The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

The Russians couldn't do much without overwhelming numbers most of the time. They did not appear to have the junior leadership like the western armies. They have never seemed to worry about casualties. When I was stationed in Germany, 80-82, they were expecting 10% casualties on live fire training exercises. Most things I have read about Russians is they didn't do anything without orders. There were times that if their orders were to take a hill, they continually attacked the same way without changes where the western armies most likely change things in the first attack if what they were doing wasn't working.

As for those in Stalingrad, what choice did they have? Fight the Germans or be shot by the NKVD? At least against the Germans, they had a chance to live, whereas with the NKVD, they knew they would be shot. For years, the description of an elite unit has been generously tossed about that is not warranted. Iraqi Republican Guards for one. I just don't see elite units in any of the lesser second, third or worse worlds out there. Countries just don't train like western militaries do.