Chuck Pfarrer, a former squadron leader of SEAL Team 6, explains why Russia, despite having substantially more troops than Ukraine, is failing to make significant territorial gains. Pfarrer points out the multitude of striking indications that Russia has neither the strategic nor tactical ability to execute complex missions. The failure of Moscow to pull-off battlefield victories will only worsen when Russia sends newly drafted "people," who could not be considered "soldiers," says Pfarrer, as they so desperately lack sufficient training, to the front.
Pfarrer, a special correspondent for the Kyiv Post, who has advised the "full alphabet soup" of US national security agencies and is a leading figure in the analysis of the war in Ukraine, lays out the case as to why Russia's losses so far have been disastrous and explains the many signs pointing towards an abysmal summer ahead for Russia. Russians soon to be mobilized should not delude themselves with fantasies of victory: Like nearly all of the Russian soldiers who participated in the initial full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the newbie Russian troops will be headed straight to the meat-grinder.
Chuck Pfarrer is a former squadron leader of the US Navy SEAL Team Six. He has served public and private sector clients as a military and counter-terrorism contractor and non-proliferation expert. Pfarrer has written extensively on counter WMD proliferation and gray zone operations. He has written an op-ed for the New York Times and the Knight-Ridder Syndicate and has appeared as a writer and counterterrorism expert on CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Fox, CSPAN, NPR, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, Al Hurra, IPR, and America tonight.
Comments (5)
Make Chasiv Yar the rock that breaks the Russian Army.
The more the brave and valiant Ukrainians and their other national freedom loving volunteers whack the worthless russeest orcs, the better. Pile their rotting corpses in garbage trucks and use them for landfill at the dump
Why are you coaching the Russians? Let them analyze their own problems.
Hopefully Putin dies of a heart attack soon. Russia needs better leadership and needs to seek to rejoin the world of rational countries.
@ATK, Unfortunately Putin is not an aberration, he is symptomatic of the rotten leadership Russia has had for centuries of robber-barons for whom death or assassination are the only retirement plan
@ATK, Russia needs another population than the current zombie
This war is far from over and the Ukrainians are smarter.
@Imokru2, En veel inventiever. Slava Ukraini