Eight months into Ukraine’s war with Russia, its emerging strategy is combining classic military operations with opportunism on the battlefield to exploit the incompetence of Russian forces—and is changing the course of the battle.
Ukraine’s command structure encourages junior officers to make in-the-moment battlefield decisions, an authority that they have used to seize opportunities and quickly take advantage of enemy weaknesses.
Russians, by contrast, have been slowed by a Soviet-era decision-making structure, in which orders trickle down the chain of command from Moscow, and troops at the front lines take little initiative.
#Ukraine: A Russian MT-LB driver, apparently with very limited vision, drove into a row of TM-62 anti-tank mines. The result is as expected. pic.twitter.com/Efp9ML2txu
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) October 12, 2022
