12 weeks on, how Ukraine conflict is redefining the nature of modern warfare

The Russia-Ukraine war has been going on for 12 weeks now and Ukraine's military has halted the larger military superpower in Russia. In Episode 1003 of Cu t The Clutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about the changing nature of the modern battlefield where tanks, fighter aircraft have been replaced by portable anti-tank missiles, precision artillery and unmanned drones.
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[@engtechno]

The West inflate too much. Russia is almost achieved its goal. Chiev and Kharkiv are just a flank for hit and run tactic. Russia has only two more pockets to finish of but Ukraine put about 100000 troops with massive network of trenches to defend those pockets. Russia withdrew from Kharkiv flank because Ukraine sent 40000 militias to support the 3 mobiles brigades. Having said that because of Russia divided its Kharkiv troops into two flanks. The 40000 Ukraine militias didn't achieve its goal. Another Ukraine troop reached Russia border but is now in between two Russia artillery strike positions. In the uncertainty, the front line was almost halt but yesterday, Russia is seemed to take 3 more towns from Ukraine. If Russia can hold this new capture, one Ukraine flank must either retreat or face Azovstal situation. For Ukraine, the 3 mobile brigades plus the remnant from 40000 militias couldn't even drive the remnant Russia military from Kiev. In the south for example; Ukraine moved 79 brigade to become one of the 3 mobile brigades. Ukraine 25 brigade stretched its defend area to cover withdrawal 79 brigade. That lead to Russia could take one town and attack the second town in the area that was stalemate. If I was Russia, I will move 2000 troops from Azovstal to push through this area and either disrupt or cutoff supply to 40000 Ukraine strong defenders in Donbas (not the cripple 40000 militias). Therefore, if you get news from the West alone, your analysis may not accurate to what is going on in the field. Like for instance; at first I thought Ukraine troop who destroyed Russia platoon was from Ukraine 14 brigade but now, it appears 79 brigade rather.

[@Vishnugupta-fi3oe]

David Goliath ulta go gaya. But one of the most insightful CTC in the recent past.

[@leosampai7438]

X28

[@gautamchury1612]

Q0

[@jonasolsson2256]

Hello from Sweden. I really apreciated your well informed and interesting analasys and not at least your Davis Cup clarification… :-) !!! So how many times have Sweden won the Davis Cup? Thank you and thank you for your wonderfull accent, it brings back memories from backpacking in your amazing country in 1980-81.

[@karankapoor2701]

Is it true that crime has rapidly increased in Sweden since you guys took all muslim refugees in from middle east , they also burnt a city in Malmo i heard , i think you guys open door policy has backfired , muslim refugees can never integrate , i hope you guy can clear Islamist sympathisers from there

[@jonasolsson2256]

@@karankapoor2701 And last but not least, Sweden has won the Davis Cup SEVEN, yes 7, times!!! :-)

[@karankapoor2701]

@@jonasolsson2256 what's that gotta Do with my comment

[@jonasolsson2256]

@@karankapoor2701 I wrote you a really long answer and after sending it I remembered your comment about the Davis Cup. So I made that little comment in a new answer and for some reason that made my original answer disappear. Unfortunatly I have a really bad back injury, so I have to rest for a while but I will make a new try a little later.

[@jonasolsson2256]

@@karankapoor2701 I’m sorry but my back doesn’t work, I Will try to comeback tomorrow.

[@bespokelearner]

Now the worst thing for Russia is that everyone knows how bad is a Russian tank or missile.. Their military industrial complexes will have a hard time selling these weapons..

[@zokikostadinov7061]

you stupid..dont youwonder why on your media there aint shown a single destroyed ukrainian nazy equipment? and dont you wonder how 207k in total on russsian side beating the crap out of ukrainian nazis who have in donbas over 400k troops?

[@parshowjyotiphukan8445]

I hope the Indian military learns from this war and the Azerbaijan -Armenia war. Old achool thinking will lead to ruin. I believe in this regard the chinese are far ahead of everyone. They have already sensed the changing nature of warfare and hence their focus on longer range precision missiles and artillery along with other niche technology like cyberwarfare and drones.

[@Risen2008]

Are you a soldier?

[@chokaling]

Well, we thought the Russians were also far ahead of everybody...

[@bulthaosen1169]

We are not going to be fighting an urban war. Our borders are desolate. Completely different environments. What we need is area denial systems and more detection ability. And lots and lots of artillery. We don't have much use for tanks.

[@TheFlagUnit]

@@bulthaosen1169 China could just shoot a nuke in the Himalayas and cut both countries off from each other

[@slipperyslytherin3470]

@@bulthaosen1169 BLITZKRIEG is my favorite word from WW2 history since you have mentioned tanks.

[@user-ez9ng2rw9c]

As someone with an amateurish interest in military history, i think the 150 years time may be referring to the Franco Prussian conflict, which saw General Helmut Von Moltke, uncle of the infamous WW1 general, effectively create the way modern warfare is fought through the system of small units and more intiative for mid level commanders. It also led to the adoption of concepts such as general staff(followed by almost every professional military since then to my knowledge) and proper systems of mobilization. It effectively killed the idea of battalion sized blocks and mass companies lining up to shoot each other slowly, regularised the idea of modern firearms being undoubtedly the most effective weapon of war even in small concentrated groups instead of a mass spray of bullets, and had what was likely the last successful (melee) cavalry charge ever held (interestingly enough, Otto Von Bismarck, the Prussian Chancelor who was the political force behind this war, got news that his soldier son had died in the charge, which later turned out to be an exaggeration when Bismarck personally rode over to the front, expecting to find him dead). If anyone has any other options or ideas, I'd be happy to hear. Also, I'm effectively quite sorry for using that particular word so much.

[@jimb9063]

Yes, probably true to say that the French and Prussians/Germans influenced 19th C and early 20th C land warfare the most. Of course, many others have played their part, The Boers immediately spring to mind.

[@gaulehero]

Wrong analysis of the Franco Prussian war. The MAIN reason Germany led by Bismarck won over French was their superior logistics, especially the railways. Railways was the key to German victory.

[@user-ez9ng2rw9c]

@@gaulehero I disagree. Logistics were an important facet, but many writers repeatedly mention that the French had simply no counter to this new means of fighting. The French railway system while not built for war, was still existent and well built. It was a war won by logistics as any war is won by logistics. But those logistics were built and secured into enemy territory firmly on tactical and strategic superiority, despite arguably inferior equipment.

[@thechosenone1533]

@@gaulehero The two are not mutually exclusive. You can win a war with both superior tactics and superior logistics.

