Dr. Phillip Karber Explains Russian Operations in Ukraine

Dr. Phillip Karber, president of the Potomac Foundation, speaks at West Point about Russian operations in Ukraine, highlighting observations based on many trips to the war's front lines. He discusses new Russian tactics and the trends that define the operating environment.

[@renovatio1257]

The volume quality will improve at 3:08.

[@WeShineno]

Thanks, I was about to exit at 1:10

[@leefowble]

The USMC wouldn't have that problem.

[@agh.abolfazl204]

thanks

[@renovatio1257]

Thank you Dr. Karber.

[@_Matsimus_]

Interesting

[@WollongongWacko]

Fancy seeing you here

[@SurG30n]

Welcome in right place :E

[@Colinpark]

This brings back memories of the Cold War, but with extra spicy sauce. Soviet Artillery loomed large on our minds back then, particularly as the 105 C1-C2 had a 11km range.

[@eliseomustafa9980]

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[@haroldnickolas4638]

@Eliseo Mustafa Instablaster =)

[@silviozag]

Interesting information, just one info for future presentation TOS-1A , not TOR . ( not a big deal, but this weapon system is important part of presentation )

[@world-traveler880]

Great informative video!

[@powdermonkey7697]

Great watch.

[@hartleyransom-leland5872]

This is arguably the best discussion of Russian involvement in Donbass on the internet although I would advise people to remember that not just understanding that the Russians were involved in Donbass and the way they were involved is important but also the scale, timeline and nature of that involvement. Most of the forces fighting were still actual rebels or Russian civilian volunteers. Can't say anything in this talk is necessarily incorrect though

[@Komnenos1234]

There's a good book on the conflict called "Frontline Ukraine" by Richard Sakwa. Likewise I can't personally confirm its accuracy, but it tells a story more sympathetic to the Russian side.

[@bestintentions6089]

What is involvement of neocons in ukraine then?

[@andrerothweiler9191]

48:30 until the last man, that really hit hard :(

[@world-traveler880]

Anybody got a link to the slides?

[@NaveDelAmor]

Audio poor first few monutes

[@struanmcgrath1619]

Came here to recap, 2022

[@goldsmithedelman8803]

If they were so good why did they screw up so much?

[@feppur]

A truly eye opener...

[@lamptown3748]

Bump in 2022

[@lkvideos7181]

0:57 RIP headphone users.

[@Bajaos]

dobrze że mamy dobrze wyszokoloną amie i dobrego ministra obrony narodowej.... TAK NAPRAWDE TO NIE !!!!

[@yuwolfuswithout-any-bosssh2420]

Czesc Polakom od Ukrainca!

[@ArtemKondratev]

51:06 So... 2020 it is?

[@shawnm2113]

They had to wait until have the plandemic.

[@fern8580]

1) send humanitarian aid (in fact, it is an analysis before attack) 2) send Russian soldiers masked, armed, paid. (Military profile: 60% of those who will be "in danger" will not be orthodox Russian with blue eyes ...) 3) No high technology, little aviation, no drones, just city by city setting up, under threat, the right Municipal team.

[@petrolekh]

terrible camera work.

[@rkbrkb2975]

Sound quality sent me packing four minutes in. Ridiculous.

[@rednovember2205]

Fixes itself right after 4 minutes lol

[@MD-xl9df]

11:15

[@miecz23]

So if Russia was doing so well in 2014 why they are not moving forward in 2022?

[@paulz.257]

Because in 2014 Ukraine had only about 8-16k combat ready troops. In 2022, before the invasion they had active personnel of about 200k + 60k (if I am not mistaken) of National guards + Territorial Defense + volunteer battalions; and many of these folks been training in combat since 2014 while most of the troops in Russia which only used a minor % of its forces in Donbass before were not adequately trained or armed. Yes they had and still have few elite Spetznas units; airborne troops; but majority of the army is ill equipped and barely trained. In Ukraine they literally sometimes sent conscripts who never before fired a gun.

[@Johntb100]

Volume sucks.

[@sinisabroceta1]

Great Rossia!

[@kunik61]

The only things Russia can do well is killing, stealing and enslaving.

[@gvindolin6206]

11:15 :D

[@williamcain7773]

21:30 destruction of two Ukrainian battalions.

[@vg60828]

This presentation is obviously way over the heads of the cadets, better suited either for a CPT career course or CGSC setting. Question #1 is proof the cadets have no understanding of war and just need to be briefed on SHARP, EO, and do gender sensitivity training. Not shitting on them, they only know what they know and West Point is there to train tactical level leaders.

[@saxet812004]

lol you were watching the wrong lecture, maybe a CSIS forum hahahaha

[@whyukraine]

Terrible audio.

