You are seeing it every day. The consensus view was that the Russians would take Kyiv in two days. The Russian population is three times that of Ukraine. It has a much larger military and advanced weapons, but here we are in the sixth week of the war and Kyiv still stands. It is a great example of how tactics lag technology. In WWII, the Russians ultimately won on the
I wish that our paradigm for health care was warfare, as it would be better than capitalism. Not as good a paradigm as public health, though. As to the Russians and their warfare, I think you are correct in that their initial attack on Ukraine was based on the Nazi blitzkrieg, and woefully outdated given that we have computers, GPS, and optics systems capable of destroying tanks and aircraft from hand-held weapons. But the Russians still have the technologies of long range artillery and guided rocketry, as well as chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. I imagine we’ll see Putin use these in a fit of psychopathic rage once he fully understands his tanks and armored vehicles are almost useless as a tactic. I would hope that NATO forces would step in. In fact, I don’t really understand why NATO forces don’t land an armed battalion to create and guard a humanitarian corridor for those poor souls stuck in Mariupol right now. If planned correctly, I doubt the Russians would be able to knock it back, and it would be a temporary measure aimed at stopping the war crimes of Putin’s forces.
Well, in another thought linking the military and medical professions, it is so easy to make the cure worse than the disease. Psychopathic narcissistic egomaniacs like Putin are unpredictable and dangerously unbalanced. I really want to do what you say but he is likely to do anything to get his way. It is all about him. Once the nukes start flying the impact may mean the end of civilized life and if there are any humans left, it will be a desperate existence.
I wish that our paradigm for health care was warfare, as it would be better than capitalism. Not as good a paradigm as public health, though. As to the Russians and their warfare, I think you are correct in that their initial attack on Ukraine was based on the Nazi blitzkrieg, and woefully outdated given that we have computers, GPS, and optics systems capable of destroying tanks and aircraft from hand-held weapons. But the Russians still have the technologies of long range artillery and guided rocketry, as well as chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. I imagine we’ll see Putin use these in a fit of psychopathic rage once he fully understands his tanks and armored vehicles are almost useless as a tactic. I would hope that NATO forces would step in. In fact, I don’t really understand why NATO forces don’t land an armed battalion to create and guard a humanitarian corridor for those poor souls stuck in Mariupol right now. If planned correctly, I doubt the Russians would be able to knock it back, and it would be a temporary measure aimed at stopping the war crimes of Putin’s forces.
Well, in another thought linking the military and medical professions, it is so easy to make the cure worse than the disease. Psychopathic narcissistic egomaniacs like Putin are unpredictable and dangerously unbalanced. I really want to do what you say but he is likely to do anything to get his way. It is all about him. Once the nukes start flying the impact may mean the end of civilized life and if there are any humans left, it will be a desperate existence.