[@FLASK904]

@@user-ez9ng2rw9c I don't know. It is widely understood that the Franco Prussia war was won due to the Prussian's basically being at the front in large numbers. They mobilized faster and in greater numbers and while French battalions were still making their way through the country side which basically allowed the Prussians to dictate where the battle was fought and how better known as the "violence of action". Prior to that, the largest military conflict in Europe was the Crimean War, which was fought in an area that was complex in its terrain, but most armies has realized that the notion of a cavalry (in its original form) was dated because of the US Civil War reiterating that idea (as a lot of European observers partook in that war). In the Civil War cavalry units rarely fought on their horses, they were mostly used as a means to get to formation faster and then dismount and fight as infantry (General Buford's use of his men at Gettysburg comes to mind) Or as scouting troops for the larger army. On the battlefield however, they were still very much fighting shoulder to shoulder and firing volleys at enemy troop formations. Which is why these wars resulted in astronomical casualties. The Franco Prussian war, the Japan Russo war, nor WWI really relied on small cadres of troops and the "maneuver warfare" of platoons and companies that we look at today. They were still very heavily reliant on bulk charges across entrenched positions supported by artillery fire. Infact one of the major critiques of General Haig, Moltke, and Von Hotzendorf was that they didn't trust their subordinates with regards to battle tactics. It wasn't till the Americans got involved that things really changed, towards the tail end of WWI, after the disaster of the Spring Offensive in 1918, that the notion of maneuver warfare really came into study. Infact it was the British who invented the notion of "Blitzkrieg" via plan 1919 which called for air strikes into enemy territory, followed by armored assaults supported by infantry. The Wehrmacht were probably the first to really utilize small platoons and companies in effect support roles with larger weapons platforms in the "combined arms" warfare we know of today. What is happening in Ukraine is a symptom of two variables. One, which is a typical underestimation of resistance by an invading force via means of guerilla warfare (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq). Two, how much more effective shoulder fire weapons have become visa vi the cost of large platforms. Remember, NATO has spent the last 70 years preparing for war with the Russians and their weapons systems. The NLAW, the Stinger, the Javelin, the Starstreak, all are designed specifically to kill Russian aircraft, and tanks. They are easy to use, and relatively cheap. I dont think this war tells us anything we shouldn't already know, which is if you invade a country today, you better be ready to pay a heavy price in man and material as it has become easy to arm insurgent groups to effectively fight a larger "typically armed" force. And that the cost in terms of supply chains, loss of very highly technical weapons platforms is going to exhaust that force a lot faster than the insurgents due to their lack of those things. However, war amongst countries like India and Pakistan, or India and China, will still be a war of maneuver and intelligence. Maybe there will be more drones involved, but that won't really change the battle plan too much. It will be just as important to gain air superiority, Infantry/armor is still going to dictate the pace of any offensive action.

[@abhay222]

@17:26 - “Kitana min ho Gaya “ was the best line used in this episode😂

[@praveenkumarce]

I had to lower the speed to 0.75 ..

[@s.kaushik]

*"I remain a master strategist*" - Putin, probably. 😂

[@africankid5037]

Don’t let the propaganda cloud your judgement

[@f1aziz]

Look at the map, even the pro-West map will show you Russia is slowly grabbing more and more of Eastern Ukraine. As long as Russia is grabbing Ukrainian territory - Ukraine is doing opposite of winning.

[@africankid5037]

@@hardassteel but that's just what the western media is feeding you all funded to the gills by the US MIC. Similarly, Russian media is feeding that Ukraine is fully nazi and they absolutely wrecking it. Have you seen any war where there is no loss of personnel or equipment?? and Invading army doesn't carry cameras nor has the time or inclination to do sol? there is no doubt that Ukraine initially did cause significant damage. but as I said it's a war of attrition. Russia can afford to lose more but Ukraine can't. It is the daily grind and artillery that's causing Russia to gain territory. I am fully in support of Ukraine but we can't be blind to the reality. "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

[@devilish2136]

copied from twitter putin troll account

[@millevenon5853]

@@devilish2136 but it's true. Everyone thought putin was the best but all he has done is embarrassed the Russian military and damaged his economy

[@ThatsMrPencilneck2U]

Actually, the Germans showed the Russians that tanks were not that great, when they initially invaded. The WWII Wehrmacht was never as mechanized as Nazi propaganda would have us believe, but at the beginning of WWII, the USSR had a lot of tanks. Infantry was always able to take care of tanks, even when the only common anti-tank weapon was a Molotov Cocktail. The Soviets eventually started investing in mortar teams, and as they took out German infantry, they made the battlefield safe for their armor.

[@Ashish-yo8ci]

tanks may still hold relevance but maybe we need to see them differently. in ww2, I feel the T34 tanks were still pivotal to their success, due to mass production, ability to repair and ability to absorb damage.

[@suryavenkatesan9998]

USSR had a lot of logistical issues at the beginning of barbarosa. The majority of their tanks were stationed to their South and that's why there was a gaping difference between the progress of army group South and centre, and as the war progressed we have seen the legend of T34s. While i agree with you that tanks are obsolete these days in modern warfare, in WW2 the initial Victories for Germany were simply due to the logistical nightmare faced by USSR

[@ThatsMrPencilneck2U]

@@suryavenkatesan9998 The initial victories for Germany were essentially due to the momentum starts with the aggressor. Of course, the Soviet supply situation was a mess. Aviation fuel works just fine in gasoline powered tanks, it's the low octane motor fuel that wasn't good in aircraft. Only Germany operated many diesel machines, and aviation fuel only became kerosene in the jet age.

[@jonsnow6274]

Putler started a war to extend his power zzzzzzz

[@arb5529]

Russia failing so massively; I have serious concerns about Indian defence capabilities (not the soldiers but the material considering it is 80% Russian)

[@TheRishijoesanu]

India should completely stop military procurement from Russia.

[@chandubai]

Me too

[@tanmoypal11]

Just read Yemen civil war. Western weapons are also failing there. Heavy weapons does heavy damage but cleaning insurgents is not a easy task. Like till now Ukrainian losses are $560b.

[@Abbyramrosy]

I recommend they use only made in India or cheaply available made in China if a war brokeout between our western or northern neighbour. Proud to be an Indian 🔥🙏

[@Abbyramrosy]

The advantage is that we don't have to wait for order being placed and wait for delivery for a very long time. Make in India, no order and delivery fast, most probably by an Adani military solutions or a Reliance Capital Military Co.

[@anupvkale1]

Agility and precision are new dimensions added to the warfare. AI with modern sensing techniques have taken into another era, thanks for very thought provoking CTC.

[@rodtukker1904]

Depends on whether it is war or special military operation. In a war, they would have brought in a flock of strategic bombers like Tu-95, Tu-160 and cleanup the whole area without worrying about civilians. Russians seem to be very specific on what they are doing. It would be nice to see how media would sell a Russian victory after all this. May be they find a new word for defeat like they did call the surrender as evacuation.

