We don't talk enough about the terrain in Ukraine...its maneuver hell! US forces would operate almost exclusively at night there...

Video from Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade showing Javelin ATGM and artillery strikes on a Russian armored column.https://t.co/wyxHWiUhOu pic.twitter.com/yQg2EtqYUl

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) March 30, 2023

Ya'll are gonna focus on the action but I ask you to step away and look at the terrain.

That is maneuver hell (unless you're doing a thunder run)!

Open farmland with strips of trees by roadways with water obstacles all over the place?

Cities placed in weird places that aren't by passed but fought over?

I'm not sure how the US Army would do an "assault on Ukraine" in a fictional world, but I imagine one of those now obsolete Penetration Armored Divisions would blast thru destroying everything in sight with support of a couple of Air Force Expeditionary Air Wings and then they'd drop light fighters in behind to clean up any resistance and probably grab every Military Police they have to deal with civilians/POWs.

Regardless, we need to take the terrain of this place into account when talking about this war.

If either side had the ability to have the now "old" Gorgon Stare Concept then light infantry with anti-tank missiles and HIMARS lobbing missiles would get clobbered.

I'm not sure there are any battlefield lessons to learn from this fight....plenty of lessons on LOGISTICS but not tactics.