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Ukraines counteroffensive is more than just bravadohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/31/zelensky-ukraine-southern-counter-offensive/
This partisan campaign, like the HIMARS precision fire, is a product of U.S. planning and training of Ukrainian forces. Since 2014, U.S. Special Operations forces have been teaching the Ukrainians how to fight an occupying army using special units like the ones that were so effective against al-Qaeda and Islamic State fighters.
Gen. Richard Clarke, who is retiring this week as head of U.S. Special Operations Command, explained in an interview how the United States built up its Ukrainian special operations forces (SOF) counterparts in anticipation of a coming campaign against Russian invaders.
What we did, starting in 2014, was set the conditions, Clarke recalled. When the Russians invaded in February, wed been working with Ukrainian SOF for seven years. With our assistance, they built the capacity, so they grew and they grew in numbers, but more importantly, they built capability, in both combat assaults and information operations.
To prepare to repel the Russian invasion, each Ukrainian SOF brigade last year created and trained a resistance company recruited from the local population in areas such as Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and the Donbas that were likely to be Russian targets. As a result, Clarke said, If youre a Russian soldier today, your head must be on a swivel because you dont know where the threat is. They cant look at any Ukrainian and know if that person is an enemy.
There's a little bit of PsyOPs going on, releasing this now, dontyathink?
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,811 posts)Of the occupied Ukrainians. Deadly.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,479 posts)His lieutenants will follow.
DashOneBravo
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He has a background in unconventional warfare while, Gen Clarke came out of the Ranger Regiment.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,479 posts)But I believe we are now fully engaged with the outcome of the Ukraine War. And Putin is fucked....except he still has nukes. Someone is gonna have to stick the knife or pull the trigger to stop the insanity.
speak easy
(9,249 posts)at the amount of priceless intel going to NATO about Russia's military. This war has been a catastrophe for Putin.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,479 posts)Fuck him, he's going down....and every Putin suck-up ought ti be concerned.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,479 posts)they have fingerprints all over Ukraine. Russia has been exposed for the 3rd world power they are (except nukes).
mitch96
(13,904 posts)They will commit war crimes and just shoot any civilian they suspect of being an insurgent.
Brave people those Ukrainians who do this kind of work...
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speak easy
(9,249 posts)Yes they are. Heroes.