[@Faiz-gl9uq]

Finally day will come to an end after watching CTC, Shekhar Gupta is one the most addictive journalist

[@yashchandan1_9]

True. CTC is a panacea for an exhaustive day😅

[@ramaprasadmajumder6449]

Completely agree. You can agree or disagree with SG but you cannot miss an episode.

[@darklords1984]

Totally agree. I wait until midnight for the day's CTC and go to sleep only after watching.

[@amar-2]

There are 3 points I see in some posts at CTC that I simply fail to understand. In no particular order: 1) NATO has flooded Ukraine with arms since 2014, 2) The Russian advance on Kyiv was a feint, and 3) The extent of Russophilia that doesn't seem to note some parallels with the India case. My own take: 1) NATO provided a lot of training and some defensive equipment, but nothing state of the art. Why? They didn't want it ending up in Russian hands, a lesson learnt the hard with the Stingers-for-the-Mujahideen program in Afghanistan. That is why on Feb 25, a stoic Zelenskyy said "I need ammo, not a ride." The Americans expected him to do an Ashraf Ghani; he didn't. More on the real Z later, as Shekhar Gupta might say. But before his tenure, there was a hell of a lot of corruption in former administrations. 2) No one would have kept a 40-mile stretch of armoured vehicles sitting in place 3 to 5 days as a feint. Yes, the lead tanks were destroyed along with some in the back of each road segment, but if the Ukrainians had the number of javelins they have now, a hell of a lot more tanks/APCs would been potted. As it is, the column ran out of fuel, then of food, and yet there it was on Maxar display, days on end. The creation of an artificial marsh by flooding a village north of Irpin also helped keep to paved roads, single-file. Pulling back to Belarus was probably the best Russian decision made in this war, er, military operation. 3) I am old enough to remember the 1965 war, the huge tank battle at Kasur (billed the largest since Kursk 1943, just northeast of Sumy) and the Tashkent agreement forced by Alexei Kosygin on Lal Bahadur Shastri, who signed the accord, paced his room late into the night and died of a heart attack. It was as bad a deal as the Indira Gandhi one on the 90,000+ POWs after the fall of Dacca (Dhaka). I have never trusted Russian officialdom since, never mind the ordinary folk that blindly support them. And yet the Hindi-Russi-Bhai-Bhai feeling trumps all reason. The notion that one can march in and liberate people speaking your language and sharing your religion... haven't we seen this film before? To some isn't Azad Kashmir the liberated part of the Donbas of the subcontinent? Now a nice hilly land corridor to China? I can understand the Indian Govt. being hostage to its arms supplier, but not the electorate. Ukraine got lucky in the first 3 days when Hostomel changed hands many times -- Russia's 331st Parachute Regiment took horrendous losses -- but ultimately didn't fall. The President didn't flee, nor did his cabinet. No one managed to assassinate him.. And he turned to be a good orator, with an excellent speech writer. Many mocked him as a comedian, but I consider him a satirist; the only other profession to increase his stature would have been of a bartender. He connects with the common folk using simple declarative sentences. People in western Ukraine who didn't vote for him now believe in him, follow his lead. And he seems to let the military chappies call the military shots. I heard a story back in 2019 after Zelenskyy assumed the presidency. He forbade officials hanging his portrait in govt. offices -- "Hang pictures of your children, so that you are considering their future when making decisions". Got my attention. Here's hoping his Ukraine makes it past the horrors of today. If he is truly Churchillian (never cared for that man, but he had his uses!), he will be voted out in peace time. But Ukraine will continue to be Ukraine, aiming for a better future and not fixated on the past.

[@karaipremnath6038]

Nice write up. Never understood the "love" for Russia shown by the many Indians; Be that it may, I understand that Zelensky, besides being a satirist and comedian is also a Lawyer and a Russian speaking Ukrainian Jew on top of that. And not many in India, know or care to know the complex history between the Kievan Rus (Ukraine) or Muscovy (Russia). Not many know that the most Ukrainians are Cossacks (something akin to the Jats in India)famous for their fighting spirit over the ages. Not many in India are aware of Bogdan Hmelnitsky, hero of the Ukrainian nation and the Cossacks in 1654 and his fight for Ukrainian Independence from the Polish Monarchy. I hope someone does a video on the horrors inflicted by Joseph Stalin and "Holodomor" the forced famine "of the breadbasket that is Ukraine in the 1930's. 3-4 million Ukrainians starved to death under Stalin, who engineered this artificial famine to break the back of the Ukrainian nationalists and the Kulaks, the thousands of Ukrainian farmers, who opposed Stalin's collectivization of their privately owned farms. Ukrainians have a lot of hatred towards the Russians and justifiably so. 2022 is the latest in a series of atrocities heaped on the Ukrainians.

[@ceasar8679]

Great write up. For a feint on kyiv who on earth would send such Russia's elite forces to be butchered and putin wouldn't have said denazification to remove nazis ruling Ukraine. Many naysayers of Ukraine mocked zelensky as a comedian but fact is he is a great leader with great persuasive speeches. One quote from him that caught my attention is , "freedom must be armed".

[@t5ruxlee210]

@@karaipremnath6038 Good points. Stalin's mass starvation policy in Ukraine also viciously targeted the Kulaks (small farm owners) in Russia itself. Much of the looted grain harvests were then sold in Western Europe and the cash used to begin buying the machine tools needed to refurbish the USSR's decrepit old Czarist arsenals so new weapons could be produced. This was all labeled as "The First Five Year Plan For Agriculture" to hide the reality. Well, some money was spent on "tractor factories" like the famous one in Stalingrad where during WW2 tanks were being repaired in some areas while the Red Army fought to hold off the invaders a very short distance away.

