US defense secretary Lloyd Austin tells CNN Russia made 'missteps' in Ukraine invasion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday said that the US has "seen a number of missteps" by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

In offering an assessment of Russia's troops, Austin told CNN's Don Lemon in an exclusive interview, conducted in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, that the Russians "have not progressed as far as quickly as they would have liked."

Austin told CNN that the Russians have "struggled with logistics" and that he has not seen evidence of "good employment of tactical intelligence," nor "integration of air capability with a ground maneuver."

"There are a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we just haven't seen. And the Russians really have had some -- has presented us some problems. So, many of their assumptions have not proven to be true as they entered this fight," he said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-tells-cnn-russia-made-missteps-in-ukraine-invasion/ar-AAVfoMB

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Ya think?

[Zorro]

1. You can bet the US military is taking lots of notes

[paleotn]

2. If you can't do complex, multi service operations, don't act like you can....

It only ends in embarrassment. We work very hard and spend billions to be able to do just that. And, we've actually done it, live, under fire, on a number of occasions. Russia....not so much.

[JohnSJ]

3. The missteps they made was invading Ukraine in the first place

[Gore1FL]

4. I guess we are just used to the playbook employed by the U.S.

Spend the time necessary to achieve air supremacy.
Knock out defensive ground forces from the air.
Send in the ground forces.
Holding it once it is taken, has been proven to be difficult.

The didn't take the first two steps, and much of the third step is stuck in the mud, burning, captured, or abandoned.

In the unlikely event that the Russians managed to unstick themselves and actually pull off a military victory, they'll never be able to subdue Ukraine.

Putin's days are numbered.

[C_U_L8R]

5. And building a global coalition.

Russian has no support.

[L. Coyote]

6. LOL. "How many Generals do they have?!"

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