@@yurinator4411 Yes, why wouldn't it be? Russian, and similar Eastern European languages that use Cyrillic, can be notoriously difficult to translate into English and many other Western European languages for not only all the typical nuances of translating one language to another but also the fact that they both use a whole separate alphabet and simply have a very different culture and mindset, which in turn affects their language and all those other little nuances. If you've ever learned a foreign language, it's not easy even when you share an alphabet and a general sense of the world and cultural values. It only gets harder the more 'foreign' the culture and language is. So, yes, it is an admirable accomplishment, especially when so many others make massive mistakes in translating Russian to English even in more formal writings. The fact this one was full of metaphors, idiomatic phrases, and colloquial language in general makes it all the more impressive how relatively close it was to being accurate and understandable. Of course, from what I understand, Bernard didn't translate this himself, but the fact he went through the steps to make sure it was reasonably accurate and got some help from someone who does speak Russian is good practice on his part and very dutiful to the source material being studied. Oh, or is this another "Russia bad, therefore anything to do with Russia bad too." post?
15:26 Russian guide: "With a dull shovel, just like with dull people, you don't get much work done." MHV: "As you can see, the guide also addresses the Austrian bureaucracy - although in a far more positive light than I would." That was brilliant. Savage, and brilliant.
I'm very amused by the sarcastic comments about Russian officers in the Russian report. It reminds me of Soviet jokes about the nomenklatura, but rather more out in the open.
They hope that shaming them in the report will bring about some change.That's why there are also some references to people from history to inspire 'courage'. In my opinion any real guide/report should not contain such out of place additions, but russians are from other reality.
I just guess the soldiers in all countries, atleast you can see the same on German Army memepages, Austrian, American and so on, that soldiers allways make jokes about officers and vice versa
@@kamsko5957 That's because you are less capable of analysing such documents than the average high schooler. Ie ask yourself the Nature, Purpose, Origin and Content of the document is and countless reasons for why and how they have done it this way and why that may be optimal are obvious
"Everytime you stop, drill yourself into the fatherland".This was a very basic lession I learned in the Finnish army. Always dig yourself a foxhole when stop moving in exercises, keep distance, always observe
We got trained in the Finnish army to not to use cell phones for communication in exercises. Just because they might not work in a real hot international shooting competition and they can be located pretty easy and quick.
@Swarmpope it's the opposite or at least equal on the other end. Russians were able to accurately hit Ukrainian bases due to concentration of Ukrainian cell phone sims.
@@spechund7109 Russians also hit Russian bases due to the number of stolen and looted Ukrainian phones present, mistaking them for dense civilian formations in unprotected areas and thus solid artillery targets. This is is not helped by the Russians not having good army wide position mapping, and general refusal to share specific details between units unless necessary.
Most people interested in war related topics focus on flashy things like tanks, planes, missiles, etc. Logistics and basic tactics for survival learned the hard way are rarely focused on and probably far more important most things that get most of the attention. This is for me what makes your channel fairly unique because it looks at things such as this much more than other channels that just “stick to tanks” so to speak. Very informative video. Love your work!
Probably has to do with Rommel's performance in WW2. Tanks and Tactics were his speciality and it worked wonders Montgomery BARELY stopped Rommel in Egypt DESPITE having a Defensive AND Numerical advantage! (Montgomery's men suffered more deaths than Rommels) Great Logistics can't reverse the bad effects of Terrible Tactics or Strategies Better to have a Balance than be Specialized in MOST circumstances If Montgomery had less men he would have lost to Rommel even though he is a better strategist than the Tactician Rommel Patton's offensive drives were taxing on logistics during WW2
@@christiandauz3742 Not sure why Patton is up there despite being a contender for "Most incompetent general of WW2" that easily defeats Clark and aproaches Stilwell.....
I have to say, this was written with a lot more "fun", then I would have expected. All of the insults, the metaphors, I would not have expected from such a manual
@@F3nomz personally, i just think it shows the deterioration of the quality of the russian army. They used to have good and propper survival guides. Recommended by their peers (other armies). Now its; - dont litter - dont loot - be selr suficient - dont forget god is with us Writtrn in a snarky language, trying yo shift the blame to individual bad appels. Its less of a guide and more of a russian officer wish list; 'I wish my soldiers would stop litter, loot and tiktok all day"
I was a 19D (armored reconnaissance specialist) and was particularly sensitive to keeping of pressence hidden. Our survival was dependent on not being detected. If we have to use or guns, we screwed up. Our best weapon system is our radios, connected to an artillery unit. An unarmed drone is just as dangerous as an armed drone.
I love the unique Russian sense of humor ever so slightly poking at the establishment! "Dull shovels are like dull people, you don't get much work done "
I find it interesting that half of these lessons were the same lessons stressed in old WW2 era writings such as infantry attacks. Funny how some parts of war never changes. Murphy's Law of Combat: Look unimportant, the enemy may be low on ammo. Also: A gallon of sweat saves a gallon of blood. Dig your trenches deep.
Dig your trenches deep, you'll make the rockets weep, and when they take to sweep, there'll be no one that they meet, until they pass your keep, then they're yours to reap.
As an ex Infantryman, this is all literally week 1 shit. It's pretty shocking that they're having to reinforce this absolute basic stuff to troops in war.
@@WozWozEre A large portion of said troops are mobilized conscripts, not professional troops; some have barely touched a weapon before, much less been in a gunfight or a war.
@@SlackJaw00 And if the Ukrainians are to be believed, most of those fast tracked conscripts lack basic gear such as shovels to dig a trench if they wanted to. or the few that are issued shovels quickly drop them to carry ammo or stolen food.
This truly is the aspect of war, My father talked to me about it when he said looters are bad and will likely be the first killed and also he told me the importance of camouflage and having to move or get in a trench, So even after 40 years the basic things are the same.
It is ironic because apparently looting was highly encouraged by officers, some of whom punished soldiers who failed to procure enough loot for their officers (and officers throwing out munitions and radios to haul stolen goods, like the colonel shot down with 4 washing machines strapped to his chopper).
@@littlekong7685 I'm sorry am i missing something here? My father never said the army officers encouraged looting and if you are talking about the Russians then that means those few officers should have never got a single strap of rank in the army in the first place.
@@KingdomRepublic Modern Russian army has a lot of issues. Many career officers are underpaid, even higher ranked ones. And abuses of and stealing from conscripts has been an ongoing issue for decades. In this war, many conscripts fled to surrender to Ukrainians because their own officers warned if they didn't return from patrols with enough loot (Phones, jewellery, money, booze, clothes, appliances, etc) they would be punished, or even shot.
@@littlekong7685 i suppose that was an Issue in the Iraqi army after 1991 when the embargo hit them and when America faced them in 2003 they couldn't hold for much. It seems every army who had the Soviet Doctrine and Soviet Weapons performed very poorly, countries like Poland, Russia and Iraq and so on will perform Generally a lot worse against countries like Germany, France and Britain. When the Russians attacked i thought they will win in 8 or 9 weeks now it's been almost a year and Ukraine is no where near defeated. Why the Russians didn't learn anything in the past 32 years since the USSR collapsed is a mystery to me.
I am reminded that during the Pacific War, US military intelligence was able to estimate the numbers of Japanese soldiers stationed on a base or island with great accuracy (more or less) simply by counting the number of privies that were observed by aerial reconnaissance, and the Japanese military never caught on.
Excellent video. Love how you go straight to primary sources and do the comparison and find common points between the two documents from opposite sides of this war.
Wow! That was an incredible video. It really cleared the fog on a lot of what is going on over there and how each side views the war. I liked the russian perspective and it seems a lot more personal. You cant fight in the war if you are dead.