[@brobsonmontey]

Question: How does Russia pay for all this capability, when their GDP is only marginally larger than Australia's (and smaller than Canada, Italy, France, India, etc)?

[@deltadromeuss]

A country's GDP isn't an ideal parameter when it comes to evaluating military strenght. The Russians don't have a large economy, sure, but it doesn't necessarily make them weak. A number of factors must be considered, such as: -their weaponry (tanks, missiles, etc..) tends to be cheap, or at least cheaper than their Western counterparts, to build and maintain; -the Russian Army inherited a lot of conventional weapons from the Soviet Union, and they keep using them (e.g. the T-64 tanks that they supplied to the rebels, which were taken from Soviet-era depots); -since the war is literally on Russia's border, they don't have to spend much money for moving weapons and vehicles in Eastern Ukraine. Just a few examples.

[@luciusartorius3437]

How is the amount of dollars a person pays for a burger in his country is a valid metric for a military industrial complex? Russia can build 10 tanks for the price Australia can build 1. GDP has been an irrelevant metric for quite a while.

[@bestintentions6089]

Valid question which points to the fact that msm treats their consumers like mushrooms. Keeping them in the dark and feeding them shite

[@wetbricksBEATS]

Buddy, Real russian physical economy is number 3 in the world. Russia produces as much steel and aluminium as the usa, and more ships, and more ammo than nato combined.

[@b.d.shandor8878]

Dr. Karber deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because it is only through his efforts that the Russians will allow peace in Ukraine.

[@shawnm2113]

This comment didn’t age well

[@grabol1982]

I dont know about british but polish army have a little bimore that number of equipment that he tell about...

[@ksztyrix]

I really regret I didn't go fight hohols in 2015 :(

[@al465]

Все это ерунда,..."Авнгард","Кинжал"-сверхзвуковые боеприпасы.И ракеты с ядерной силовой установкой боятся нужно.Когда был выброс рутения над Северной Европой-это было перове неудачное испытание ракеты "Буревестник".Теперь она летает,используя ядерную силовую установку,но больше НЕ СЛЕДИТ радиоактивными выбросами рутения и т.д.

[@sator666666]

Attention! Russian trolls here.

[@al465]

Artur Czekalski Еще бы!!! Тут,как тут.Мы везде,и имя нам легион.

[@TocTeplv]

Orange man bad?

[@bambam144]

really interesting speech thx and respect to the russians.

[@ivicarepic3427]

Wery intheresting, but in many ways flawed in conclusion! Donbass rebels are not a Russian army!

[@genilag4679]

I have relatives there and its nothing like the stories this guy says, my goodness. Poor civilians suffer so much because of Poroshenko and his lies.

[@robinbreeds9217]

Old Soviet Law was used to kill Ukrainian's bodies were exhumed from a burial site in Sloviansk all of whom are to been killed by pro-Russia forces, Women Children Old people all suffer. Russia-backed forces moved the boundary fence between Russian-occupied South Ossetia and Georgia placing more Georgian territory under Russian control. Georgians refer to this as the creeping occupation people go missing farmers just normal hard working people walking with animals then have to pay Russian back forces to be let go. I know people there and its nothing like the Russia lie's as well as Western Media in Fact calling people Nazi or Fascist for wanting to protect home land and Culture is being used by Western Media and Russian, being Patriotic is different to being Nationalist which is also not the same as Fascist or Racist as soon as i hear people use words like Fascist Racist i know they are brain washed fool's

[@kyleropp6634]

@Eugenia he's been there, this presentation is largely from firsthand experience.

[@kunik61]

I demand you to STOP support Russian war against Ukraine.

[@robinbreeds9217]