[@amar-2]

@@karaipremnath6038 Goodness! That was comprehensive, to put it mildly. Lawyers don't rate highly in my book, but I don't hold that degree against Zelenskyy. Decisions made about Azovstal in the recent past must have been excruciating, and now events are simply beyond his control. If they ever were. Most of my education about things Ukrainian has been anecdotal. I was once telling the tale of the 1942 Bengal famine attributed to Churchill, to be quickly countered with the horrors of the Holodomor (not to be confused with the Holocaust he said), and that Stalin beat out Churchill by a decade. I guess the 'mor' stands for death. I prefer book accounts to videos on such matters, and Madhusree Mukherjee's "Churchill's Secret War" is damning. Not sure I want to read about the Holodomor, having already looked into the life and times of Trofim Lysenko and his contributions to Soviet food insecurity, as it would now be termed. Lysenko's theories and practices were even exported, adopted by Chairman Mao in the late 50s during The Great Leap Forward, leading to famine in China. This was before The Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards, mind you. Anne Applebaum has written a book about the Holodomor, but I haven't read it yet. Some recent uploads are largely professorial, representing a POV. And in the case of the "Into Context" series, I have started looking at their Between The 2 Wars series lately. Check these out; YMMV. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZSxYZuHZ8p9j6M kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWKtemyVjLOlZ7M

[@Drkp23]

I think Russian military and their weapons are good only for military parades rather than during real business

[@TheRishijoesanu]

India should completely stop military procurement from Russia

[@chandubai]

😃😃

[@Shivam-br5bk]

Another military expert in comment section

[@TheRishijoesanu]

@@Shivam-br5bk kya military expert. He is correct, Russian weapons arr outdated

[@jatin2665]

Yup the same weapons through which we won most of our wars after independence . Problem is maintainence which Soviet used to do that's why their products were good cheap and effective. Now due to the corruption in modern day Russia and their inability to maintain their own weapons is the key problem.

[@louisgiokas2206]

Early in the century, when I was living in England, I went to the castle in Edenborough. In the shop there I picked up a book on the possible tank war in the Central plains of Europe. Now, I had lots of experience in this. I had done work for a decade at the Command and General Staff College in the US where all Captains and above came to be trained. When I would go to the officer's club there would be many hats there with lots of stars and eagles. The surprising thing about this small book, published by a British company, was that they were projecting a win by the Western forces because of superior tactics and equipment. What we are seeing now is that they were correct. Frankly, in Ukraine, the basic equipment is similar to the Russians, but the addition of advanced Western equipment and Western training is telling. Looking back on it, with my background, I believe they were correct in this book. NATO is so much more powerful than Russia (or the Soviets before them) that Putin is just grinding his country into the ground. At one point, early after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was talk of inviting Russia into NATO. NATO is a purely defensive alliance. It is a tragedy that Russia has acted as it has. They are condemning their people to poverty in the long run.

[@tapassinha9846]

Basically the American thinking is: you can't shoot what you can't see. When they go to fight a war it is based on this concept. The F-35, F-22 raptor's were made on this principle. They are invisible to the radar. Similarly their Abrams tank has sensors so far powerful that they can target the enemy far beyond the firing range of the enemy. For the Russian invasion of Ukraine they developed the ingenious starstreak drone. So their dictum "You can't shoot what you cannot see" should be supplemented by "You cannot defend yourself from something you cannot see".

[@louisgiokas2206]

@@tapassinha9846 Great point.

[@charleshennekam8671]

If they (the western countries, NATO) were right about a new type of warfare, why did they continue to have the tank bataljons? We have now seen that the new shoulder launched weapons destroy tanks in the hands of the Ukrainians.

[@tmmenon1947]

Great observation indeed!

[@louisgiokas2206]

@@charleshennekam8671 Actually, what was not discussed in the video is how tanks are used combination with other weapon systems. You need infantry support, as well as air support and good intelligence. The Russians, in Ukraine, have none of that. As we have seen, they often their armor in vulnerable situations with no infantry to screen them and no air cover. That is what allowed Ukrainians to ambush them with hand held weapons.

[@yeshemant]

14.45 ref to Gen Lakhwinder Singh is accurate and you got it right like always

[@vvgame]

Drones played a role in Armenia Azerbaijan conflict because Armenia thought they had terrain advantage but they didn’t have latest military air defense to shoot down loitering ammunition and drones .. also Israel and Turkey’s tactical support to Azerbaijan.. Anti tank , anti air missiles played role because of two reasons I) below par Russian offense II) way to ambitious war objective compared to what can be achieved Tanks have not become obsolete.. May be offense with Tank is not preferable

[@Contractor48]

No. Tank are still important. You need good reconnaissance along with it. Russian tactics are bad. Tank column is supposed to move in night under artillery, infantry and helicopter support. Tank is needed for penetration and holding a position.

[@varg92]

Armenia didn't had air defenses and the ones they had are from 70's. These drones failed on Russians. Russians are shooting them everywhere. Combat drones are already out of date. Kamikaze drones with AI, precision guided artillery, recon with mini drones are future.

[@arjunps6776]

The Ukraine Russia conflict is showing us how futile a conventional war is in this day and age. A big nation can't just bully a smaller country into submission with their big machinery. The smaller nation with the right technology and morale can resist and even win like Ukraine is doing. It's a huge lesson for nations like India and China who spend billions on military machinery. India should spend on high tech defense equipments than on heavy ones. After this it's time we reduced our dependence on Russia too. Being obese doesn't mean we're strong and healthy.

[@l.u.rehuher3714]

...not unless you're a Sumo wrestler

[@hpremjit]

True.... as we are discovering an obese Russia is a diabetic with multi organ ailments.

[@qad951]

@@l.u.rehuher3714 😂 But they are not obese They have a diet plan If they don't eat that amount they would get slim in just a week due to their super routine Watches a blog about them And india should focus on tech And devlop the country and make our millitary low Usa has already reduced the amount of personals needed for army and navy We need to follow it Many generals agree with me India has large population And many of the army personnel are unwanted An perfect example disguised employment We need more devlopment . And need more variety of job Humans as a whole are stopping in the development

[@ricky1231]

You are right. Russia weapons are inferior & that’s what India have in abundance

[@tlilecticmixtli1]

Shekhar, please note that "little" Ukraine as you call it is the biggest country in Europe after Russia, and also had the biggest army in Europe after Russia at the start of this war. It has been trained and equipped by NATO since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. So it was in fact gullible of us to think they would fold in a matter of days. Ukraine is currently being supported by NATO satellites constantly, so they can see every move of the Russian army. Hence tricks, traps and subterfuge are futile.

[@jithinv8794]

Little in many terms like advanced offensive equipment, little airpower, little to no naval power and huge terrain disadvantage in eastern Ukraine.

[@tlilecticmixtli1]

The Ukrainians are very deeply entrenched in eastern Ukraine. They've been building and expanding sophisticated networks of trenches and bunkers since 2014, in order to keep the separatist forces at bay.

[@shaukatmehmood2901]

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[@chandankumarchand6686]

@@karthika560 they switched side.

[@mbhang834]

Calling Russia a Superpower is a joke, but others who think that they are Superpowers based on Russian military hardware should realize that the joke will be on them when it comes down to brass tacks, no pun intended.

[@PrimericanIdol]

You can say the same about the US.

[@mbhang834]

@@PrimericanIdol No you can’t. US was tying a hand at nation building, naively thinking it can repeat what they did after WW2 in Western Europe and Japan, and failed miserably. As far as achieving their military objectives, they have not failed after Vietnam.