The russians are doing every but what they say... " I live - I fight _ I win! It appears the Ukrainians are the only ones with the intelligence to follow even russian indoctrination! eh?! Slava Ukraini!
@@sqnhunter I have heard that the Ukrainian KIA are over 100,000 as reported by the appointed EU leader (I dont know her name or title) and Russian KIA are estimated around 15,000-20,000. Obviously you cant trust the ukrainian government or russian to give accurate numbers but it sounds like the russians are doing a lot better at not dying. Actually the best way to stop the killing would be a peace deal. Let the territories that want to be part of russia join the federation and those that want to stay ukrainian stay with ukraine.
@@ew3612 No person has reported any figures for Ukrainian KIA or wounded. Its kept a state secret for a reason....not like stupid Russian reporters blurting theirs out. Russian KIA is 96k+ you can go on whatever figures you like ..but Ukrainian small precision strikes decimate Russian troops and equipment while Russia still decimates civilians. You cant kill troops while you are firing in another direction at civilians...fuktard! Russia wont let small areas break away from it...why should Ukraine let break away areas influenced by russian activists break away??????? no double standard...no peace deal...obliteration to every Russian soul on Ukrainian soil...and its going that way right now.
Detecting a cell phone down to 3 Meters? Yes, plausible, playing with CB radio, RF loops (wire coat hangers in place of a base loaded antennas 'whip') and RF Strength meters we could ID which tower block a person was broadcasting from... we were kids with crude analogue kit, with more modern digital systems with computer support, you could do that as long as you have at least 2 receiving towers, 3 or more points of reception, 3 meters could be very possible.
@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized congratulation for this good work. Vielleicht sollten Sie etwas an ihrer Aussprache üben. An einigen Stellen musste ich stoppen um den Text zu lesen. Ist aber jammern auf hohem Niveau von mir:)
The Germans in WW2 had a saying, "sweat saves blood", reminding their troops that they must put in the effort or pay the blood price for their laxity. That theme seems to run throughout this video.. A solider on the front needs to be constantly on top of is admin, keeping himself and his position in good order, or he will rapidly become a casualty. Given how mentally and physically tiring this constant effort is, i can only imagine it really increases the importance of regular unit rotations to get troops back to a comparatively safer location and let them "switch off" for a little bit. also, i disagree with your statement at 16:50 that "discipline is not that important to well motivated troops". Discipline is VITAL, but well motivated troops are able to apply Self-discipline, to do that hard work without the NCOs constantly chasing them to do it properly, which in turn frees those NCOs to concentrate on other tasks.
I think that saying originally comes from the Greeks (Sparta maybe?). But the Germans were smart to live by it. I totally agreed about what you wrote on discipline
Regarding the accuracy of locating active cell phones via standart telco gear (specialized HW can obviously do better) I have experience of operating such system some time ago - the resulting accuracy was between 20 and 200 meters (around 500 meters in areas with very poor coverage) depending on how many cells were able to detect that phone and obstructions (terrain, buildings, etc.)
You are not considering the US military satellite based real time surveillance system it is the best in the world and Ukraine has access to it . Calls are pinpointed to the exact location
Thank you very much. I will be definitely download Russian one, seems to be a very useful thing in general. I got partisan manual from 1942 which is a very practical guide how to survive, live off the land and be combat effective in a para military context. This pocket book with illustrations was printed by Soviet Union and distributed behind enemy lines.
Yes, but now Ukraine is urban territory. Cities not engaged in guerilla. Because to feed yourself in the city you need job, monetary system, grocery stores, logistics egc. Country life still possible, but not for many, because to "live off the land" you need a lot of land. Without working city centers - Ukraine can feed about 10 millions people at most..Rest will leave - and already leave - no matter where, Russia or EU.
_Slackness_ and _reserves_ are not synonyms. I've not read the report, but assuming the authors chose their words deliberately, the difference is important. _Slackness_ implies excess working capacity while _reserves_ imply a resource set aside that cannot be called upon at a moment's notice. If, say, your communications staff only work half time, you can quadruple your man-hours in a moment's notice; however, if half your communications staff are reservists, you're behind the 8-ball if a crisis develops suddenly. _Slackness_ is more expensive to maintain, but is immediately responsive; _reserves_ are much less costly to maintain, but slower to bring to bear.
17:18 amazingly the British Army also uses the word 'Buckshee' which in military terms means extra or spare. But I beleive came from the Hindi word 'baksheesh' which I think means gift. Probably a word picked up by soldiers serving in India during the colonial times and passed down to the current generation of soldiers.
You’re probably right about where the British picked it up, but the word is even older- originally Persian, it has been integrated into languages across the Middle East and South Asia to mean a small gift, sometimes implying a bribe or backhander.
@@DarkSlug Pretty much this. Bakshish also became the general word for "pay", "tip" or 'bounty" in 19th century archaeological digs in the North Africa and the Levant, when basically everyone made locals do the hard manual labour and a little bonus was paid out when someone found something significant.
Pretty much everyone from the British Grenadiers, to Swedish Carolingeans, to Crusaders, to Spanish Tercios, to Prussian Jaegers used that phrase. Not sure what you are trying to imply.
@@dimakapeev3156 Gott mit uns was also not coined by the mustache man, but I apologize, I forgot that Germany has no history prior to 1933, if you stratch it maybe 1914!
Sweden eliminated Norway in training 5 times in a row and got accused of cheating. Then they told how they won. Some women soldiers in the Norwegian group was using tinder on their cellphones and constantly gave away their position to the Swedes that where triangulating their signals and bombing them on exact position.
"constantly gave away their position to the Swedes .." they swiped right on. "I would like to meet you, baby. Where's your foxhole?" Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.
RUSI is pretty good at analysis & Jack Watling often pops up on the radio(BBC) to give his thought about military matters. Thanks for the video, very interesting. No getting away from the eye in the sky.
It’s the fascinating thing about Russian military theorists, is that they often have brilliant insights that are aggressively ignored and suppressed by the chain of command & government. See also: Tukhachevsky.
Lots of information of this type has been posted to various sites since the beginning. The Russians do not seem to have placed high enough priority on keeping containment, especially at lower levels.
@@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x The Russian government has not hid its absolute disdain for the lower troops, pretty much anything outside Wagner group or below General is essentially a tool to be used, abused, and discarded until parade day. They keep denying death payments "because we can", or reducing them "because we can", when your own government calls you a hero for invading, a martyr for dying, promises your family wealth, then takes half for itself, changes its mind, calls you a coward and keeps the other half, its a sign of systemic disdain.
Interesting lessons to be learned, I'm sure that these studies will be passed around many militaries. Nice bit of "trivia" about Nicolas Moran being a "light bird" colonel, thanks for that.!
6:10 - My old Galaxy S3 could use cell towers as a substitute for GPS (it did have GPS. This is a backup) and gave my position to well within 6m, in 2012.
I vaguely remember reading that the Nazi Wehrmacht in Stalingrad complained that the Russians were using "Gangster Tacticts" against them. it's amusing how often you can find historical parallels.
God that was super interesting. Stuff like this is just so cool to learn about like being a soldier and what not. Keep up the great work! Btw I love the German accent, im also German
Thank you Bernhard. The Russian comment on rubbish reminds me of recent comments by Lars of the Survival Russia channel. He shows examples in his videos of the rubbish left in remote areas and on parts of the family property that are adjacent to public roads. He advises that Russians are particularly bad in this respect. It appears to be a general societal problem that has transferred to the Russian army.
As a German tank commander I learned all of this back in the 90s, nothing of that is new. (Cept that there were no drones back then, people didnt have cell phones, there were no networked vehicles and GPS was brand new... the details evolved, but the principles remain the same.) Also, I am amazed that the Orkz dont do any of that, at least as far as one can tell from the social media footage. Even more amazing, that all of that is found in their field manuals.
