... has a rather limited understanding of the nature of REAL war. Not surprising this trash is written by some Ukrainian guy in Harry Kazianis' pseudo military publication.
Throughout the Russia–Ukraine war, special operations forces (SOF, or SSO in Ukrainian) have conducted many raids and missions to probe enemy defensive positions. Examples include Ukraine’s use of SOF probing operations in Bryansk and Kursk in 2023 and 2024 before launching its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August 2024. At the same time, the drone war in Ukraine was rapidly accelerating. By 2025, Kyiv had established a drone wall, with virtually every part of the front monitored by uncrewed aircraft. Conducting maneuver warfare became increasingly difficult, and snipers and special forces operators also faced greater risks. ... ‘Xen’, a former US special forces operator who has worked with a Ukrainian special forces regiment, told me that in 2020, he had worked with a US SOF unit training Ukrainian special forces and that the instruction had been largely one-directional. Drone warfare had not changed battlefield doctrine, and the Ukrainian trainees were learning extensively from the Americans.
Well, I have news for the author of this drivel and VSU "learning from Americans" ... how to lose wars. VSU 100% is dependent on the US' world class ISR and C2, without it and with a steady flow, now chocked off, of supplies it would have collapsed much earlier. Moreover, Russians, while giving due to Ukie stubbornness and courage, have a rather mixed (euphemism for "is that it" surprise) reaction to the US "training", not to mention the fact that American view of "maneuvering" is born out of fighting either backward forces or civilians. In real war, US Army would be pinned down in assembly areas and destroyed.
In general, this type of writing is designed for people with Tom Clancy's "level" of military expertise and lack of any clue about the role of special forces in a large scale combined arms operations. All this talk about drone warfare is a flavor of the season, but reality of countermeasures, as it is natural for people with the mentality of, at best, NCO, centers on the tactical picture. And even here, they still cannot grasp the fact that just today Russia shot down 1,060 NATO drones and will continue to do so as long as it takes. These numbers and resources which sustain SMO are beyond the grasp of the US military planners because the US military is incapable to fight protracted wars. It cannot sustain them and is now in the full retreat into the regional force with nuclear weapons. That's gotta hurt and it shows.
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