General Valery Gerasimov’s Great Ukrainian Disaster

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General Valery Gerasimov’s Great Ukrainian Disaster
By Peter Layton
March 14, 2022


How did we end up here? We all thought Putin's modernized Russian army was ten feet tall and led by a General who, in military thinking circles, is a veritable rock star. What gives?

Chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, in 2013 wrote a famous article that with Russia’s 2014 capture of Crimea was seen as a how-to-guide for overthrowing governments in nearby countries. Russia would use social media and covert interference to turn the population against its government, use economic measures to make it poor, and diplomatic measures to make sure it had no friends. Right at the end of this long, drawn out process, a small Russian invading force would attack, inspiring the populace to rise up and mount a coup that would install a pliant leader.


Good in theory, and many bought the idea across the world.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2022/03/14/general_valery_gerasimovs_great_ukrainian_disaster_821552.html

[Kamaji]

Today’s Russian army is not designed to fight a war of invasion – it’s too small, not properly equipped, poorly trained, and lacks the will to fight.

Wrong war, wrong army, wrong time, but this creates problems for Ukraine.

[catfish1957]

I hope the citizens in Ukraine make this Putin's last adventure outside his borders.

I wonder if the Turks sense this vulnerability, and will test their "Ottoman legs". Unfortunately, this might be the spot we most regret a NATO alliance.

[Restored]

Russia's military is much like a sound room in a stereo store. It's designed to sell products, not listen to music. Russia has lots or products to sell but they spent less time teaching their own people how to use it. Russia was very good at making videos about their products.