Something I’ve realized from this war as one of the largest takeaways for everyone who isn’t america, and even america, is that the often decried ‘muh military industrial complex!’ Which everyone complains owns the world, somehow, is actually proven to be too small, most European militaries have less than a week’s worth of ammunition to fight with, and the Americans don’t have the ammo supplies to indirectly support for long duration while having stocks left for themselves, and not just artillery ammo, but the consumption rate of cruise missiles is astounding
@@stoyantodorov2133 tell that to the defense secretary, they’re trying to increase artillery production from 14 to 36 thousand rounds, it’ll take a few years before it happens
@@looinrims who cares about arty shells. The US need bombs and rockets for the airforce which is doing most of the work. Ground forces just clean the rest... Move up, encounter resistance, call airforce or precision arty fire support, then move forward again
I note with interest that one of the authors of the RUSI report is Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi. I would pay close attention to anything this man has to say on military matters, particularly those involving conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine. He commanded the 95th Airmoble Brigade in the Great Raid of 2014 during the War in Donbas - one of the longest armoured raids behind enemy lines in military history! This is an event that has largely been ignored by military historians out side of Ukraine, and particularly on RUclips. Perhaps it is time to look at it again.
No, "Omen" is the most accurate translation. "Примета. Мусор на позиции - к обстрелу" is not a simple "note", it's an ominous warning, that was deliberatly worded this way.
@@XumukRC You may be correct, never seen this word used in an official document. Just sound too much like "superstition" in this translation. It still works either way.
@@StubbornBishopWell I'm sure to know, becasue I'm Russian :) And you right, this structure "sign - к outcome" is used in common supersitious expressions, maybe whole document done in less oficial tone to be easier to memorise.
5:42 I suspect traditional geolocation techniques aren't mentioned because they aren't real time. It can take a fairly long time to geolocate a photo based on landmarks because you have to comb through a ton of data, so even if people have been fairly quick to geolocate things in this war it's still usually on the scale of hours, not minutes. Therefore it's not really a threat to the individual soldier and isn't included in this guide. Also that section was warning them to watch out for civilian intelligence so obviously the same advice applies to geolocation via landmarks and geotagging. The immediate threats to a soldier's survival are things that can result in an immediate fire mission on their location, geolocation is not one of those things, it's a somewhat higher level threat to a position as a whole and not an individual soldier.
In all seriousness, how many Russian Mobiks will read this manual, and if they read it, how many will internalize it? It sounds like a great tip source for Russian professional soldiers, but a lot of those guys are already pushing up the sunflowers on the Ukrainian steppe. But also, as much as this is good common sense, I would guess that most/much of it is already known by most competent warfighters - so the fact that it's necessary seems to be an implicit indictment (yet another one) of the state of the Russian military pre-Ukraine.
@@yieldtothenight thats right... stoopid orcs should better use genius ukrainian human wave tactics. Just running straight into the meatgrinder at Bakhmut... or else you will be executed by your own.
Disperse, dig deep, or move fast I think is the most important thing in modern warfare. The ability to destroy has long since exceeded armor. Even US super carriers, the largest and most powerful warships to ever exist, are only survivable due to their sheer speed.
They're only survivable because the US has not engaged anything like a near-peer power in naval combat since 1943 or 1944. Aircraft carriers are great for power projection against inferior powers, but if it comes to a shooting war with someone who can shoot back, the carriers stay in port or get sunk.
@@don_5283 France is building a new aircraft carrier, China is building new generation of carriers with emals catapults. Brittain just finished theirs. USA is going to make mini carriers for drones as well.
@@Tonius126 And every single one of those is incredibly vulnerable to anti-ship missiles and submarines and even potentially cheapie loitering drones. The economics of that exchange are exceedingly unbalanced. Again, carriers are great for power projection and flexibility of action against someone who can't shoot back, but against someone who can shoot back, they're a millstone.
@@don_5283 Not really. They're still the longest-range strike asset at sea and can't be matched in that regard, and they also still are core to the sensory data of the fleet via AWACS. Being able to deal with air threats before such are in range to launch missiles at the fleet is also invaluable. They fill a role that cannot be filled with any other naval asset. Supercarriers may find themselves on the way out following any future role, but navies will retain the need to have an AWACS, naval strike, and air superiority platform. With drones taking up less space than manned aircraft, it is quite likely we will see a reduction of size to that of current Amphibious Assault platforms, and a reduction of tonnage of cost as a result, but air power at sea remains, until proven otherwise, the greatest threat to other navies. Long-ranged land based missiles, for all the threat they do carry, require targeting information to hit anything. (e.g. you can't hit what you can't see) Which means navy assets on site, aircraft, or satellites. The strongest counter to the former 2 are aircraft, and thus carriers, as distance is the most important factor in minimizing the threat they carry. The third can be shot down by anti-satellite missiles, which all AEGIS equipped vessels are already or soon will be carrying. Against a peer enemy, some carrier groups might be lost in the opening of the war, but with any lasting conflict? The carrier becomes, again, a core part to the survival and success of any navy.
@@SCComega It's lovely to want all the things a carrier battle group provides, but until you demonstrate how it can survive against a dedicated opponent with a capable submarine force and the ability to contest airspace to even a limited degree, it's folly to just expect everything will be fine.
Every time we dug a trench in training someone would start complaining about why we don't do something relevant to modern warfare. I wish I could make all of them watch this
This is a bit off topic but I was wondering why NO ONE seems to be considering another option when it comes to whether or not to send main battle tanks to Ukraine. Feel free to pass this on to Mr. Moran or anyone else you think would like to expand on my idea. With the numbers they have in storage, Why doesn't the United States send hundreds of the M60-A3 tanks. I would think they could be reconditioned and sent in the kind of numbers to significantly impact the conflict. Any thoughts?
I am sure that if spade is used for cooking, then it immediately becomes useless as armour plate and even not great for digging. I do appreciate that in a pinch it could be used to cook, but it basically destroys it right away. If it get's hot enough to cook food - say 200C, then it would get annealed in the process.
@@Finarvas Open fire ranges 200C-320C - High Carbon Steel annealing temperature is 260C+. What I am saying - using it as pan will anneal it, maybe not after single use, but definitely if that is done repeatedly. As I said - as last resort and once... probably OK, but it is not mean to be a cooking pan.
@@lp9280 Hmm. I have to mildly disagree. US soldiers in WW2 routinely used their helmets to cook in because they were pot shaped. The US military did a study and found that even after repeated heating over a fire, the steel helmets could still protect against shrapnel. I do not think the Russian report was suggesting that the spades could protect against bullets/rifles, but likely against shrapnel from an aritllery shell, say if they soldier was alying down and using it to cover their back/chest, even after repeated heating? I'd say they could still be effective, because we have examaples of soldiers in other wars using literal helmets as cooking implements and those helmets still being able to deflect at least moderate shrapnel.
