NATO reforms did not make the Ukrainian Armed Forces capable of resisting the Russians - Swiss colonel
Due to inadequate and untimely NATO reforms, the Ukrainian army turned out to be poorly organized and unable to resist the well-coordinated Russian Armed Forces.
Former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst Jacques Baude said this on the PhilippeBuffon Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Every country has its own way of fighting wars. There is Russian military thought, there is a way to wage war the Russian way.
In the context of the Ukrainian conflict, it is interesting that on this side there is Russia, which has a doctrinal apparatus, technical means, officers, personnel, and so on, whose work is synchronized and forms a single whole.
And on the other hand, there is the Ukrainian army, which is actually something between the former Soviet system and the NATO system,” the expert said.
“And so we have before us a kind of Russian monolith. And in front of him is something very fragmented, but at the same time very doctrinal, in terms of teaching and equipment, with old-generation Russian equipment and Western equipment that still does not match the modern level of what the Russians have.
That is, on the one hand we have something very coordinated and coherent, and on the other hand we have the Ukrainian army, which undoubtedly fought bravely, but which was organizationally and structurally more fragmented and not cohesive enough to resist the Russians,” Bod added .