The Wall Street Journal has a report out describing how NATO’s weapons and equipment were not designed for a conflict against a major power like Russia.
RT:
Some of the West’s modern heavy weapons are not suitable for the Ukraine conflict because their design has been shaped by decades of fighting involving much weaker opponents, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
“A lot of Western armor doesn’t work here because it had been created not for an all-out war but for conflicts of low or medium intensity,” a Ukrainian promoter of drone warfare named Taras Chmut told the outlet. “If you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn’t perform.”
His opinion was one of several cited by the WSJ, as it argued that the prevalence of cheap drones in Ukraine has affected the fighting so much that NATO-promoted approaches simply cannot work there.
This is actually something I have alluded to in the past.
After the 9/11 attacks, the United States and NATO spent two decades waging wars against Middle Eastern countries with weak militaries. Everything was put into fighting the so-called “Global War on Terrorism” which was nothing more than a justification to wage wars against enemies of Jews and Israel. So as a result, much of the gear, equipment, tactics and strategy were built around fighting weaker enemies, nation building etc.. No real thought was put into fighting a major power like Russia.
The results speak for themselves.
