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#Russia: The doggedness of Russian armies performing badly. Victor Hanson, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#Russia: The doggedness of Russian armies performing badly. Victor Hanson, Hoover Institution.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/07/16/have-we-forgotten-the-russian-way-of-war/


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This is CBS I On The World with John Bacheler.

0:40.0

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0:42.0

I read from Victor Davis-Hansons the Second World Wars, how the first global conflict was fought and won.

0:49.0

This is about the conduct of the Soviet Army.

0:53.0

75% of Soviet tank crews did not survive the war.

0:57.0

Over 80% of all T-34s, possibly the best all around tank of the war, were destroyed or disabled.

1:04.0

Those details from a victory, a victory by the Soviet Army, between 1941-42 and 1945-46.

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I welcome Victor Davis-Hanson himself, the author of this book, who writes most recently to reflect upon what to make of a Russian army,

1:26.0

that overwhelming numbers and vast superiority in strike force at the point of attack in February of 2022,

1:36.0

did not run over the Ukrainian defenses, thrown up very hastily with citizens with no training getting weapons

1:44.0

and told to go to the frontier and battle Soviet armor, how they did not overrun Kiev,

1:50.0

and how they remained bogged down behind trenches that were-remind of their done.

1:55.0

And yet, they're not done, they're not quit.

1:58.0

They haven't left the field, low morale, out of ammunition, commanders running mutiny and still.

2:04.0

Victor, is there one explanation for how what we have here is two armies, one Russian army, defending the Motherland,

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