JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Forces and Firepower Are Misallocated, U.S. Officials Say” – New York Times

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“American strategists say Ukraine’s troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive’s main front in the south.”

“Ukraine’s grinding counteroffensive is struggling to break through entrenched Russian defenses in large part because it has too many troops, including some of its best combat units, in the wrong places, American and other Western officials say. The main goal of the counteroffensive is to cut off Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine by severing the so-called land bridge between Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula. But [reportedly] instead of focusing on that, Ukrainian commanders have divided troops and firepower roughly equally between … east and … south …. Under American war doctrine, there is always a main effort to ensure that maximum resources go to a single front ….”

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