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As the 'Art of War' develops we see that previously very effective 'weapons' and tactics are often bypassed by new and more effective equipment or strategies.

Lines of troops in tightly packed formations would have been cut to pieces during WW1
Cavalry is another example and pretty much lost it's impact during WW1.
Trench warfare wouldn't have worked too well in WWW2

As the fighting in Ukraine has shown us. there are things you wouldn't want to be 'sitting in' during the next major conflict-

A: Tanks
B: Most surface warships

Maybe Ukraine isn't the war Putin is waiting for, personally I can't see that to be the case, because wouldn't be an even bigger mistake to take on the EU and it's Allies, especially if Russia is bust?

fwiw, a left field question, where does the OECD sit in this war, and how does that relate to the OPEC position?

Is it totally wrong to assume that some of Putin's obvious Allies might not be?

Maybe Ukraine isn't the war Putin is waiting for, personally I can't see that to be the case, because wouldn't be an even bigger mistake to take on the EU and it's Allies, especially if Russia is bust?

fwiw, a left field question, where does the OECD sit in this war, and how does that relate to the OPEC position?

Is it totally wrong to assume that some of Putin's obvious Allies might not be?

In the context of Russia’s overwhelming troop, tank, artillery, missile and naval forces and air superiority, it is a catastrophic failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan

20 years later we didn't hear about any of it being a failure 2 months in.

I'm not sure the comparison is valid.

I suppose we could argue casualties in Allied forces in Afghanistan / Iraq, even though always too many, were pretty low by comparison. I don't recall swatches of Allied commanders being caught or killed, nor do I remember the Allies sending conscripts to their death by the hundreds or thousands in the early stages. If we want to use the Afghan / Iraq scenario as a comparison, in Putin's case the early rate of casualty and leadership loss seems unsustainable.

Despite the claims in some media segments, I do not specifically recall the Allies deliberately targeting operational hospitals, civilian apartment blocks or civilian train and bus transport, or flattening whole residential suburbs for no apparent good reason. Nor do I recall the Allies directly or indirectly threatening the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, or bombing / shelling nuclear power facilities in Iraq.

I note that many of the Allied casualties in Iraq / Afghan were delivered courtesy of Putin supplied munitions.

That was also an allied war.  USA with great Britain involved against what was in essence a bunch of camel herders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan

20 years later we didn't hear about any of it being a failure 2 months in.