Drones, anti-drone countermeasures, and electronic defenses are dramatically changing warfare. From Ian DeMartino at sputnikglobe.com:
On July 1, 1916, 110,000 British infantry left their trenches at the Battle of Somme. Within hours, 60,000 of them were killed or injured and the army had achieved none of its goals.
Regardless, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, chief of staff of the British Expeditionary Force and the architect of the battle decided to soldier on, losing an additional 400,000 troops in four months until winter came and mercifully halted the fighting.
The Battle of Somme ended inconclusively and is considered one of the greatest tragedies of the First World War for the British army. Haig appeared to be a qualified general when he took the post, but as the saying goes, generals are always fighting the last war and few personified that more than Haig.
Trained in outdated military doctrine that had already been discredited in the Civil War and again in the Russo-Japanese War. Haig ordered frontal assaults, and not even the kind that were typical (though largely unsuccessful) during the early stages of the Great War. Haig preferred the kind that came out of the Napoleonic era. The general ordered his men to assault the brunt of the German defense using slow-moving, orderly lines, which he saw as easier to command. He planned to send in the cavalry– which often played major roles in Haig’s plans despite their ineffectiveness in modern war– after his infantry broke the German lines.
Time and time again, Haig ordered his cavalry to suit up in anticipation of the coming breakthrough, only to order them to stand down when it failed to come and his infantry divisions were bleeding out in no man’s land between the defensive lines.
Haig was not the only general to look silly during WWI, but his refusal to learn was among the worst. What Somme and many other battles in WWI proved was that the old way of fighting had come and gone. The weapons had changed the battlefield and armies had to adjust their tactics or face ruin.
Yea, but do they have the fabulous bathhouse rainbow rump ranger brigades?
We’re talking fierce warriors with dog masks and butt plugs.
All sides tremble in fear of these Berzerker Legions!
Breaking from Misfits:
Teenagers From Mars
LMFAO! RT (h/t) reports that the Pentagram is looking for books on Russia’s strategy and tactics. (h/t-JR)
Print nothing RF and keep it in house if you do.
Fuhrerprinzip could work for Ivan as you put nothing down on paper after the orders have been issued.
I also respect how RF troops keep their faces covered and don’t show their gear on social media hives.