@@carlpolen7437 mildly... :D Do you understand what annealing is? I am not saying your spade becomes a cheese after cooking eggs once... And to be honest you making valid point - even without being heated it won't stop bullets anyway... that said if it could not stop bullet, it could not stop shrapnel from artillery for sure. For example standard nato 5.56 bullet weights ~6g, generally pistol bullets are lighter, other rifle bullets are heavier, but in general we are talking under 10g. The biggest conventional bullet one would use on the battlefield like .50 bmg is like 25g. The artillery shrapnel could easily be 0.5-1kg and it travels at very least 2 times the speed of sound. Maybe not as fast as 5.56, but considering how heavy is shrapnel the end result is way worse... Long story short - what you means is "falling debris", not shell shrapnel... shell shrapnel punctures tanks if they hit in the right angle! And yes you right - ruzzia report did not suggest it was armoured plate, however there is possibility of bullet ricocheting from the spade or maybe spade stopping bullet which ricocheted from the ground or wall... this is where harness of the spade becomes important, because the harder is the metal, the wider is the range of angles it could cause the ricochet. Back into reality... I don't think spade is usable much as protection except of falling debris and some extremely lucky angles... my concern would that that using it as a pan would make the metal softer as result making it duller and losing the edge quicker, to the point where it loses it's effectiveness as a spade. I am just pointing out that heat over say bonfire is easily hot enough to anneal the metal. Other point - yes cooking soup in the helmet is legitimate. Because soup being mostly water effectively cools the helmet and prevents it from overheating. Simply said soup can't reach much higher them than ~120C and if it is just to boil the water, then even 100C is going to be hard to reach. The metal is good conductor, so difference between inside and outside won't be much... say 140C max on the outside. Assuming helmet is made from good quality metal 140C won't be enough to damage it. So - boiling in the helmet - legit, cooking on the spade - likely to damage it.
RUclips algorithm! I have no kids and I am ready to watch a video on reports of combat and I get 2 unskippable youtube ads, a 20 second one of Barbie and a 20 second one of Dinosaur toys!
Die Sache mit dem Schanzen als Schutz vor Artillerie und der Fliegerabwehr steht auch in alten Ausbildungshilfe der Bundeswehr (Kriegsnah ausbilden). Die hat man dann ... aus bestimmten Gründen ad acta gelegt.
It dosnt complie whit whit "modern" manuver warfare fashion of NATO. Manuver warfare implies that your oponent is at least slow if not underpowered. Concept of military intervention aka regime change and fight against insurgance. Light cavalry charge...
I've read "I live, I fight, I win!" and find this "book" very disturbing. At first, it's definitely written by some boomers mostly with Afgan war experience. It was 40 years ago btw. But what are much more disturbing -- braindead propaganda and things like this: 16. If locals misbehave All protests, sabotage and espionage by the local population on the liberated lands are organized and guided from headquarters of Ukraine's Armed Forces and Security Service. So, in accordance with First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1978 Article 45, protesters may be considered as combatants without distinguishing marks. It allows to detain local residents who obstruct our military personnel in their duties and treat them as POWs. And in case of threat to heath and life of our fighters it grants right to shoot them to kill. Article 46 of the First Additional Protocol to the IV Geneva Convention allows us to consider all locals who take photographs and videos of our positions as potential spies. So, this deprives them even right to be taken as POWs with all of possible consequences to them... But! Shooting unarmed is not our way. There are dozens of ways to "indicate our status quo". For example, protesters and those who films our facilities could be detained as POWs, interrogated, redirected to security agencies. The main thing is to act quickly, decisively and with Russian smekalka.
What a sharp contrast to Soviet Doctrine !!!! Can you do a video on Russian "counter-battery" fire as they seem to be the best in history in that endeavor ..... Great video as usual !!!! 🙂
As a person who speaks Russian the translation of Russian Report was done correctly. Kudos!
It was good, but I chuckled at "omen" (примета)
da komrrad extra plutonium next kgb visit extra vodka too!
Could you provide a link to the document please 🙏
This is a praiseworthy accomplishment?
@@yurinator4411 Yes, why wouldn't it be? Russian, and similar Eastern European languages that use Cyrillic, can be notoriously difficult to translate into English and many other Western European languages for not only all the typical nuances of translating one language to another but also the fact that they both use a whole separate alphabet and simply have a very different culture and mindset, which in turn affects their language and all those other little nuances.
If you've ever learned a foreign language, it's not easy even when you share an alphabet and a general sense of the world and cultural values. It only gets harder the more 'foreign' the culture and language is. So, yes, it is an admirable accomplishment, especially when so many others make massive mistakes in translating Russian to English even in more formal writings. The fact this one was full of metaphors, idiomatic phrases, and colloquial language in general makes it all the more impressive how relatively close it was to being accurate and understandable.
Of course, from what I understand, Bernard didn't translate this himself, but the fact he went through the steps to make sure it was reasonably accurate and got some help from someone who does speak Russian is good practice on his part and very dutiful to the source material being studied.
Oh, or is this another "Russia bad, therefore anything to do with Russia bad too." post?
15:26 Russian guide: "With a dull shovel, just like with dull people, you don't get much work done."
MHV: "As you can see, the guide also addresses the Austrian bureaucracy - although in a far more positive light than I would."
That was brilliant. Savage, and brilliant.
I'm very amused by the sarcastic comments about Russian officers in the Russian report. It reminds me of Soviet jokes about the nomenklatura, but rather more out in the open.
They hope that shaming them in the report will bring about some change.That's why there are also some references to people from history to inspire 'courage'. In my opinion any real guide/report should not contain such out of place additions, but russians are from other reality.
I just guess the soldiers in all countries, atleast you can see the same on German Army memepages, Austrian, American and so on, that soldiers allways make jokes about officers and vice versa
@@kamsko5957 Well it's published by a veteran's association. Enlisted men are the same everywhere.
@@kamsko5957 In my experience it's vodka that inspires courage.
@@kamsko5957 That's because you are less capable of analysing such documents than the average high schooler. Ie ask yourself the Nature, Purpose, Origin and Content of the document is and countless reasons for why and how they have done it this way and why that may be optimal are obvious
"Everytime you stop, drill yourself into the fatherland".This was a very basic lession I learned in the Finnish army. Always dig yourself a foxhole when stop moving in exercises, keep distance, always observe
I can’t even imagine the shitstorm Finnish conscripts would endure if they left a mountain of trash around them.
Ditto British soldiers.
Actually this basic rule comes from the Roman army: whenever you stop for no matter how long - start building a camp.
We got trained in the Finnish army to not to use cell phones for communication in exercises. Just because they might not work in a real hot international shooting competition and they can be located pretty easy and quick.
And remember, the British GCHQ is listening to all of those conversations.
@Swarmpope Yes
"international shooting competition" Love it 🤣
@Swarmpope it's the opposite or at least equal on the other end. Russians were able to accurately hit Ukrainian bases due to concentration of Ukrainian cell phone sims.
@@spechund7109 Russians also hit Russian bases due to the number of stolen and looted Ukrainian phones present, mistaking them for dense civilian formations in unprotected areas and thus solid artillery targets. This is is not helped by the Russians not having good army wide position mapping, and general refusal to share specific details between units unless necessary.
"The main value in war is life."
That's the all-star sentence from the palmphlet I think.
You're job is not to die for your country, but to make some poor Son of a Bitch die for theirs -- Patton
I think it was Patton who said make other fellow die for his country.
You can’t win if you’re dead.
Dying for mother Russia is an honour and a priviligie comrade. It is your duty.
You die for mother Russia, fake nazis, or you die for oil, narcotics or perhaps fake WMDs. Loving it.
Most people interested in war related topics focus on flashy things like tanks, planes, missiles, etc. Logistics and basic tactics for survival learned the hard way are rarely focused on and probably far more important most things that get most of the attention. This is for me what makes your channel fairly unique because it looks at things such as this much more than other channels that just “stick to tanks” so to speak. Very informative video. Love your work!
Probably has to do with Rommel's performance in WW2. Tanks and Tactics were his speciality and it worked wonders
Montgomery BARELY stopped Rommel in Egypt DESPITE having a Defensive AND Numerical advantage! (Montgomery's men suffered more deaths than Rommels)
Great Logistics can't reverse the bad effects of Terrible Tactics or Strategies
Better to have a Balance than be Specialized in MOST circumstances
If Montgomery had less men he would have lost to Rommel even though he is a better strategist than the Tactician Rommel
Patton's offensive drives were taxing on logistics during WW2
@@christiandauz3742 modern war is just drones fighting positions. Heaven help the army
A vet coworker quipped months ago to separate people who say they know to people who do know is to have them show you how a tourniquet works.
