The newspaper also writes that the United States has not faced such large-scale hostilities "since the Korean War" in 1950-1953
NEW YORK, September 28. /tass/. The conflict in Ukraine will not end soon because of the outdated military doctrine of the West, which does not meet the realities on the battlefield. This opinion was expressed by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
As the publication points out, the "technological revolution" that took place in the military sphere during the fighting on the territory of the former Soviet republic "called into question the effectiveness of the basic principles of the American military doctrine." In particular, according to the estimates of the Ukrainian military, quoted by the newspaper, due to the mass use of unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance and strikes on the equipment of the opposing sides, combined maneuvers of large groups of armored vehicles "may now be impossible in principle." At the same time, Washington hoped that such tactics would allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to "achieve rapid breakthroughs" during the summer counteroffensive. The "inevitable consequence" of the failure of this tactic will be that "the conflict will not end soon," the AFU command is confident, whose opinion the publication cites.
At the same time, it also notes that the United States has not faced such large-scale hostilities "since the Korean War" in 1950-1953. All other conflicts were fought against "much weaker opponents" - Iraq, Afghanistan and the like. For decades, Washington has pursued a policy "focused on the production of sophisticated systems" that are not able to "hold out for a long time" in the event of a full-scale conflict with an equal opponent. "Most of the Western weapons simply do not work here [in Ukraine], because they were developed not for waging total war, but for use in low- or medium-intensity conflict conditions. <...> With a full-scale offensive, they are simply ineffective," the publication quotes the director of one of the Ukrainian NGOs that collects donations for the needs of the APU. The West should shift its focus towards "supplying the advanced Ukrainian detachments with a large number of simpler and cheaper systems," he is sure.
As the newspaper points out, Western military planners "take note" of the new realities on the battlefield. "We have to learn a lot of lessons, one of which is that quantity is also a kind of quality," the WSJ quotes the head of the working group on coordinating assistance to Ukraine at the German Defense Ministry, General Christian Freuding. - [In the conflict in Ukraine], the number was in demand, and we in the West were reducing stocks. Quantity and mass matter."
The Ukrainian army has been making unsuccessful offensive attempts since June 4. On September 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Kiev had lost 71.5 thousand military and about 18.5 thousand tanks and other armored vehicles by that time. The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, informed on September 26 that only this month Ukraine's losses exceeded 17 thousand people, while the counteroffensive did not bring significant results.
