Putin is largely ignoring the expertise of his military advisors, US analysts said in a report. Instead, he is making most of the key decisions on his own, they said. The experts at the RAND Corporation said Putin has proved more cautious than many expected. Russian President Vladimir Putin is making key decisions about the Ukraine war largely on his own, without input from his generals, analysts said in a report published last week.
But while doing so, Putin has proven to be more cautious than expected, said the report from the US-based RAND Corporation.
“Putin [is] making key decisions largely on his own without substantial influence from the Russian General Staff,” the analysts said in the report.
RAND said that was simply because Putin does not trust those around him — and so makes “little use of economic or military expertise” at his disposal.
While this is true, you have to remember that most of these generals survived the war and wanted to rescue their own reputations by blaming the dead guy (Hitler) for every setback. In fact, the Battle of Kursk—which was a disaster—was planned by the OKW against Hitler’s preference. That battle wasn’t well-known in the west until the USSR’s archives were opened in the 1990s because the OKW generals decided to downplay a disaster they couldn’t pin on Hitler.
Teue.
Also, there was some stuff that worked out, but was stupis. Like the raxe to the sea. Like, it turned out to be an amazing move, butif the British and French reacted differently, they could’ve ended Germany’s tanks then and there.