@@christiandauz3742
Not sure why Patton is up there despite being a contender for "Most incompetent general of WW2" that easily defeats Clark and aproaches Stilwell.....
@@nvelsen1975
Who was the American Commander at Kessarine Pass where Rommel's Italian troops break the US defenders?
I have to say, this was written with a lot more "fun", then I would have expected. All of the insults, the metaphors, I would not have expected from such a manual
Shows how important these points are for the men if it is written to appeal to them.
This guide is meant for the regular soldier, not for the Officer Academy staff. In order for it to be read, it must be engaging.
@@F3nomz personally, i just think it shows the deterioration of the quality of the russian army.
They used to have good and propper survival guides. Recommended by their peers (other armies).
Now its;
- dont litter
- dont loot
- be selr suficient
- dont forget god is with us
Writtrn in a snarky language, trying yo shift the blame to individual bad appels. Its less of a guide and more of a russian officer wish list;
'I wish my soldiers would stop litter, loot and tiktok all day"
@@F3nomz good point
@@F3nomz good point
I was a 19D (armored reconnaissance specialist) and was particularly sensitive to keeping of pressence hidden. Our survival was dependent on not being detected. If we have to use or guns, we screwed up. Our best weapon system is our radios, connected to an artillery unit.
An unarmed drone is just as dangerous as an armed drone.
Did the Russian rules sound like your units SOP?
Scouts, out
@@Losantiville
I suspect general concepts are the same, but I suspect the training and execution is greatly lacking. LOL
Not to mention cheaper and more expendable!
"How to recognize when your own country is shooting you: they don't conserve ammunition"
I love the unique Russian sense of humor ever so slightly poking at the establishment!
"Dull shovels are like dull people, you don't get much work done "
I find it interesting that half of these lessons were the same lessons stressed in old WW2 era writings such as infantry attacks. Funny how some parts of war never changes.
Murphy's Law of Combat: Look unimportant, the enemy may be low on ammo.
Also: A gallon of sweat saves a gallon of blood. Dig your trenches deep.
Dig your trenches deep, you'll make the rockets weep, and when they take to sweep, there'll be no one that they meet, until they pass your keep, then they're yours to reap.
As an ex Infantryman, this is all literally week 1 shit. It's pretty shocking that they're having to reinforce this absolute basic stuff to troops in war.
@@WozWozEre A large portion of said troops are mobilized conscripts, not professional troops; some have barely touched a weapon before, much less been in a gunfight or a war.
@@SlackJaw00 And if the Ukrainians are to be believed, most of those fast tracked conscripts lack basic gear such as shovels to dig a trench if they wanted to. or the few that are issued shovels quickly drop them to carry ammo or stolen food.
The russian guide is indeed very cool, updated, realistic and casual enough. Quite a read.
This truly is the aspect of war, My father talked to me about it when he said looters are bad and will likely be the first killed and also he told me the importance of camouflage and having to move or get in a trench, So even after 40 years the basic things are the same.
It is ironic because apparently looting was highly encouraged by officers, some of whom punished soldiers who failed to procure enough loot for their officers (and officers throwing out munitions and radios to haul stolen goods, like the colonel shot down with 4 washing machines strapped to his chopper).
@@littlekong7685 I'm sorry am i missing something here? My father never said the army officers encouraged looting and if you are talking about the Russians then that means those few officers should have never got a single strap of rank in the army in the first place.
@@KingdomRepublic Modern Russian army has a lot of issues. Many career officers are underpaid, even higher ranked ones. And abuses of and stealing from conscripts has been an ongoing issue for decades.
In this war, many conscripts fled to surrender to Ukrainians because their own officers warned if they didn't return from patrols with enough loot (Phones, jewellery, money, booze, clothes, appliances, etc) they would be punished, or even shot.
@@littlekong7685 i suppose that was an Issue in the Iraqi army after 1991 when the embargo hit them and when America faced them in 2003 they couldn't hold for much.
It seems every army who had the Soviet Doctrine and Soviet Weapons performed very poorly, countries like Poland, Russia and Iraq and so on will perform Generally a lot worse against countries like Germany, France and Britain.
When the Russians attacked i thought they will win in 8 or 9 weeks now it's been almost a year and Ukraine is no where near defeated.
Why the Russians didn't learn anything in the past 32 years since the USSR collapsed is a mystery to me.
I am reminded that during the Pacific War, US military intelligence was able to estimate the numbers of Japanese soldiers stationed on a base or island with great accuracy (more or less) simply by counting the number of privies that were observed by aerial reconnaissance, and the Japanese military never caught on.
This is an excellent. I forwarded it to 2 family members on active duty in US Army
Excellent video. Love how you go straight to primary sources and do the comparison and find common points between the two documents from opposite sides of this war.
Wow! That was an incredible video. It really cleared the fog on a lot of what is going on over there and how each side views the war.
I liked the russian perspective and it seems a lot more personal. You cant fight in the war if you are dead.
The russians are doing every but what they say... " I live - I fight _ I win! It appears the Ukrainians are the only ones with the intelligence to follow even russian indoctrination! eh?! Slava Ukraini!
@@sqnhunter I have heard that the Ukrainian KIA are over 100,000 as reported by the appointed EU leader (I dont know her name or title) and Russian KIA are estimated around 15,000-20,000.
Obviously you cant trust the ukrainian government or russian to give accurate numbers but it sounds like the russians are doing a lot better at not dying.
Actually the best way to stop the killing would be a peace deal. Let the territories that want to be part of russia join the federation and those that want to stay ukrainian stay with ukraine.
The Russian view was written to be more personal. It's to troops, not analysts
@@ew3612 No person has reported any figures for Ukrainian KIA or wounded. Its kept a state secret for a reason....not like stupid Russian reporters blurting theirs out. Russian KIA is 96k+ you can go on whatever figures you like ..but Ukrainian small precision strikes decimate Russian troops and equipment while Russia still decimates civilians. You cant kill troops while you are firing in another direction at civilians...fuktard! Russia wont let small areas break away from it...why should Ukraine let break away areas influenced by russian activists break away??????? no double standard...no peace deal...obliteration to every Russian soul on Ukrainian soil...and its going that way right now.
@@sqnhunter Here is an analysis on the KIA for both sides.
ruclips.net/video/Bfj2c5racUY/видео.html
Detecting a cell phone down to 3 Meters? Yes, plausible, playing with CB radio, RF loops (wire coat hangers in place of a base loaded antennas 'whip') and RF Strength meters we could ID which tower block a person was broadcasting from... we were kids with crude analogue kit, with more modern digital systems with computer support, you could do that as long as you have at least 2 receiving towers, 3 or more points of reception, 3 meters could be very possible.
And a 12cm mortar battery target zone is 100×100m...
Either you and the Chieftain read Russian, or it is available in translation. It sounds like an interesting read.
Neither of us do, but translation software works fairly well and when it looked odd, I asked Peter for help.
It is, it's very depicting
@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized congratulation for this good work.
Vielleicht sollten Sie etwas an ihrer Aussprache üben. An einigen Stellen musste ich stoppen um den Text zu lesen. Ist aber jammern auf hohem Niveau von mir:)
The Germans in WW2 had a saying, "sweat saves blood", reminding their troops that they must put in the effort or pay the blood price for their laxity.