[@tgramachandran5125]

India can learn a lot from Russia-Ukrain war tactics & employ the same on China/Pakistan borders.The old style of tank/artillery warfare is no more valid & India change tactics accordingly.Kudos to Ukraine for fighting a formidable enemy with vigour this long.The moral of the story is that we needn't worry much about China's military prowess,provided we replicate Ukraine on battlefield.

[@madmantheory5216]

Dear old style still works and Russian showed the world the same lesson blitzkrieg with destroying key offensive assets followed by surrounding of key strategic locations and cutting supply lines and pounding with big artilary guns for prolonged periods till enemy gives up.

[@charleshennekam8671]

@@madmantheory5216 So far we have’s seen this. Then again, both sides are re-stocking for a new assault.

[@madmantheory5216]

@@charleshennekam8671 not both sides..only Russian restocking and the other side is restocking propaganda.

[@TheFlagUnit]

China is watching as well you fool.

[@mdhasmatalimondal1216]

Two main learnings from this war :- 1. Modern warfare has shifted towards drone. Forget Byaraktar TB2 or other dedicated attack drone . Even an average engineer or tech expert can make a grenade dropping drone within 1000$ . 2. Guerrilla war is going to exist. Russians have lost lots of tanks in kharkiv, coz Ukrainians are using broken buildings as a shield to launch Javelin/NLAW . Ukrainians are using buildings the same way Mujahideen resistance has used mountains .

[@superstar8162]

Two main learnings from this war :- 1. Modern warfare has shifted towards drone. Forget Byaraktar TB2 or other dedicated attack drone . Even an average engineer or tech expert can make a grenade dropping drone within 1000$ . >>> Drone's temporary success would be over soon. There are some new LASER weapon being tested now which would burn the drones in second. 2. Guerrilla war is going to exist. Russians have lost lots of tanks in kharkiv, coz Ukrainians are using broken buildings as a shield to launch Javelin/NLAW . Ukrainians are using buildings the same way Mujahideen resistance has used mountains . >>> Javelins hits the tanks form the top (the weak point of the tanks). Strong metal grill roof on every tank would have prevented Javelins from causing severe damage on the top of the tanks. I have seen in many KZbin videos that Russians have started using metal cage on top of the tanks.

[@mdhasmatalimondal1216]

@@superstar8162 Those laser weapons existed for a long time . In Libya Aselsan made laser shot down a Wing Loong 2 . That didn't stop drone warfare. How many can you shoot down when hundreds of swarm attack drone coming towards you ? Strong EMP is an option here , but drone makers are also testing electronics that can withstand EMP wave . And Javelin ? Well , latest versions have 2stage explosive . One for top armour , then next stage penetrate the main body . And guerrilla war isn't hust Javelin . Even a cheap RPG can be nightmare for infantry units moving through congested area.

[@superstar8162]

@@mdhasmatalimondal1216 Not talking about the old laser weapons. Very recently Russia has tested a new high power laser weapon called Zadira in Ukraine and was able to burn 100s of Drones. As far as ATGM isuch as javelin goes Israel has already developed ATGM killer known as Trophy system. It kills ATGM on flight before it hits the tanks. I am quite sure other countries will quickly develop something like Trophy system. Two stage Javelin is intended to defeat tank’s reactive armor. But, ATGM killer (Trophy system) missile destroys the ATGM during flight.

[@s.kaushik]

Studies suggest that only 1 in 4 men are happy. That one man: 11:35

[@watso-007]

😂 😂😂😂

[@Ram78979]

Excellent SG. Russian invasion is a good lesson for other countries that are contemplating of similar adventure. I.e China …Taiwan.

[@nickycruz8671]

This is how a cruel dictator will be defeated.

[@amitpandey-qw6sv]

Shekhar in between asked the producer/camerman “Kitna Minute hogya”. That’s the best things about this person, he doesn’t care about analytics, length , search engine. He means to deliver information and so he does. 😊 Keep Going Shekhar Ji.

[@pradhyudh]

How effective is our military ,we bought Soviet block equipment .a public fully transparent test of our systems is the need of the hour

[@anshulpunetha3080]

This is an updated version of Russia's ill-fated Afghanistan debacle, albeit on different terrain. Maybe there are more than a few parallels between the two theatres.

[@pstrolling9657]

The thing he said about the stalemate is the lie western media is spreading, Russians have captured some key towns recently, the major one is rubizne and popasnaya, From popasnaya they have captured 3 more villages 2 in the north and 1 in south, From rubizne they captured a town between it and severodonetsk, Severodonetsk is surrounded by ru army on 3 sides and river on one side. It will turn into another mariupol. And lpr also capture a major town yesterday. And a day ago they also captured 2 towns north of Lyman, which now also is completely surrounded by ru forces from 3 sides and 1 side by river. One major battle is also happening in avdeevka, where ru forces captured towns north and south of it , they are trying to encircle it, as it's the most defensive town after popasnaya

[@michaeltayeby6242]

What are you talking about? Americans lost in Afghanistan and Syria and Iraq and west losing in Yemen.

[@narayanshenvi8154]

Latest American arms are getting tested against the older Russian technology.

[@junkookbts1273]

Really ? Not so. US is sending 777 artillery , suicide drones and 1980s Javelin and Stingers. Imagine if the US really sent high tech weapons.

[@TheRishijoesanu]

India should completely stop military procurement from Russia. America America is should have always been our military ally.

[@stevenkraft8070]

Stinger missiles are from the 80s. In fact, I don't think they are being produced anymore, and the U.S. and Ukrainian armies are using stocks built 10 or 20 years ago. And the now-famous Javelin anti-tank missile has been around since the 1990s, though there is an updated version of the missile. So a lot of the Russian tank casualties were from missiles made 20 or 25 years ago.

[@sgn9754]

@@junkookbts1273 NLAWS are quiet new.

[@sgn9754]

@@stevenkraft8070 No most of them are from NLAWS, which Ukraine already had before the war and the additional ones supplied by UK.

[@TheRishijoesanu]

India should completely stop military procurement from Russia. US should be our main military ally going forward. Always should have been in my opinion. Soviet appeasement has been a disaster

[@saikrishnabandi8736]

@Rishi agreed

[@vinay7397]

@@manofsan its 2022 not 1971. Nixon is considered a disgrace in America and many think Kissinger is a war criminal. You.are living in the past.

[@HeavyLikesSandwich]

I wouldn't mind my food being delivered by artillery shelling.

[@SubodhKumar-pn4my]

You should take facts from ground not from mainstream western media

[@sachinbhatia81]

17:25 SG taking a time stamp 😉 #KZbinPro 👍🏻

[@prasadv]

Most of tactics explained in today’s CTC - we have seen them in the LTTE’s fight against the Sri Lankan Army and IPKF. In fact they should be considered as the pioneers of modern day warfare. Had they survived, they would have shown us the most effective way of using the drones!

