“you idiots. you absolute fucking morons. we’ve throw people at your defensive lines for three months and spent a puny 60,000 Ukrainian casualties just to waste your engineers’ time building trenches and minefields and dragon’s teeth! who’s owned now, motherfucker!?”
Ok this one I can kind of see it, like squint far enough to see a microbe with a naked eye.
So massive copium here but in a vaccuum it is barely logical that if you build a fort, it would be better to fight inside it rather than outside yeah?
But like this isn’t a kid building sand castles putting toy soldiers around it you know worst case scenario this still only makes Ukraine look bad regardless, its a child’s tale retold as a meme but unironicaly.
“And the King built a castle and ordered his troops to stand outside defying all logic and strategic reasoning, but unfortunately for his majesty’s troops were so bad that *checks notes* they huh defeated the enemy anyway.”
The multiple layered defence is valuable just by existing because it prevents deep attacks and maneuver warfare.
When you have just one super fortified line, you can break that line by creating a threat behind it that makes the soldiers want to fall back to a safer position (they all want to live at the end of the day). By having multiple lines like this just existing you prevent the ability to drop troops behind the enemy lines, such as with paratroopers or helicopters. You prevent the ability to set up a pressure coming from another direction that causes a redeployment pressure on the first line.
In WW2 a major part of the operations was paratroopers landing behind enemy lines in order to threaten the enemy defensive lines preventing landings from another direction, causing those lines to fall back to other positions.
It’s not actually about killing people and “winning” the fights, it’s about creating pressures that cause people to move their lines.
The way these defensive lines are all set up, their existence prevents deep warfare like this. They don’t have to do anything at all other than exist to force the enemy out of using that tactic. Crude drawing of this pressure, the blue triangle being the deep-offensive attacker and the red line being the natural line of redeployment sought by the defenders if they’re under these kinds of pressures:
You can’t do this shit if there’s multiple lines of defence that would then function applying exactly the same kind of pressure on your deep attacker.
same energy
the well known enormous strategic blunder of being too good at holding your lines
“you idiots. you absolute fucking morons. we’ve throw people at your defensive lines for three months and spent a puny 60,000 Ukrainian casualties just to waste your engineers’ time building trenches and minefields and dragon’s teeth! who’s owned now, motherfucker!?”
Only the first defense lines? After so long?
Ok this one I can kind of see it, like squint far enough to see a microbe with a naked eye.
So massive copium here but in a vaccuum it is barely logical that if you build a fort, it would be better to fight inside it rather than outside yeah?
But like this isn’t a kid building sand castles putting toy soldiers around it you know worst case scenario this still only makes Ukraine look bad regardless, its a child’s tale retold as a meme but unironicaly.
“And the King built a castle and ordered his troops to stand outside defying all logic and strategic reasoning, but unfortunately for his majesty’s troops were so bad that *checks notes* they huh defeated the enemy anyway.”
The multiple layered defence is valuable just by existing because it prevents deep attacks and maneuver warfare.
When you have just one super fortified line, you can break that line by creating a threat behind it that makes the soldiers want to fall back to a safer position (they all want to live at the end of the day). By having multiple lines like this just existing you prevent the ability to drop troops behind the enemy lines, such as with paratroopers or helicopters. You prevent the ability to set up a pressure coming from another direction that causes a redeployment pressure on the first line.
In WW2 a major part of the operations was paratroopers landing behind enemy lines in order to threaten the enemy defensive lines preventing landings from another direction, causing those lines to fall back to other positions.
It’s not actually about killing people and “winning” the fights, it’s about creating pressures that cause people to move their lines.
The way these defensive lines are all set up, their existence prevents deep warfare like this. They don’t have to do anything at all other than exist to force the enemy out of using that tactic. Crude drawing of this pressure, the blue triangle being the deep-offensive attacker and the red line being the natural line of redeployment sought by the defenders if they’re under these kinds of pressures:
You can’t do this shit if there’s multiple lines of defence that would then function applying exactly the same kind of pressure on your deep attacker.
I posted this exact thing as a joke right around when the offensive began and it became clear that Ukraine wasn’t able to break through.
Beyond parody.
Edit: Found it: https://hexbear.net/comment/3542974