That theme seems to run throughout this video.. A solider on the front needs to be constantly on top of is admin, keeping himself and his position in good order, or he will rapidly become a casualty. Given how mentally and physically tiring this constant effort is, i can only imagine it really increases the importance of regular unit rotations to get troops back to a comparatively safer location and let them "switch off" for a little bit.
also, i disagree with your statement at 16:50 that "discipline is not that important to well motivated troops". Discipline is VITAL, but well motivated troops are able to apply Self-discipline, to do that hard work without the NCOs constantly chasing them to do it properly, which in turn frees those NCOs to concentrate on other tasks.
I think that saying originally comes from the Greeks (Sparta maybe?). But the Germans were smart to live by it.
I totally agreed about what you wrote on discipline
Regarding the accuracy of locating active cell phones via standart telco gear (specialized HW can obviously do better) I have experience of operating such system some time ago - the resulting accuracy was between 20 and 200 meters (around 500 meters in areas with very poor coverage) depending on how many cells were able to detect that phone and obstructions (terrain, buildings, etc.)
Honestly that is good enough to point your normal recce assets in the right direction and area
@@hippoace BM-21 battalion salvo will cover that entire area of uncertainty.
You are not considering the US military satellite based real time surveillance system it is the best in the world and Ukraine has access to it . Calls are pinpointed to the exact location
assuming the phone is not moving you can accumulate the track over a longer time and get a more precise location
Enjoy the holidays. Thanks Bernhard. Nice summary.
Thanks, and merry Christmas & a happy New Year to you, too!
Yeah, I built a system to identify where people are for a Telco once. It's crazy how much precision we could get 5 years ago with just metadata.
Thank you very much. I will be definitely download Russian one, seems to be a very useful thing in general. I got partisan manual from 1942 which is a very practical guide how to survive, live off the land and be combat effective in a para military context. This pocket book with illustrations was printed by Soviet Union and distributed behind enemy lines.
Yes, but now Ukraine is urban territory. Cities not engaged in guerilla. Because to feed yourself in the city you need job, monetary system, grocery stores, logistics egc. Country life still possible, but not for many, because to "live off the land" you need a lot of land. Without working city centers - Ukraine can feed about 10 millions people at most..Rest will leave - and already leave - no matter where, Russia or EU.
13:45 "диверсионные группы" not particularly "sabotage groups" it is more like "recon group", deep diving through enemy line group nowadays
An excellent presentation as always. Merry Christmas to you as well!
I love this video in the level of insight we have
It is astonishing how much sound and profound information is available about an ongoing war
_Slackness_ and _reserves_ are not synonyms. I've not read the report, but assuming the authors chose their words deliberately, the difference is important. _Slackness_ implies excess working capacity while _reserves_ imply a resource set aside that cannot be called upon at a moment's notice. If, say, your communications staff only work half time, you can quadruple your man-hours in a moment's notice; however, if half your communications staff are reservists, you're behind the 8-ball if a crisis develops suddenly.
_Slackness_ is more expensive to maintain, but is immediately responsive; _reserves_ are much less costly to maintain, but slower to bring to bear.
17:18 amazingly the British Army also uses the word 'Buckshee' which in military terms means extra or spare. But I beleive came from the Hindi word 'baksheesh' which I think means gift. Probably a word picked up by soldiers serving in India during the colonial times and passed down to the current generation of soldiers.
Well, he does say "Oriental languages" and doesn't specify which.
He may well be referring to Hindi.
@@moritamikamikara3879 that's true. I guess orient means all of Asia not just the far east.
You’re probably right about where the British picked it up, but the word is even older- originally Persian, it has been integrated into languages across the Middle East and South Asia to mean a small gift, sometimes implying a bribe or backhander.
@@DarkSlug then I wonder if it was picked up by both army's during their joint occupation of Iran during WW2?
@@DarkSlug Pretty much this. Bakshish also became the general word for "pay", "tip" or 'bounty" in 19th century archaeological digs in the North Africa and the Levant, when basically everyone made locals do the hard manual labour and a little bonus was paid out when someone found something significant.
"If you stop, dig a trench" was something hard-learned by soldiers in the later period of the American civil war.
Ukraine will win...
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Point 66 : - "God Is With Us" .... HHMMMMM .... Now where have I heard that before? ...
It is a saying from the time of the Tsars. Way before a certain mustached man was born.
Pretty much everyone from the British Grenadiers, to Swedish Carolingeans, to Crusaders, to Spanish Tercios, to Prussian Jaegers used that phrase. Not sure what you are trying to imply.
@@dimakapeev3156 Gott mit uns was also not coined by the mustache man, but I apologize, I forgot that Germany has no history prior to 1933, if you stratch it maybe 1914!
@@999mi999 Did they also decorate their belt buckles with this inscription ?
@@flitsertheo Does putting a phrase on some item make it your intellectual ownership? Did Nietzsche print t-shirts?
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes for the holidays from Aotearoa New Zealand!
Thx for the great content! and Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!
Survival Rule #1 was covered better by Monty Python: How Not To Be Seen
For those who aren't familiar: ruclips.net/video/C-M2hs3sXGo/видео.html .
This came to mind as well lol.
Have a Merry Christmas Bernhard.
Thank you for the great videos.
Sweden eliminated Norway in training 5 times in a row and got accused of cheating. Then they told how they won. Some women soldiers in the Norwegian group was using tinder on their cellphones and constantly gave away their position to the Swedes that where triangulating their signals and bombing them on exact position.
"constantly gave away their position to the Swedes .." they swiped right on. "I would like to meet you, baby. Where's your foxhole?"
Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.
Excellent video and I look forward to seeing your work in 2023. Merry Christmas.
Wow. It's rare a video commands my full attention but this did. Great, great work here! Thank you!
5:33 I think they mean that meta data that's embedded in the (f.e.) JPEG's raw data... that meta data contains the geo location data.
of course, that is written in the quote in brackets.
RUSI is pretty good at analysis & Jack Watling often pops up on the radio(BBC) to give his thought about military matters.
Thanks for the video, very interesting. No getting away from the eye in the sky.
It’s the fascinating thing about Russian military theorists, is that they often have brilliant insights that are aggressively ignored and suppressed by the chain of command & government. See also: Tukhachevsky.
3:09 "Private Conscriptovich has learned the first rule of not being seen: Not To Stand Up."
Thank you. The poor men in the war deserve our sympathy.
Shoot and scoot is the name of the game it works especially in urban combat
I can't believe we live in a time where you can find OPSEC on RUclips while the war is still raging on.
Lots of information of this type has been posted to various sites since the beginning. The Russians do not seem to have placed high enough priority on keeping containment, especially at lower levels.
@@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x The Russian government has not hid its absolute disdain for the lower troops, pretty much anything outside Wagner group or below General is essentially a tool to be used, abused, and discarded until parade day. They keep denying death payments "because we can", or reducing them "because we can", when your own government calls you a hero for invading, a martyr for dying, promises your family wealth, then takes half for itself, changes its mind, calls you a coward and keeps the other half, its a sign of systemic disdain.
Interesting lessons to be learned, I'm sure that these studies will be passed around many militaries.
Nice bit of "trivia" about Nicolas Moran being a "light bird" colonel, thanks for that.!
6:10 - My old Galaxy S3 could use cell towers as a substitute for GPS (it did have GPS. This is a backup) and gave my position to well within 6m, in 2012.
Remember your old video on finish tactics in ww2, Could you do a video on tactics in the desert, showing tactics from ww1 and 2 and the cold war
Damn that Russian handbook is amazing and actually has some great advise. I love the digs they take at higher ups and the bad apples lmao.
PLEASE post a link to an English translation of the Russian doc for we linguistically handicapped. Bitte
Try using DeepL after you download the manual.
