Tiller Modern European Campaigns and logistics

[Tempest5]

Well for one thing the US Army did not incur 9800 KIA in 3 weeks heading to Baghdad! Let alone losing assorted Generals.
And they took Baghdad.

The amount of news and RAW information (OSINIT /twitter) available online in mind boggling. Now after you read it all and think about it, keeping in mind FOW and propaganda, you come away seeing the Russians are doing EVERYTHING wrong in OPERATION Z.
Off the top of my head.

1)Poor preliminary intelligence of adversary
2) Failure to gain air superiority or secure airfields
3) Indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas
4) Failure to secure rail lines/nodes to supply army
5) Not enough trucks in good repair to supply army
6) Failure to secure road network for truck convoys
7) VERY insecure communications

I remember various talking retired General/DoD Analysts talking leading up to the invasion about Kiev falling in within 72 hrs before the invasion. Really?! A simple Wikipedia search on the Battle of Hue in Vietnam between the USMC and NVA Regulars and Battle of Falluja with the USMC and Iraqi Insurgents...Both cities took a MONTH to take. And neither of the aforementioned cities are the size of Kiev. For me that was when the scales started to fall from my eyes on what I had read about the Warsaw Pact and started me questioning that forces ability. In short-either the professionals don't know what they are talking about or lying;then and now.

There-I said it.

And as far as Communist state being behind the Army. I don't know about that. Institutional corruption was nothing new in Soviet Russia. Logistics has never been a strong suit for the Red Army. That is hinted oh so slightly in this article on supplying the STAGGERING [eye-watering] amount of ammunition needed in the first 2 weeks by the Warsaw Pact for an attack on NATO in the 1980's. Mind you we are not even talking about food and fuel .... traveling in a war ravaged road/rail network with destroyed and damaged bridges in a darken landscape...with sabotage and air attacks.

https://www.alternatewars.com/WW3/WW3_Do...N-1989.htm

These various links I found in other sites forum posts got me to thinking about how I should look at Red Army logistics during the earlier 'Cold War' era. One is a gaming site.

https://rockymountainnavy.com/2022/03/09...my-supply/

https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feedin...logistics/

https://www.scmglobe.com/russian-logisti...f-ukraine/

Anyway-that is all I have. Enjoy.