Excerpted:
The Russian military has undergone a rapid and comprehensive transformation since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 by optimizing itself to fight a positional war. The Russian military has made a virtue of necessity in that optimization, but its degraded force is now likely incapable of effective maneuver warfare at scale. The Russian military has revised the structure, equipment, and tactics of its units at every echelon from group of forces to company to enable itself to fight a positional war with low-quality personnel, insufficient stores of armor and advanced munitions, and poor command and control. The current Russian military can only conduct positional offensive operations to support its theory of victory — outlasting Western support for Ukraine and sustaining grinding territorial advances that Ukraine cannot reverse — and cannot currently conduct significant operational maneuver.
I wanted to bring this to this sub's attention, given the relative depiction on arrNL to downplay Russia as having shown itself to be a complete joke in Ukraine compared to its self-depicted competency.
That said, the author(s?) of this paper seem to suggest that Russia will learn from the positional situation it finds itself in and adapt the lessons to future conflicts with NATO.
Posted by Alekhines