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🇺🇦 Putin’s Disastrous Miscalculation

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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The Psychology of Combat and Soldiering in Ukraine

Hundreds of thousands of ukranians now have combat experience from the war that's raged since 20 14 in the east of the country. A lot of this also had to do with the particular western but also, from what i've seen from russian annals, anelysis. There was a real misunderstanding of the psychology of combat and soldiering. What matters is if everything goes to hell around you, can you stay calm, execute a plan and follow orders and respond to the situation as it unfolds around you? When people develop that basic psychological skill, then they're able to operate in these insane environments.

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