Analysis of Russian Military Tactics

And this argument, of course, fuels the claim

that the Russians are suffering massive casualties on

a daily basis and well over 100,000

Russians have died or been

severely wounded.

These numbers are ridiculous. There's no question

that the Russians have suffered a few hundred thousand deaths.

I don't deny that for one second.

This is deadly combat for sure. But the

idea that your average Russian recruit

only lasts somewhere between 20 to 30 hours

is, I think it's fair to say, ludicrous.

And in fact, if you look carefully at how the

Russians are waging the war, they are

waging it in a way that is designed to

minimize the number of casualties.

This cannot be emphasized enough.

The Russians are moving very slowly and very carefully,

and they are privileging firepower over

manpower in their assaults. They want to do everything they

can to use firepower to eliminate the Ukrainian

forces before they bring

soldiers to bear in the fight.

And

the reason here is that the Russians are deeply

interested in not seeing their fighting

forces die in large numbers. I mean, you

occasionally see reference to the fact that Russian commanders

force their troops to engage in frontal attacks

where they get mowed down by

Ukrainian firepower. There's no evidence that

this is happening. The Russians are not engaging in frontal attacks.

They're moving forward in a very methodical way, depending very

heavily on firepower, as I said before, to clear the way

for the attacking forces and doing everything they can

to keep the number of casualties down.