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Subject: Mobilization of Ukraine
Mikko    3/5/2014 6:24:38 AM
Howdy. A blast-from-the-past situation happening in Ukraine. We have Russian professional military engaged to a local stand-off currently against Ukrainian regulars in Crimea. The setup from the perspective of regular forces is clear. Russian mobility and preparedness against the motivation boost to defend one's own sovereignty. But what happens when the Ukrainian reserves come to play? The population base allows for a large reservist army but what does it take to make those reserves into anything else than poorly coordinated cannon fodder? I suppose a lot depends on the quality and quantity of the officer corps: If they are trained to handle a fast reservist army build-up then they probably have a template in place. They need to organize the reserves into military formations, equip them, bring them to operational capability through planning, training and tasking. There are probably enough assault rifles, light anti-tank weapons, mortars and mines for everyone stacked up someplace. But what do you think; can the reserves be pressed to play a role in any meaningful time frame? M
 
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Mikko    sorry   3/5/2014 6:28:26 AM
Sorry for no spacing between chapters, don't know what happened to it.
 
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ker       3/5/2014 10:55:26 AM
I am suspect of my own information. This seams like an odd form of almost combat. Talk of warning shots and no footage of wounded makes it seam like intimidation parading rather than combat. Information warfare is primairy. The need to organize populace is less about fire superiority earned with more triger pullers and more image superiority earned by staging media acts. In the end you only run this town because people think you run this town. I have never imagined such well behaved cossacks.
 
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Mikko       3/6/2014 3:03:12 AM
Indeed, Crimea now has set the world record for the most disciplined and best equipped irregulars to date.
 
I don't think Crimea as such is going to explode; it's what happens in the other parts of the country that matters. The barracks in which the poor buggers are locked into don't seem like fortresses to me, so getting rid of them would be harmful for both sides.
 
 
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