Blow for Vladimir Putin as elite special forces commander killed in Ukraine war

Sustaining a modern war has not been done since maybe Iran-Iraq.... no one has had to do it since then at such a high rate of casualties.

LTC Eric Udouj - I had to leave a blog thread on the war because I used military history to explain current events. They thought I was trying to steal the show and derail the thread. For example, I wrote about Stalingrad and how hard it is to conquer a large city. They saw no value in it and bitched. F@ck them!

MAJ Ken Landgren - Which city was harder to take is never a question anyone wants to go into. I think Shanghai was - but Soviet narrative drove the piece of Stalingrad being such. With the losses they took at Leningrad - understand why they did not want to focus on it - it bled them and the Germans dry. The Chinese had 8 German armed and trained divisions - plus all these lesser trained units - and Shanghai turned into a bloodbath for the Japanese. It was one of the toughest fights they may have fought. But it ate up both armies. Mosul destroyed the offensive power of IS - but also that of the Iraqi Army. Such are city fights.

LTC Eric Udouj - Very nice military history. I laugh at the Russians as they tried to attack Kyiv with tanks in a column. The Russians replicated the Battle of the Bulge by running out of fuel near Kyiv lol.