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Try to dig out, if you can, a picture of the first ISRO rocket. You will be astonished. Hint: there was a bicycle involved somewhere.

This was heart-wrenching.

Stay safe.

May there be mercy for us who watch this helplessly unable to do anything. Again, after 50 years, there is that feeling of deep guilt. It is so unfair.

I'm not saying that these are untrue. I'm saying we should be cautious in evaluating them.

It sounds funny, but is very close to the truth. Most Russian post-soviet military reform was strongly called for by the mothers of dead soldiers. There is a deep suspicion among Russians about the capabilities of their generals, and their fitness for command.

A much more pointed way of putting it - yes, of course, you are right, they will lose their capability to supply/re-supply troops in the field due to increasingly stretched logistics. Your last line was not understood.

I sincerely hope you are right.

Painful to read. The Russian woman in the street didn't deserve this. They don't deserve Putin.

This is a recipe for defeat. What was Putin thinking?

True, but NATO does not necessarily want to go into the Black Sea. Their stand is very clear; they are going to sit this one out.

This may answer some questions, but the source is the Pentagon. While we all assume that the Pentagon is being scrupulously honest and has always been scrupulously honest, they may be under orders.

It is possible to reconcile these two facts. First, the Ukrainian forces may destroy a lot of Russian assets but still not bring them to a standstill. The Russians may have more than can be overwhelmed. Second, as attrition continues, quality soldiers will be killed off, and more and more of...

Presumably they will be delivered to operators who have operated and who have lost to enemy fire or to other reasons their original systems. It may not take all that much time.

If they are telling the truth, then they are in big trouble. This is incompetent war-fighting.

Yes, special forces are LARGELY full-time, long-service professionals.

This is an armchair based reply: please discount suitably. The backbone of any conscript system is the NCO. New recruits come on board, and are licked into shape over anywhere between one month and three. The conscript service in Russia is currently 12 months. The missing element is the...

Fair comment. Let us focus, as you rightly suggest. You may have gathered that not everybody is on the same platform regarding internal political developments, but this is not the place to discuss that. By all means, let us focus.

Not clear. Russian troops are not volunteers, they are conscripts. Do they have the luxury of resigning? In the middle of hostilities?

This will probably be even more effective than fighter jets, given that those will be prominent objects attracting hostile attention. Given also that the Ukrainian infrastructure is likely to deteriorate continuously.