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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJOhn Spencer, urban war studies specialist, on how to defend your city from invasion.
This twitter thread is unrolled here, for ease of reading.
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It begins like this:
So I've been asked what my advice would be to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv. Someone with no military training but wanting to resist. Here are a few things #Kyiv #UkraineUnderAttack :
You have the power but you have to fight smart. The urban defense is hell for any soldier. It usually take 5 attackers to 1 defender. Russians do not have the numbers. Turn Kyiv and any urban area leading to Kyiv into a porcupine.
Go out and build obstacles in the streets! Start with any bridge you can find (they should have been destroyed). Block them with cars, trucks, concrete, wood, trash, anything! Then block any spot in the city where there are tall buildings on each side. Already tight areas.
DETAILED WITH PICTURES AND DIAGRAMS
Once you have obstacles (never stop building). I really mean thousands of barriers/obstacles. You can decided places to fight. Places to shoot from or ambush any soldier or vehicle that stops or slows down at your obstacles.
Do NOT stand in the open and shoot or throw anything (to include molotov cocktail) at a Russian soldier or vehicles. Shoot from windows, behind cars, around alleyway corners. Build positions (concrete best) to fire from.
You must prepare for the Russians to start using artillery to help their troops. Make sure the places you choose to shoot from are strong. If in a building, make holes in the walls so you can shoot from and bigger ones to move to other rooms or buildings. You must survive.
Yes, use your molotov cocktails. Think about where you will stand to throw (then run). Dropping from windows above vehicles most ideal. Vehicles without weapons on top the most vulnerable, but if it is armor, choose where to hit.
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dchill
(38,502 posts)WarGamer
(12,445 posts)The Russians at Stalingrad used explosives to blast holes in walls so they could traverse blocks at a time without going into the streets.
The irony of Kiev playing out like Stalingrad is powerful.
mitch96
(13,911 posts)And god forbid if the Ukrainians use suicide vests... It will be shades of Afghanistan all over again.. We know how that turned out..
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