@@Lokislav I was not aware of that translation tool, thank you. But where do we download from in the first place please?
@@peterfeeney721 vvo.ric.mil.ru/upload/site176/s0uiIlbANp.pdf
Merry Christmas Military History Visualized
I wonder where my life has gone that I felt a genuine sense of frisson upon hearing of reports putting together operational information on the new war
Thank you for making this, this was absolutely fascinating
I vaguely remember reading that the Nazi Wehrmacht in Stalingrad complained that the Russians were using "Gangster Tacticts" against them. it's amusing how often you can find historical parallels.
That wouldn’t be the first comparison available between modern Russia and Nazi germany…
You don't remember the guerrilla tactics of the Vietcong?
Excellent work Bernhard!!
God that was super interesting. Stuff like this is just so cool to learn about like being a soldier and what not. Keep up the great work! Btw I love the German accent, im also German
Interesting and useful content as usual. Thanks for a job well done.
"For simplicity, I will call the report by yet a third name I had not previously used"
He's using a (culturally) German definition of "simplicity".
And Merry Christmas to you as well!!
15:35 Also works for Spanish bureucracy as well.
"Gott mit uns" sounds scary in every language.
God is on the side with most artillery.
"My hands are cold, you _gott_ _mit_ _uns_ I can borrow?" Hmm, English doesn't seem to check out with your hypothesis.
@@msytdc1577 omfg that's a brutal pun. Nice.
How can I gain access to the Russian book, “I live, I fight, I win! The Rules of Living in War.”
I cannot even verify the existence of this document in any language
vvo.ric.mil.ru/upload/site176/s0uiIlbANp.pdf
I can't find the Russian report online, does anyone know where i can find it?
Russia's ignored the age-old dictum of war: "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMY."
And a *Metal New Year* to you too! 🤘🔥
Thank you Bernhard. The Russian comment on rubbish reminds me of recent comments by Lars of the Survival Russia channel. He shows examples in his videos of the rubbish left in remote areas and on parts of the family property that are adjacent to public roads. He advises that Russians are particularly bad in this respect. It appears to be a general societal problem that has transferred to the Russian army.
Is there a way to read the Russian document in full?
As a German tank commander I learned all of this back in the 90s, nothing of that is new. (Cept that there were no drones back then, people didnt have cell phones, there were no networked vehicles and GPS was brand new... the details evolved, but the principles remain the same.)
Also, I am amazed that the Orkz dont do any of that, at least as far as one can tell from the social media footage. Even more amazing, that all of that is found in their field manuals.
Something I’ve realized from this war as one of the largest takeaways for everyone who isn’t america, and even america, is that the often decried ‘muh military industrial complex!’ Which everyone complains owns the world, somehow, is actually proven to be too small, most European militaries have less than a week’s worth of ammunition to fight with, and the Americans don’t have the ammo supplies to indirectly support for long duration while having stocks left for themselves, and not just artillery ammo, but the consumption rate of cruise missiles is astounding
I would agree about Europe, but USA doesn't even need that big of a stockpile. They can produce the ammo at a very fast pace.
@@stoyantodorov2133 tell that to the defense secretary, they’re trying to increase artillery production from 14 to 36 thousand rounds, it’ll take a few years before it happens
@@looinrims who cares about arty shells.
The US need bombs and rockets for the airforce which is doing most of the work.
Ground forces just clean the rest... Move up, encounter resistance, call airforce or precision arty fire support, then move forward again
@@VadarVadar and how do you call in artillery support without…..artillery shells
@@looinrims you don't need a shitload of rounds if you call in precision strikes...
So much military experience without furthering world tensions. Soon we’ll be able to deck out our jets and tanks with max upgrades.
Hi.. is the russian report "i live i fight i win the rules of living in war" available in public domain? I cant seem to find it
Same. Not sure if Google is censoring it or not…
@@marpatnboots highly likely.. 😓
Found the document, but its in Russian, not a translated copy.. 🥲
@@SoumalyaBarai where
I note with interest that one of the authors of the RUSI report is Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi. I would pay close attention to anything this man has to say on military matters, particularly those involving conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine.
He commanded the 95th Airmoble Brigade in the Great Raid of 2014 during the War in Donbas - one of the longest armoured raids behind enemy lines in military history! This is an event that has largely been ignored by military historians out side of Ukraine, and particularly on RUclips. Perhaps it is time to look at it again.
Most amazing thing I have ever heard, in 40 years of obsession with war & weapons... better than any Seal team 6 book.
"Omen" at point 54. Should translate as "Note" or "Notice this".
No, "Omen" is the most accurate translation. "Примета. Мусор на позиции - к обстрелу" is not a simple "note", it's an ominous warning, that was deliberatly worded this way.
@@XumukRC You may be correct, never seen this word used in an official document. Just sound too much like "superstition" in this translation. It still works either way.
@@StubbornBishopWell I'm sure to know, becasue I'm Russian :) And you right, this structure "sign - к outcome" is used in common supersitious expressions, maybe whole document done in less oficial tone to be easier to memorise.
@@StubbornBishop This isn't an official document.
Nice video.
If a cellphone has GPS and it is not turned off, a high level of geolocation accuracy is possible.
An excellent analysis. Looks like these reports should both be essential reading for Western soldiers
as usual, an excellent video!
5:42 I suspect traditional geolocation techniques aren't mentioned because they aren't real time. It can take a fairly long time to geolocate a photo based on landmarks because you have to comb through a ton of data, so even if people have been fairly quick to geolocate things in this war it's still usually on the scale of hours, not minutes. Therefore it's not really a threat to the individual soldier and isn't included in this guide. Also that section was warning them to watch out for civilian intelligence so obviously the same advice applies to geolocation via landmarks and geotagging. The immediate threats to a soldier's survival are things that can result in an immediate fire mission on their location, geolocation is not one of those things, it's a somewhat higher level threat to a position as a whole and not an individual soldier.
Russia may lose the war, but the Austrian bureaucracy will never recover from that burn.
Wagner didn’t seem to heed the advice about staying in conspicuous accommodation judging from the recent Melitopol strike.
And the world is a tiny bit better off because of it 😁
In all seriousness, how many Russian Mobiks will read this manual, and if they read it, how many will internalize it?
It sounds like a great tip source for Russian professional soldiers, but a lot of those guys are already pushing up the sunflowers on the Ukrainian steppe. But also, as much as this is good common sense, I would guess that most/much of it is already known by most competent warfighters - so the fact that it's necessary seems to be an implicit indictment (yet another one) of the state of the Russian military pre-Ukraine.
@@SonsOfLorgar Really?
@@cv990a4 Judging by the IQ of the Russian prisoners interviewed, not many.
@@yieldtothenight thats right... stoopid orcs should better use genius ukrainian human wave tactics. Just running straight into the meatgrinder at Bakhmut... or else you will be executed by your own.
The writer of the Russian text knows how to make a text interesting. Great writing style
Disperse, dig deep, or move fast I think is the most important thing in modern warfare. The ability to destroy has long since exceeded armor. Even US super carriers, the largest and most powerful warships to ever exist, are only survivable due to their sheer speed.
They're only survivable because the US has not engaged anything like a near-peer power in naval combat since 1943 or 1944. Aircraft carriers are great for power projection against inferior powers, but if it comes to a shooting war with someone who can shoot back, the carriers stay in port or get sunk.
@@don_5283 France is building a new aircraft carrier, China is building new generation of carriers with emals catapults. Brittain just finished theirs. USA is going to make mini carriers for drones as well.
@@Tonius126 And every single one of those is incredibly vulnerable to anti-ship missiles and submarines and even potentially cheapie loitering drones. The economics of that exchange are exceedingly unbalanced. Again, carriers are great for power projection and flexibility of action against someone who can't shoot back, but against someone who can shoot back, they're a millstone.
