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5/ You don't need to blow something up if you have the resources to march on it and THEN blow it up. You don't even need to march on it if you have the resources at the right location such that you could march on it as soon as you want.
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6/ One extreme version of this in naval warfare is the "fleet in being" - if you have sufficient assets in a harbor that COULD sail at any time and defeat enemies in area X ... the enemies will never sail to / invade area X.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being …
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7/ In war, in war games, heck, even in chess, this dynamic appears all the time. I don't have to seize your knight - I move my pawn to a location that your knight can not move into that area without being captured. Often these dynamics work 3 or 4 layers deep.
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9/ you're going to insert some armor or an infantry force - and/or keep them supplied - BEHIND RUSSIAN LINES - using drones? please stahhphttps://twitter.com/JNwk14/status/1500243373730537473 …
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10/ No. Logistics challenges are measured in tens or hundreds of tons per day. E.g. > An armored division of the Army can use as much as 600,000 gallons of fuel a day.https://twitter.com/JNwk14/status/1500248208626311169 …
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11/ I never said that this was "all roads". I said that if the Russians control THOSE roads, they control the areas around them.https://twitter.com/KDelchev1/status/1500249311308832769 …
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Best war maps neither color areas nor roads, they show where troops are deployed:https://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com
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Both maps make the assumption that Russia's control over the areas behind its front is uniform in magnitude, which is wrong too. The most accurate map is a solid red blob near the front, fading out to translucent tendrils along the roads leading back to Russia.
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Rear-area security is hard. It takes tons less force to meaningfully screw up supply lines than it does to secure them.
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