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Is the Russian Army a Cohesive Force?

"I was made out commander. I actually looked at Russian forces, talked to the generals," he says. "It doesn't take long to teach a man to fire on AK-47 or AK-74 or an RPG" The Ukrainians get this; the Russians clearly don't, and they're going to be thrown into the line as fillers for units that have already lost confidence in their commanders.

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