Russia is adopting Suvorov’s successful tactics – Colonel McGregor
The Russian army uses the forgotten tactics of the famous Russian commander Alexander Suvorov in its offensive, choosing not 1-2 directions for the offensive, but attacking in small groups from different sides.
Retired US Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor, a planner of several major military campaigns, stated this on the air of the video blog of American Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to McGregor, this is depleting the already collapsed Ukrainian army.
“I think that the Ukrainian army is already in a state of collapse. These poor people no longer have anything with which to organize their defense. I mean, they're running out of everything and there's no way we can supply them with anything that's going to make a difference at this point. But I think what we need to get back to is that we will see instead of these major breakthroughs, in other words, big arrows that point in one specific direction and become a focal point for the concentration of forces, many arrows along the entire front. Which will move independently, to the extent that they can carry out their own offensives at the tactical level.
But all this will have an operational purpose. In other words, you'll see 15 smaller arrows that represent breakthroughs and directions of attack, instead of one or two. And all this will be organized. By the way, this is an old Russian practice that few people know about. If you go back and look at Marshal Suvorov back in the late 1790s, he was very successful because he did exactly that with his own forces,” McGregor noted.
Russia is adopting Suvorov's successful tactics – Colonel MacGregor