Spodaj je odlomek iz nove knjige švicarskega polkovnika Jacquesa Bauda “The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat“, ki za razliko od “wishhul thinkinga” in neosnovane propagande zahodnih analitikov in “analitikov” rusko “posebno vojaško operacijo” analizira iz vidika ruske vojaške doktrine. Samo na ta način je mogoče razumeti rusko strategijo, operativne akcije in taktično uporabo orožja za dosego političnih ciljev. Kdor ne razume načina razmišljanja in strategije nasprotnika, ne more zmagati vojne z njim. Jacques Baud je nazorno pokazal, kako so ZDA z nerazumevanjem ali ošabnim omalovaževanjem ruske vojaške doktrine Ukrajino zapeljale v vojno z Rusijo in jo pahnile v popoln poraz, ki je bil absolutno predvidljiv od prvega dne vojne.
Razumevanje ruske vojaške doktrine omogoča razumeti, kako je (bo) Rusija z operativnimi uspehi na koncu uspela izbojevati strateško zmago, ki bo mnogo večja od začetnih ciljev vojaške operacije. (Da ne bo pomote: jaz ne navijam za to, gre pač za naravni tek zadev, ki ga je treba razumeti; in kdor se ne potrudi razumeti, nima pravice, da bi njegovo mnenje resno obravnavali)
Opozarjam, gre za dolgo, vendar zanimivo branje. Nekaj odstavkov sem izpostavil.
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Russian Military Thought
Throughout the Cold War period, the Soviet Union saw itself as the spearhead of a historical struggle that would lead to a confrontation between the “capitalist” system and “progressive forces.” This perception of a permanent and inescapable war led the Soviets to study war in a quasi-scientific way, and to structure this thinking into an architecture of military thought that has no equal in the Western world.
The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war. The corollary of this approach is that our frustrations are translated by unscrupulous media into a narrative that feeds hatred and increases our vulnerability. We are thus unable to find rational, effective solutions to the problem.
The way Russians understand conflict is holistic. In other words, they see the processes that develop and lead to the situation at any given moment. This explains why Vladimir Putin’s speeches invariably include a return to history. In the West, we tend to focus on X moment and try to see how it might evolve. We want an immediate response to the situation we see today. The idea that “from the understanding of how the crisis arose comes the way to resolve it” is totally foreign to the West. In September 2023, an English-speaking journalist even pulled out the “duck test” for me: “if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” In other words, all the West needs to assess a situation is an image that fits their prejudices. Reality is much more subtle than the duck model….
The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. The Russians see events as a film. We see them as photographs. They see the forest, while we focus on the trees. That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand. That is why we lose our wars…
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