Rob Lee

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Rob Lee @RALee85

Ukrainian forces smartly retreated back to more defensible terrain and cities during the opening stage of the war. Once Russian forces progressed farther into Ukraine, its forces became more dispersed and less supported, and they couldn't achieve numerical superiority. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm very interested in looking at force ratios from this war, but Russia's invasion force was far smaller than the numbers here suggest (probably 80k troops in the 125 BTGs) and Russia's strategy didn't mass its forces at critical points. So it often did not achieve 3:1 or 2:1. — PolitiTweet.org

Early in their invasion of Ukraine, Russians had numbers on their side: the 3:1 rule, the ratio by which attackers… https://t.co/PwI1Jn9Iig

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In some ways, we're only seeing a useful force ratio comparison in the fighting in the Donbas where Ukrainian forces are defending and Russian forces are conducting a deliberate, and better supported, offensive. But Russia doesn't appear to have a numerical advantage there. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 14, 2022 Hibernated