[@arm-np8us]

War doesn't give winner, it give looser and bigger looser and Russia is the last one

[@kpkdhar3674]

The Main point you missed is, Russia's inability to use their Air Force at full force, on the day the war was started, Turkeys Drones, America's stringers, javelins, Germany's anti air craft missiles came a week after the war is started. Russia lost the advantage of using their air force. The same Russian air force used efficiently used in Syria and other parts. I have read in a defense article, the Russia's blunder is inability to use their air force on their first day. They should have demoralized the Ukraine by the time they received weapons from other countries.

[@ravisehgal.2694]

As we understand, None dictated to Mr.Putin to not use Air Force. Had, Russia been winning, we would have thought Russia gained even without Air Power.

[@millevenon5853]

Vietnam wasn't demoralised by airforce, I don't think Ukraine would be demoralised as well

[@tharunsat]

Russian air crafts and choppers were shot down in the very first two days of invasion loosing lots of personnels forcing russia to stop using air raids.

[@ravindra24kulkarni8]

on larger scene USA is weakening its one of the adversary Russia without any boots on ground.Lastly it will only benefit as it will hv lot business in building Ukraine, EU

[@priyajoseph7108]

Yeaa...sure...Russia dug its own grave

[@dibyajyotidas5239]

Finally Ruskis will sit back and do the simple arithmetic and come to the conclusion. "Cost of waging a war simply outweighs the benefits"

[@amantyagi5629]

For victory russian can bear whatever cost they can remember in WW2 soviets lost 2 crore people in chechenya around 40k. It is a strong country loss like this is not an issue. Their culture is very pessimistic only victory matter if putin lose this war people can't forgive him like Tsar who lost the WW1 were thrown out of power.

[@dibyajyotidas5239]

@@amantyagi5629 Just like the Nazis lost to the Russians. The Russians will loose to Ukrainians. You can defeat an army. That is war and politics mixed. You cannot defeat a whole population. Never.

[@amantyagi5629]

@@dibyajyotidas5239 it is more of a emotion not reality, phsically ukraine is crushed and will take decades to overcome it russia has achieve it's objective don't know why people are in illusion and can't face reality

[@dibyajyotidas5239]

@@amantyagi5629 Russia doesn't have two dollars in its pockets. Till date like barbarians it thinks it will conquer everything with military. It may take less than even a year for Ukraine to recover with all western dollars flowing in. Why don't people accept the West was looking for an opportunity to drag Russia in..

[@amantyagi5629]

@@dibyajyotidas5239 bruhh 1 dollar was 81 ubles before war now it is 58 russia economy is up by 2-3% where US economy contracted by 1% quaterly except west noone has put sanctions on russia on barbarian most liberal civilised country has waged war on iraq, afganistan and has hand in terror outfits in syria what happened to libya is not hidden at all yemen crisis is still on it refused to speak coz of saudis heavy words are nice to hear but does not weight at large scheme of things

[@risha013]

There is saying in kannada which when translated means "victor lost,looser dead"

[@orunabho]

And it was artillery that finally defeated the various Indian nations..in the pre modern era...by the Turks...resulting in 600 years of colonization.

[@hsachin]

No one in India is talking about implications of Ukrainian/Russian war w.r.t all the defense purchases that Indian Military has committed. With these learning, it’s time for India to stop buying Russian hardware going forward. An episode of cut the clutter on this subject with a defense expert would be greatly appreciated. IMHO, India has not been able to adapt and use newer technologies in warfare.

[@vinayaktrivedi9375]

We often continue with old school thinking until we are rudely awakened. The typical chalta hai attitude lead to the initial problems in Kargil. Heck even in Kargil there were problems about coordination between the Airforce and Army initially and we havent made much progress on the jointness of the three forces. CDS post is vacant for the last 5 months.

[@ivihari]

India has to close the deal with USA regarding 30 predator drones ASAP.

[@kakilakura_agro_fisheries]

Mr. Gupta said battlefield is frozen! In other news Mariupol falls! But I love CTC and Mr. Gupta's Analysis.

[@user-ez9ng2rw9c]

Mariupol had practically fallen for weeks. Just one complex doesn't change much.

[@123456789Ajs1]

You man David got much bigger firepower than Goliath 😅

[@amitabhabhattacharyya658]

Thank you print for this cut the clutter episode. Ukraine is fighting so bravely under proper leadership with patriotic motivation at their heart plus a world full of friends. Friends in need are friend indeed. Russia is just the opposite (no explanation required). Ukraine human resources even though being civilian, are adding up. Here I sadly compare ourselves and try to understand our national loss in terms of HR wasted due to not getting proper education that help a citizen to grow up in stature and confidence like the Ukrainian people done.

[@michaelivey4904]

Agree with the spirit of your comment. Just remember that even though a lot of the Ukrainian fighters began the present war as "civilians", many of them are veterans of the Donbass fight between 2014-2022. So there was a lot of military experience within the Ukrainian population at large when the war began.

[@darklords1984]

Even our very own Indian army's battle of asal uttar in 1965 is a primary example, where an army with larger and better tanks was defeated by strategy and the use of smaller -- quickly manouverable -- weapons like the humble recoiless gun 🙂

[@rohanshinde459]

I believe you mean to say the battle of Longewal

[@rameshkhanna8150]

War Hero Abdul Hameed I mean

[@darklords1984]

@@rohanshinde459 No. I meant the battle of Asal Uttar in 1965. It's considered to be one of the largest tank battles in history. This one battle changed the entire course of the 1965 war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Asal_Uttar read up on it

[@darklords1984]

@@rameshkhanna8150 Yes

[@shaukatmehmood2901]

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[@joanweightman2275]

Doesn't it all just reveal the one global question to be answered, "Why do men insist on war?" I think leadership needs to be handed to women who may squabble but would not chose war against fairness. Men of the world, it is time for you to get over your ego's and spend the fortunes of the nations to feed hungry babies, to nurture each other and grow in wisdom. God bless humans to humble themselves and choose peace.

[@randelr8638]

The Ukraine's resistance against Russia can make a good war movie like the 300 and if well made will create boxoffice records

[@TheAntsNest]

How so the Ukrainian Army started with 3x more soldiers?

[@randelr8638]

@@TheAntsNest I didn't necessarily mean in terms of number of soldiers but in military power and resources used in modern warfare

[@SkpalTube]

Ukraine wouldn't have survived without the support of US & European countries, both militarily and financial support.

[@kash60ishvlog67]

The Comedian of Ukrainse proved to be a Genius. He defeated the Dictator Putin, the modern Hitler fanatic.

