Here's why Ukraine’s battlefield achievements are incredible.
Ukraine is not fretting over the grim statistics. Right now, the country is waging a successful offensive. But the task ahead will be monumental. Even if Ukraine devoted every single active-duty Ukrainian trooper to a proper combined-arms attack, Ukraine’s cadre of about 333,000 “front line” troops will be hard-pressed to progress.In the two-month long 1944 battle of Normandy, the Allies, after the D-Day landings, concentrated almost 1.
Fortified defense lines are tough to break by a feat of arms alone. In the last two years of the Korean War, after the Korean battle front stabilized around the 38parallel, thousands fought—and thousands died—to win a just few meters of ground. If Ukraine can break through later this Fall, sweeping through to the Azov, and potentially taking Crimea, Ukraine will have done something epic—and it will have dramatically reduced the battle front.
Adding to the challenge, the Ukrainian Army is waging an offensive while still training up. According to reporting by, some 41,000 Ukrainian troops have been trained by the West. Again, this might sound great to an observer, but, unfortunately, training is relative. In total, a small fraction of Ukraine’s front-line ground forces received Western training, and only a fraction of these forces got anything more than a single five-week infantry training course.
Compounding the challenge, Ukraine’s allies have been slow to realize that training outcomes are a moving target. Ukraine knows artillery and has been modernizing their artillery forces since 2014. Training has gone well. France, for example, only needed to train a handful of Ukrainian solders to make the French-built CAESAR self-propelled howitzer a battlefield success.
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