"Naturally, men are going have to be killed, possibly a lot of them. They'll absorb bullets and shrapnel, and by doing so make it possible for others to get through...say five percent killed by our own barrage - that's a very generous allowance. Ten percent more again in no man's land, and twenty percent more again into the wire. That leaves sixty-five percent, and the worst part of the job over. Let's say another twenty-five percent in actually taking the Ant Hill - we're still left with a force more than adequate to hold it."- Paths of Glory (1957).
Video Title: Rabotino: A Ukrainian Breakthrough? Source: Vladimir Brovkin. Date Published: September 2, 2023. Description:
Here I discuss the military situation at the front around the village of Rabotino, where the Ukrainian forces claimed to have breached the first line of Russian defensive positions. What are the milirary and political implications of this in short and long terms? What are the Ukrainian war aims and to what extent they are reachable?