[@priyajoseph7108]

Yesterday at Cannes he told modern world needs a new Charlie Chaplin to point out the dictator's cruely.I felt that to be quite ironical(infact he is also a lawyer and a businessman owning one of the the large production houses in ukraine)

[@cliff311976]

2500 nazov battalion surrendered today in Mariupol.. Go Russia.. Finish the war

[@piecefool567]

Ukrainians to Russians - - '' halwa samajh rakha hai kyaa ''

[@nagatribellive9105]

How much peaceful and happy of NAGA will .. yesterday and today tomorrow...if Britishers ( terrorism) not came to our motherland as (NAGA ) and not Divide us into three four piece two, three four countries.. How much peaceful and happy.....as NAGA.. in this planet Earth....... All this issue / problems was created by British rule.. BRITISHERS is responsible ..... We as NAGA are (we)still crying because of BRITISHERS tier us and, what they did to us. Generation by generation our tears is not dry..... Our father'/mother/son/ daughter/ family was already devid will you happy......? ( BIG Question Mark...) KUKNALIM NAGA without borders..

[@jimb9063]

Excellent as ever Sir! It's worth bearing in mind the effect of the large deliveries of ATGM's and their little brothers to Ukraine on the conflict. Their success against Armour maybe partly due to the disproportionately high number of said items available. Far more than usually issued to Infantry units. No need to ration national stocks either. Given the poor tactics seen from the Russian Army too, I agree that it's far too early to write off the Tank. If used properly in a combined arms scenario, and when not facing a seemingly endless number of ATGM's, I think they still have a role. One wonders also whether war will be conducted without needing the fabled "boots on the ground" before long? Continuous harassment by drone over enemy territory can shut down an army, or an economy more effectively and cheaply than traditional air power.

[@navani45]

While I agree with you the following aspects are helping the Ukrainians 1. The dedicated and determined leader in zelensky 2. The patriotism of the Ukrainians 3. The prior preparation of Ukrainians along with the underground shelters of world war vintage 4. The stocking of essentials to sustain the civil population which helps them keep their moral high. 5. The Russian soldiers and people are not convinced of Puntin’s strategy. 6. With all the above the replenishments of all kinds of logistics both military and otherwise from across the border makes it Sustainable.

[@jimb9063]

@@navani45 Oh agreed, there are far more reasons for Ukraine holding it's own than I mentioned. I get the impression that Mr Zelensky is everything that Mr Putin wants and pretends to be!

[@pradeepjaiswal3308]

Shaker sir it's seem Sweden and Finland are stuck in a catch 22 dilemma bcoz they both theretened Russia that they will join NATO, to give them protection against feature russin agrassion, but now, Erdogan, Turkey hai said that they will not allow to happen so, by using Artical 10 of NATO, because Sweden Finland supports Pro Kurdistan activities in thair respective countries. Now Sweden &Finland must be feeling like, "Dhobi ka kutta" (na ghar k rahe na ghat k)

[@stevenkraft8070]

Up to now, Erdogan has been very transactional in these kind of pronouncements--"I am against you doing this, but now you are willing to give Turkey $500 million in aid or trade, so I withdraw my objection." We'll see if that continues to hold true, but the current expectation is that after some negotiations Turkey will back the Swedish and Finnish applications to join NATO.

[@pradeepjaiswal3308]

I don't think so that turkey will back claims of Finland and Sweden, bcoz, its matter of thair (turkey) sovereignty, rest is in that lap of feature...

[@abhaygandu]

Why can't we all live in peace

[@shivaprasad8085]

Unnecessary. Stuff. This is the worst ever wasteful print episode from you sir. Not necessary. Regards. M Shiva Pradad IPS.

[@johnsonsoinam882]

If Russians were American, Ukraine never had a chance of redefining this war.Instead Ukraine had a 100% chance of becoming next Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@apsgill12]

Please explain Apartheid factor in 1974 Davis cup, thanks.

[@shreyanshpranshuchauhan5991]

21:10 I think it will be David with a bugger punch against Goliath.

[@florencioiiiubas1044]

Thank you Sir. Your content is very excellent, very comprehensive & highly intellectual. I am your new subscriber from The Philippines. Take care & God bless.

[@Selectvideos101]

21:12 sirji says golliath has got more power over David...though he intended reverse...

[@millevenon5853]

American senate just approved 40 billion dollars for Ukraind that will fund the war until September. I expect more Ukrainian successes.

[@laphantom6273]

Is India's military equipment good, does it work, with all the corruption?

[@Madzguy007]

i don't agree with you... Russia is slowly winning the Donbass region...And I don't think Russia wants to take over the whole Ukraine....just the Russian speaking regions that have been under attached since the US financed coup in 2004

[@tservo1000]

You really need to understand how Russia (Soviet Union) fought Germany in WW2.

[@baxcvbindia5499]

General Gupta, are you really qualified to make sweeping statements on Russian strategy and military tactics? I do value your opinions on Modi and Shah, and other Indian politicians; but Russian geopolitical and military tactics?, not so much........

[@Jpab_in]

He doesn't even know about APS on armours and he is giving sermon on modern warfare? Isn't he the same guy who rang the alarm bell about Indian army mutiny against MMS? Damn, every Tom Dick and Harry is an expert even when they don't even know half of the jargons! Really, people grow up.

[@thomasanderson9621]

A stalemate? Um....Are we talking about the same conflict here? Smh...One of the saddest things to me about this conflict, and it's coverage, has been the unveiling or tearing away of ANY sense of objectivity from some of my favorite analysts/content creators. This unfortunately includes Cut the Clutter, as well as Caspian Report, for example. I just don't get it, if you really think Ukraine is winning then you are not paying attention whatsoever. Look, I've always known that Shankar has bought all the way into western propaganda, and that he holds very anti-Russian views and opinions(contrary to his own government, by the way) but you have to willingly ignore facts on the ground and drink deep of the Ukrainian and western Kool-aid to believe Ukraine is any where near what could be called "winning", Hell, it would be a debate to even say that the Ukrainians are holding there own. Smh, and now he's talking about the Ukrainian airforce!!?? What Air force? You mean the ghost of Kiev? Lol!!! The Russians have and have had, near complete dominance and superiority over the skies of Ukraine, and have demonstrated their ability to strike anywhere and anytime throughout the entirety of the Ukraine. Evidenced by the strike on the barracks at Desna, which was a surgical hands-off strike, meant to demoralize(by the death of some 200 soldiers) rather than completely flatten and destroy the barracks. I know the fact that Ukraine is full of Nazis has somehow become A-Ok to the west, and not a problem at all, but the Russians take that aspect of this conflict very seriously. You can see this by the fact that where it is known to be mainly or exclusively these nazi battalions at a particular location, the Russians will attack said position with no restraint, however the positions held by the real Ukrainan Army are generally attacked with as minimal fire power needed to complete the objective. Anyway, warped views and opinions like Mr. Guptas show that without doubt Ukraine is winning the propaganda war, but while they carry the trophy and accolades for this, along with the manufactured glory from all these fake "offensives" and the "retaking" of towns that were never taken in the first place, while this is going on they are slowly but surely going to lose their entire country. And folks like Cut the Clutter, with their wholesale swallowing of the Ukrainian/western narrative, and more importantly, it's promotion and dissemination, are only contributing to the destruction of Ukraine, and the continuing slaughter of it's people, both military and civilian alike. If you really cared about the Ukraine, you would be telling the truth in your videos.

