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Russian Officers Employ ‘Meat Waves’ to Score Small Victories
When Russia runs into battlefield troubles, a few hundred dead ‘friendly’ soldiers can always help
It is a wonderful resource to have as a young, inexperienced officer desirous to show your masters that you are one of the gang. The order comes down: Figure out where the enemy positions begin and end.
Told you will have no resources like drones to provide you with a bird’s eye view of the terrain immediately in front of you, the commanding officer setting down his sweet cup of tea, brushes it against his bulging belly and causes some of it to spill out on the Soviet-era map laid out in front of him. Looking at the young lieutenant who just a year ago was more concerned with finding cheap beer and a date, raises an eyebrow and says:
“But we are the invincible Russian army and we don’t the tools that make the Western armies so weak and over-reliant. We have our bravery.” He winks and tells the kid to get it done with a rising lilt that translates into “or else.”
Captain Viktor Tregubov, a journalist/activist and a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explains how it goes.
The Wagner Group and the Russian military have been using a tactic referred to as “meat waves” to expose…
