the u.s army dropped their second RWOW(russia way of war)

https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2025/07/11/f2b1e75e/how-russia-fights-a-compendium-of-troika-observations-on-russia-s-special-military-operations.pdf

man this will get spicy with the armchair generals here

>>64066214 (OP)
What does Stargate have to do with this thread?

>>64066230
spoken like a true goauld

>>64066230
There has not been the disclosure of operations as expected by our agreement.

>>64066214 (OP)
OP has made the mistake of posting a lust-provoking image more interesting that the his topic. Amanda Tapping instilled my love blondes with short hair and God bless her for it.

>>64066214 (OP)
Looking at it. Russian doctrine viewing war as a "science" rather than an "art" sounds very Soviet. The book really doesn't like their lack of NCOs. They have lost 3,000+ officers in the war because they lack NCO equivalents and the higher-ranking officers get closer to the front lines. This reminds me of Lev Rokhlin, a talented Russian general (Jewish in fact) who stepped in during the disastrous first Chechen war and reorganized the Russian forces from inside a burning building (he was later killed a few months after trying to stage a veterans' protest against the government).

There's a chapter on Russian intelligence. It reminded me of this story about how Russia had spent a couple million on these online influencers. It was a goofy amount of money for what they got out of it, and I saw people doubt whether it was even true because it didn't seem to make that much sense. This book talks about Russian recruitment of agents in Ukraine, but it makes sense now because the authors are like, Russian intelligence is actually kind of dumb and bad at its job, and also corrupt. They do recruit people who are just "in it for the money" and they don't get much out of those people, and the handlers themselves will pocket payoff money.

>>64067250
the reoccuring trend of bribed assets and double-agents is that they always do it for a weirdly small amount of cash. like that CIA head who turned on the US and got dozens of agents executed for like $5M

>>64066248
It's Burns, obviously.
>>64067324
I always thought it was kind of silly that Mayborne sold out to the trust for just $3M but now that you mention it I guess it makes sense.

>>64066214 (OP)
is it a coincidence that this thing looks EXACTLY like a miniature wargame rulebook?

>>64066974
Denise Crosby for me, embarrassingly enough. Short hair pilled at a young age, no chance.

>>64067250
>Looking at it. Russian doctrine viewing war as a "science" rather than an "art" sounds very Soviet
They love their rules. If you follow the rules, you're technically not doing anything wrong even if nothing goes right.
Army corps HQ drafts a plan based on the rules, the mission is given to the brigade, units get orders on paper signed by all the important people and everyone knows everything. The orders may be a week old and written by some drunk tards who thought the other platoon exists when it doesn't, but if you at least try to follow them you didn't do anything wrong, and you have a paper trail to prove it.

i made the mistake of reading it

mistake because its too long and i liked it
the points they make

1)russia has a fundamental view on technology and officer vs nato
their tech is simpler by design because of the way they fight
they rather lose trained (to those systems) officers that can quickly be replaced rather than having highly trained officers nato style being trained on over complicated systems that takes almost twice the manhours to teach to

2)they see russia losing 70% of their "old" officers from the field to the higher ups as a blessing for the russian army because it allowed for younger people to take the job and transform it into today's realities

3)as everybody expected the logistic system of russia hasnt changed doctrine at all since the early soviet times

4)they showed a very quick adaptability on the drone warfare to a point that they are now the ones innovating on this front

>>64067250
>Russia spent money
>through multiple proxies
>didn't do anything
I remember liberals saying that this was active treason lamo.

>>64066214 (OP)
Based Troika fans

>>64067476
The use of maps with byzantine complexity is another interesting thing. They come across like the KMT always does in Chinese war movies where it's a trope for them to have a BIG MAP while Mao and the other Chinese communists would have a hastily drawn map on the back of a napkin.