@@don_5283 Not really. They're still the longest-range strike asset at sea and can't be matched in that regard, and they also still are core to the sensory data of the fleet via AWACS. Being able to deal with air threats before such are in range to launch missiles at the fleet is also invaluable. They fill a role that cannot be filled with any other naval asset. Supercarriers may find themselves on the way out following any future role, but navies will retain the need to have an AWACS, naval strike, and air superiority platform. With drones taking up less space than manned aircraft, it is quite likely we will see a reduction of size to that of current Amphibious Assault platforms, and a reduction of tonnage of cost as a result, but air power at sea remains, until proven otherwise, the greatest threat to other navies.
Long-ranged land based missiles, for all the threat they do carry, require targeting information to hit anything. (e.g. you can't hit what you can't see) Which means navy assets on site, aircraft, or satellites. The strongest counter to the former 2 are aircraft, and thus carriers, as distance is the most important factor in minimizing the threat they carry. The third can be shot down by anti-satellite missiles, which all AEGIS equipped vessels are already or soon will be carrying. Against a peer enemy, some carrier groups might be lost in the opening of the war, but with any lasting conflict? The carrier becomes, again, a core part to the survival and success of any navy.
@@SCComega It's lovely to want all the things a carrier battle group provides, but until you demonstrate how it can survive against a dedicated opponent with a capable submarine force and the ability to contest airspace to even a limited degree, it's folly to just expect everything will be fine.
Is there a link to a translation of Russian document or a link to where we can find the Russian version?
I am currently unable to verify that it even exists in any language
I got to 3:38 and couldn’t help but think of the Monty Python skit “How not to be seen.”
Every time we dug a trench in training someone would start complaining about why we don't do something relevant to modern warfare. I wish I could make all of them watch this
This is a bit off topic but I was wondering why NO ONE seems to be considering another option when it comes to whether or not to send main battle tanks to Ukraine. Feel free to pass this on to Mr. Moran or anyone else you think would like to expand on my idea. With the numbers they have in storage, Why doesn't the United States send hundreds of the M60-A3 tanks. I would think they could be reconditioned and sent in the kind of numbers to significantly impact the conflict. Any thoughts?
I am sure that if spade is used for cooking, then it immediately becomes useless as armour plate and even not great for digging. I do appreciate that in a pinch it could be used to cook, but it basically destroys it right away. If it get's hot enough to cook food - say 200C, then it would get annealed in the process.
You can fry eggs and things like that on it easily without damaging it
@@Finarvas Open fire ranges 200C-320C - High Carbon Steel annealing temperature is 260C+. What I am saying - using it as pan will anneal it, maybe not after single use, but definitely if that is done repeatedly. As I said - as last resort and once... probably OK, but it is not mean to be a cooking pan.
@@lp9280 Hmm. I have to mildly disagree. US soldiers in WW2 routinely used their helmets to cook in because they were pot shaped. The US military did a study and found that even after repeated heating over a fire, the steel helmets could still protect against shrapnel. I do not think the Russian report was suggesting that the spades could protect against bullets/rifles, but likely against shrapnel from an aritllery shell, say if they soldier was alying down and using it to cover their back/chest, even after repeated heating? I'd say they could still be effective, because we have examaples of soldiers in other wars using literal helmets as cooking implements and those helmets still being able to deflect at least moderate shrapnel.
@@carlpolen7437 mildly... :D
Do you understand what annealing is? I am not saying your spade becomes a cheese after cooking eggs once... And to be honest you making valid point - even without being heated it won't stop bullets anyway... that said if it could not stop bullet, it could not stop shrapnel from artillery for sure. For example standard nato 5.56 bullet weights ~6g, generally pistol bullets are lighter, other rifle bullets are heavier, but in general we are talking under 10g. The biggest conventional bullet one would use on the battlefield like .50 bmg is like 25g. The artillery shrapnel could easily be 0.5-1kg and it travels at very least 2 times the speed of sound. Maybe not as fast as 5.56, but considering how heavy is shrapnel the end result is way worse...
Long story short - what you means is "falling debris", not shell shrapnel... shell shrapnel punctures tanks if they hit in the right angle!
And yes you right - ruzzia report did not suggest it was armoured plate, however there is possibility of bullet ricocheting from the spade or maybe spade stopping bullet which ricocheted from the ground or wall... this is where harness of the spade becomes important, because the harder is the metal, the wider is the range of angles it could cause the ricochet.
Back into reality... I don't think spade is usable much as protection except of falling debris and some extremely lucky angles... my concern would that that using it as a pan would make the metal softer as result making it duller and losing the edge quicker, to the point where it loses it's effectiveness as a spade. I am just pointing out that heat over say bonfire is easily hot enough to anneal the metal.
Other point - yes cooking soup in the helmet is legitimate. Because soup being mostly water effectively cools the helmet and prevents it from overheating. Simply said soup can't reach much higher them than ~120C and if it is just to boil the water, then even 100C is going to be hard to reach. The metal is good conductor, so difference between inside and outside won't be much... say 140C max on the outside. Assuming helmet is made from good quality metal 140C won't be enough to damage it.
So - boiling in the helmet - legit, cooking on the spade - likely to damage it.
@@lp9280 Fair enough. You make some good points.
RUclips algorithm! I have no kids and I am ready to watch a video on reports of combat and I get 2 unskippable youtube ads, a 20 second one of Barbie and a 20 second one of Dinosaur toys!
Well, Nucking Futs Yuri described his units tactics on his channel and it's very Hit and Run
tbf they are specifically a recon unit afaik
Does anyone know where we can find an English translation of said "I live, I fight, I win" ? Seems to be an interesting read.
could you please give the link to the chieftan clip in your video?
Die Sache mit dem Schanzen als Schutz vor Artillerie und der Fliegerabwehr steht auch in alten Ausbildungshilfe der Bundeswehr (Kriegsnah ausbilden). Die hat man dann ... aus bestimmten Gründen ad acta gelegt.
It dosnt complie whit whit "modern" manuver warfare fashion of NATO.
Manuver warfare implies that your oponent is at least slow if not underpowered.
Concept of military intervention aka regime change and fight against insurgance.
Light cavalry charge...
@@ljubomirculibrk4097 Whut?
I've read "I live, I fight, I win!" and find this "book" very disturbing.
At first, it's definitely written by some boomers mostly with Afgan war experience. It was 40 years ago btw.
But what are much more disturbing -- braindead propaganda and things like this:
16. If locals misbehave
All protests, sabotage and espionage by the local population on the liberated lands are organized and guided from headquarters of Ukraine's Armed Forces and Security Service. So, in accordance with First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1978 Article 45, protesters may be considered as combatants without distinguishing marks.
It allows to detain local residents who obstruct our military personnel in their duties and treat them as POWs. And in case of threat to heath and life of our fighters it grants right to shoot them to kill.
Article 46 of the First Additional Protocol to the IV Geneva Convention allows us to consider all locals who take photographs and videos of our positions as potential spies. So, this deprives them even right to be taken as POWs with all of possible consequences to them...
But! Shooting unarmed is not our way. There are dozens of ways to "indicate our status quo". For example, protesters and those who films our facilities could be detained as POWs, interrogated, redirected to security agencies. The main thing is to act quickly, decisively and with Russian smekalka.
What a sharp contrast to Soviet Doctrine !!!! Can you do a video on Russian "counter-battery" fire as they seem to be the best in history in that endeavor ..... Great video as usual !!!! 🙂
Sounds like the pamphlets that the US puts out during a war from lessons learned
Merry Christmas