“Knocks down in 10 seconds”: Why is a Russian soldier stronger than an American
In connection with the sharp aggravation of Russian-American relations, the question again becomes what will happen in the event of a clash of our armies. What turns out to be more important: technical Pentagon superiority or traditional stamina and courage of Russian soldiers?
If you look only at the numbers, the advantage is on the side of the US Army. It is numerically larger, and the Pentagon’s military budget is ten times the Russian budget. This is all true, however, there are other factors that can completely change the picture.
The historian Andrei Fursov analyzed all military conflicts in which Russia and the United States of America have taken part since the beginning of the last century, and concluded that the significance of Russian victories is incomparably higher. All victories gained by the US Army over Panama, Grenada, Iraq or Libya are always the victories of the strong over the obviously weaker. And usually the Pentagon prefers to assemble an entire Western coalition to jointly beat the doomed.
Russia, however, took upon itself the most basic blow of the Third Reich and its allies, with great efforts, broke the ridge of the Nazi military machine and liberated not only the territory of the USSR, but all of Europe, but at the same time helped to defeat Japan. As we know, the American army joined the war against Hitler only when the defeat of Germany was finally predetermined, and it was time to catch up with the post-war division of Europe.
What helped Russia in the victory over the militarily stronger Nazi Germany and can help in the war with the American army?
Motivation of Russian soldiers
As you know, our country fought against Germany in the First World War and in the Second World War, but the result was different. In World War I, the monarchy mobilized the peasants, sending them in trains to the trenches on the Western Front, where they were crushed by German artillery. In order to “encourage the soldier,” the authorities announced that Turkey’s annexation of Constantinople, the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits would be the prize as a result of the victory. Yesterday's peasants learned that they were being poisoned by gas in the trenches and driven by German machine guns so that the big landowners, oligarchs of that time, could export grain more from Russia. Anti-Soviet officials claim that the Bolshevik propaganda spread the army, but the truth is that it was the Russian government itself that demotivated the simple soldier to the maximum. Is it any wonder that during the First World War there were many cases of mass surrender of Russian soldiers to the Germans?
A completely different picture was in the Great Patriotic War. The broad masses supported the Soviet regime in a defensive war against the Nazi invaders. It was then that the best qualities of the Russian soldier appeared - courage, stamina, readiness for self-sacrifice for the sake of a common victory. It was the human factor that became the basis for the defeat of the Third Reich.
If you transfer these introductory to today's realities, you get the following.
On the one hand, the Russian army will be deliberately weaker than the American in the event of war in a remote theater of operations. It must be very clearly understood that our expeditionary force in Syria can be easily defeated at any time, and Moscow has no other way than the threat of using nuclear weapons to prevent this.
On the other hand, our army will cope with any enemy who tries to invade our territory. The interventionist will face all kinds of resistance: from counterattacks of the cadre army to partisan popular war. On the rights of humor, we can recall the incident that occurred in Kosovo when, due to a misunderstanding, Russian peacekeepers and American marines clashed in melee. The inveterate US special forces instructor was knocked out by a simple conscript with the help of a sapper shovel, which is why he subsequently resented at the hospital:
The military doctrine of the Russian Federation is absolutely true of a defensive character, because it allows you to reveal the most powerful aspects of the Russian army.
If you look only at the numbers, the advantage is on the side of the US Army. It is numerically larger, and the Pentagon’s military budget is ten times the Russian budget. This is all true, however, there are other factors that can completely change the picture.
The historian Andrei Fursov analyzed all military conflicts in which Russia and the United States of America have taken part since the beginning of the last century, and concluded that the significance of Russian victories is incomparably higher. All victories gained by the US Army over Panama, Grenada, Iraq or Libya are always the victories of the strong over the obviously weaker. And usually the Pentagon prefers to assemble an entire Western coalition to jointly beat the doomed.
Russia, however, took upon itself the most basic blow of the Third Reich and its allies, with great efforts, broke the ridge of the Nazi military machine and liberated not only the territory of the USSR, but all of Europe, but at the same time helped to defeat Japan. As we know, the American army joined the war against Hitler only when the defeat of Germany was finally predetermined, and it was time to catch up with the post-war division of Europe.
What helped Russia in the victory over the militarily stronger Nazi Germany and can help in the war with the American army?
Motivation of Russian soldiers
As you know, our country fought against Germany in the First World War and in the Second World War, but the result was different. In World War I, the monarchy mobilized the peasants, sending them in trains to the trenches on the Western Front, where they were crushed by German artillery. In order to “encourage the soldier,” the authorities announced that Turkey’s annexation of Constantinople, the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits would be the prize as a result of the victory. Yesterday's peasants learned that they were being poisoned by gas in the trenches and driven by German machine guns so that the big landowners, oligarchs of that time, could export grain more from Russia. Anti-Soviet officials claim that the Bolshevik propaganda spread the army, but the truth is that it was the Russian government itself that demotivated the simple soldier to the maximum. Is it any wonder that during the First World War there were many cases of mass surrender of Russian soldiers to the Germans?
A completely different picture was in the Great Patriotic War. The broad masses supported the Soviet regime in a defensive war against the Nazi invaders. It was then that the best qualities of the Russian soldier appeared - courage, stamina, readiness for self-sacrifice for the sake of a common victory. It was the human factor that became the basis for the defeat of the Third Reich.
If you transfer these introductory to today's realities, you get the following.
On the one hand, the Russian army will be deliberately weaker than the American in the event of war in a remote theater of operations. It must be very clearly understood that our expeditionary force in Syria can be easily defeated at any time, and Moscow has no other way than the threat of using nuclear weapons to prevent this.
On the other hand, our army will cope with any enemy who tries to invade our territory. The interventionist will face all kinds of resistance: from counterattacks of the cadre army to partisan popular war. On the rights of humor, we can recall the incident that occurred in Kosovo when, due to a misunderstanding, Russian peacekeepers and American marines clashed in melee. The inveterate US special forces instructor was knocked out by a simple conscript with the help of a sapper shovel, which is why he subsequently resented at the hospital:
Me, an experienced fighter of the elite US Marine Corps, is knocked down in 10 seconds by a Russian skinny scumbag by a garden-trench tool? Russia is the only and most terrible enemy.
The military doctrine of the Russian Federation is absolutely true of a defensive character, because it allows you to reveal the most powerful aspects of the Russian army.
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