WNU editor: Throughout history countries have used mercenaries to assist their regular armies in waging ware. But Bakhmut is to the best of my knowledge a first in the modern age where essentially a mercenary army was able to defeat a country's regular army in a major battle.The defence of Bakhmut goes down in history (as the first major battle in the modern period when a private structure defeated the regular army of a large country in combined arms warfare).
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) March 3, 2023
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Bakhmut Is The First Major Battle In The Modern Age When A Private Army Defeated The Regular Army Of A Large Country In Combined Arms Warfare
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Mr attitude. You must be on the front lines to know that info.
Wait what? Depends on what "major battle" means. There's plenty of times in history where mercenaries won battles. Maybe not the most told storys now. There was this stranded Greek-Macedonian mercenary army running around in Persia beating the persians everywhere until they could get home. I would argue that those battles was pretty big, all of them.
I dont know why you would even post this nonsense quoting a bias(and delusional) random on twitter.
Except of course Wagner PMC did not beat the Ukrainian Army. By the end of the battle, Wagner PMC was just one small component of a greater whole that involved not just regular units of the Russian Army but elite formations like the Airborne and Naval Landing. Not to mention most of the artillery, support, air force, etc. were all Russian military. The tweet shown is complete nonsense. Posting it only confirm WNU Editor is now acting like a propagandist, not a serious analyst.
While it appears that the Russians will soon occupy Bakhmut, this operation is not going to go down in the annals of world military history as glorious. It will have taken Russia seven months and several tens of thousands of dead to advance less than ten miles to take a town of 70,000 people. If Russia immediately launches another such offensive, they just might be able to reach the border of Donets Oblast by the end of five more years.
But if course for now, just like the Russian victories at Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, the Russians will be able to crow. Relatively slow advances done at huge cost. We'll have to see in a few months how it compares to Ukraine's future counter offensive once the ground hardens.
Chris
Yes of course Chris
to advance into a town of 70,000 people
What you for got to mention again, is that area had about 20 Ukrainian combat brigades defending it. The comment of tens of thousands of dead? Who says? There is no way of really knowing how many Russians died in that area? If you are basing that statement off of Ukrainian kill reports , you know as well as the rest of us here that those numbers are not worth the paper they are written on.
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