[@dhruvsethi1811]

This Shekhar is a fool. Mariupol has already been liberated, so has Kherson, Popasnaya. Donbas will be taken. Crimea already belongs to Russia, soon Odessa will follow.

[@anshulv6]

Pls don't compare Ukraine war with Iraq or Afghanistan war, This is Europe, Ukraine is getting help from other countries, similar to Vietnam, during war she got help from china. If y compare with it Russia played way better in terms of both global approval and millitary damage. Please just don't consider war will be same as those with Iraq , This video is entirely baseless Also Russia will never get complete isolation

[@maanvol]

Who was to tell that the US, on its own, would pump into Russia's animosity a bopping 54 billon $, and still counting; not to talk about other imbecile countries -- which like some Russia bashing!

[@Shashank-eh7yy]

Should talk about Azov Regiment and neo-nazis in Ukraine and Stepan Bandera. This gives Russian perspective. What we are seeing now is mostly western US led propaganda

[@amitbhartari2392]

Russia is winning the war slowly, Zelensky does not has foresight, he could have opted Finlandization of Ukraine and avoided the horrible loss of life. True Russian weakness has been exposed, but Zelensky is being micromanaged by Pentagon, who want make Russian suffer , Ukrainian lives are secondary to them. This episode admiring Ukraine will miss the forest by focusing on trees. You did similarly in predicting 2014 election results in India, Washington posts and other westerners dint saw Afghanistan collapse coming, they are not the final word on anything.

[@bulthaosen1169]

I don't think it's redefining anything. If anything it's just reinforcing what we already knew.

[@rj6404]

This should have the Indians worried , all their weaponry , at least 70% r from ruse or piece of crap , forget about the fighter jets , even a stinger can nail it , the radars redundant , the s-300-400 -500 duds , t-72 , 80 , 90 r targets to practice for javelins .. kya socha aur kya nikla .

[@jamiemyee4336]

Indian Republican TV Arnab was insulted western. He was very confidently says wow Russian were taking over with in one week..

[@vikrammudholkar6854]

Would love a CTC on how the nature of warfare itself has changed between a large sophisticated military aggressor vs a small/insignificant (compared to the aggressor) defending military… the reason for this stems from this CTC… while Ukraine has nearly gotten a stalemate, it’s no different than what Afghanistan did against erstwhile USSR & USA or Iraq did against USA or Vietnam did against USA… hasn’t conventional warfare not provided a clear victory to the aggressor since WW2? Ukraine is fighting in the streets, so did the Iraq military which was presumed to be disbanded… Ukraine has better perception than Iraq and Afghanistan but they too stalemated the oppressor without the heavy intelligence and firepower support that Ukraines getting

[@js11238]

I think your explanation of David Goliath reversed.

[@subhamsharma8043]

super power US could not defeat Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years

[@crusoerob8550]

Russian are facing problems of their own making in Ukraine, Very poor planning and they behaved almost apoliogetically fighting in Ukraine, They should have thrown everything in the beginning, wiping out strategic sites and ports right in the beginning with airpower, Long before the west recovered from their initial inertia and started using their crooked brains and weapons, Russia needed a Marshal Zukov, Very bad battle management, This will let the cat out of the bag about Russian defence forces and equipment, Catastrophic for Russia,

[@lifeschool6255]

Any aspiring superpower should learn from Russia that you cannot annex a country and get away with it so easily. You might be bleeding to death. So beware India with your neighbors and do not threaten them in various manners..

[@shalendraraghav407]

Tanks are like elephants after introduction artillery during middle ages

[@imtiazahmed6445]

What about Israel warfare going with Palestine since more than 70 years, why don't you show that first,

[@carltoncaulker1341]

Sometimes your efforts to allign with Western ideology is senseless. After some of your brilliant utterances. A thought from Africa.

[@sundarindia7867]

Ur thinking that way becoz the west media is showing that way . Remember sadam hussian Iran ,Iraq Who won their ? How is it now ?

[@sbiswas2886]

When you fight for a noble cause.... like defending your motherland.... it is extremely hard, if not impossible, to defeat you.

[@shreej9216]

War & associated planning is going to change going forward after this war. armies worldwide and watching and will be learning lessons from this war. I'm hoping this teaches countries to not go to war knowing that they will win it on paper. What a great comeback kid, Ukraine has proven to be.

[@AK-xd6uu]

Picture abhi baki hai, those who are talking about poor quality of Russian equipment, equipment don’t fight, it is the person behind the machine does, now the person or equipment isn’t sufficient to a battle you need strategy and good logistic maintenance.

[@sharujoseph]

Is a weakening Russia helping China become stronger 🤔

[@shanandabrannigan2576]

Grandpa you are misreading the whole situation I believe and you seemingly dont understand the russian way of war

[@kshen7485]

India did almost same as Russia, it spent so much precious Rupee to buy foreign garbage weapons, instead of investing to its own industrialization and eliminating the slums everywhere in India.

[@jamiemyee4336]

Look Russian army and war strategies no good. It's shame for Russia. Well Indian must run from it.

[@narindernathsharma5799]

Someone from 'The Print' has to tie up Shekhar Gupta's hands to restrain him from his hand dancing.

[@nithinkrish]

There is lot happening around Kerala K-Rail project, could you please do cute the clutter or any format of coverage from print,

[@MdKhan-rs7es]

India china war will be legendary because both use russian origin weapons..

[@aruneshdogra2659]

For a journo, waving our arms in the air and paraphrasing the key points of a Russian with the camera on you is not good camera hygiene. Get some interns who can challenge your loquacious approach.

[@dimplekhanna5456]

David brought down Goliath - as I remember it !

[@dineshramu2870]

Again a highly informative and insightful CTC. Thanks Shekharji. Just wonder if at 21' the analogy of David and Goliath seemed to unintentionally refer to Ukraine as Goliath instead of David. Excuse if I heard it wrong.

[@sameerthakur2626]

Yr right. I heard it too and was confused. Specifically scrolled comments to see if anyone else caught it

[@sureshkaran]

The US said they'll win Iraq in days but it took months.