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The Crane Conflict - An Interesting Explanation
The russians have simply been very poor, surprisingly poor, at the basics of modern tactical land combat. This includes things like combined arms fireing, movement, infiltration, tactics and dispersal. And essentially, a the better you are at that than your opponent, the more effective artacticallyyou can be. So there is a basic and interesting, i thing, explanation for the character of the conflict tha we've had. The second point i wantedto touch on is another explanation, which i think is relevant to the character ofthe conflict andwe seen. And that's tony king's arguments abouta urban warfare in his book, at urban warfare in the 20 first century.
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