- Russian forces seized the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka earlier this month but paid a heavy price.
- The ISW said the number of Russian fatalities likely exceeds those killed in the Soviet-Afghan war.
- Russia has often used costly “human wave” tactics to achieve its military objectives in Ukraine.
Russian tactics haven’t changed. Throw poorly equipped bodies at the enemy. When they’re shot down, throw even worse-equipped bodies at the enemy, tell them to pick up the previously fallen’s gear and move forward. Repeat.
“The one with the rifle shoots. The one without follows. When the one with the rifle is killed, the one without picks up the rifle and shoots.”
That part of Enemy at the Gates is so fuckin bleak and sobering.
It’s the Zapp Brannigan method.