Ukraine or Kievan Rus is one of the oldest states in Europe. For example, in the 10th century Kiev was several times larger than Paris or London. Moscows Red Square is all of Kiyv riches stolen because of Yuri. Moscow took its history from Kievan Rus Volodymyr became Vladimir the Great Russia at time was Golden Horde. There was NOT the country named "Russia" until the czar Peter the 1st stole it from Kievan Rus together with its history in the early 18th century. It was only in the 12th century (!) when a Kievan prince Yury or Yuri the longarms, Ruthenian roots founded an outpost to the north among the foreign tribes and called it Moscow. Moscow gradually became the capital of a new country which for several hundred years bore the name of Muscovia. u-krane.com/ukraine-russia-bear-vs-crane/ "Under Yaroslav’s rule, (Kievan) Rus’ became a full-fledged member of the Christian community of nations. Later historians would call him the “father-in-law of Europe” because he married his sisters and daughters to European heads of state. His father’s acceptance of Christianity from Byzantium and the subsequent importation of cultural influences from Constantinople to Rus’ soil were important preconditions for that development. Unlike his father, Yaroslav was not wed to a Byzantine princess, but his son Vsevolod was-to a daughter of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachus. Yaroslav himself married a daughter of Olaf Eriksson, the king of Sweden-a reflection of the Viking origins of the dynasty. His daughter Yelyzaveta (Elizabeth) was the consort of Harald Hardrada, the king of Norway. His son Iziaslav married a sister of the Polish king Casimir, who was already married to one of Yaroslav’s sisters. Yaroslav’s daughter Anastasia became the spouse of Andrew the White of Hungary, and another daughter, Anna, married Henry I of France. Whatever the political reasons behind these marriages, in purely cultural terms they benefited the European rulers more than they did the princes of Kyiv. Anna’s case shows this best. Unlike her husband, Anna knew how to read and sign her name, an indication that the Kyivan chronicler’s praise of Yaroslav for his love of books and promotion of learning was hardly excessive. Anna wrote to her father that she found her new land (France) “a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly, and the customs revolting.” Paris under Henry I was clearly not Constantinople, but more importantly, in Anna’s eyes, it did not rank even with Kyiv." The aforementioned Queen Anna was the first Queen of France to serve as regent. There are several beautiful monuments to her in the current France where she is named as Anne de Kiev. 11th Century French queen Anna Yaroslavna, also known as Anne of Kiev Anna was the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise 'Father-in-law of Europe'. It was during his reign that the first code of laws was compiled in Kievan Rus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Kiev … Anne of Kiev ? i love the Cossack who had been fighting Ottomans, and Viking history they have. They were called the Varangians by the Greeks and Eastern Slavs. The Finns called them the Rus‘ which meant “men who row.” In 862 the Viking chieftain Rurik captured Kiev, a Slavic village on the Dnieper and made it his capital. When Byzantium fell in 1453, many of the ruling Byzantines fled to Kiev. There, they took over, converted the locals to Orthodox Christianity, and used Byzantium’s two-headed eagle [symbolizing the Western and Eastern Roman Empires] in their coat of arms. It was these folk who later moved their capitol to Moscow. Ukraine the Communist death count and how Holodomor was from Communism the Names of the Death Count . This is Histroy like the Treaty of Pereyaslav (1654) brought most of the Ukrainian Cossack state under Russian rule. Bohdan Khmelnytsky linked Ukraine/Russia 300 years ago because of the Lithuanian Commonwealth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising … Russia took Ukraine's History Kyivan Rus www.oldsaltblog.com/2014/03/the-vikings-the-rus-kiev-the-entangled-history-of-russia-and-ukraine/ … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great …

[@bo5457]

Robin, Your point about stealing Ukraine's history is exactly on point and accurate. One of the most basic of proofs is the fact that if you look at a gold or silver coin from the time of Volodymyr the Great or Yaroslaw the Wise, the coins have the image of the Prince on one side and the other side has the Ukrainian Trident symbol- the very same Trident Symbol which was the symbol of the state then and today. If these Princes were Russian why is there no two-headed eagle or star? Answer: because they were not Russian then and Ukrainians are not Russian now!

[@al465]

Robin Breeds This is the propaganda of a man from the Nazi battalion Azov.

[@al465]

Robin Breeds Everyone knows how many Ukrainians served in the Gestapo, killing Jews, Russians, and Ukrainians themselves. All the protection of death camps consisted of Ukrainians. In Kiev, in Babi Yar Ukrainians shot hundreds of thousands of Jews. And not only. Ukrainians can repent for their crimes against humanity.One of these sadists was recently issued to Germany-Yakov Paliy. He was just such a Nazi Ukrainian who now walks with torchlight processions around the European Kiev. Яков Палий,экстрадирован в Германию.www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-nazi-labor-camp-guard-jakiw-palij-removed-germany Я сначала думал,что это украинское правительство довело народ до предела дауншифтинга,но теперь понял,что украинцы просто слишком буквально воспринимали все,сказанное им из-за океана.И причина массового отказа от горячей воды и центрального отопления-Беар Гриллз. Все будет украина!!!

[@simplicius11]

There was no any Kievan Rus, that term was invented in the 19th century to describe a period. It was Rus, founded and ruled by the Russian Princes that came from the North and simply transferred their capital to Kiev. All of them clearly declared themselves as Russian princes in all available historical documents. And ethnicity of the Varyags(Varangians) is not clear to science. What we know from the primary sources is that they weren't Urmani (Normans), Svei ( Swedes), Angles...because they were clearly distinguished from them. What we know for certain is that they worshiped *Perun.* Khmelnytsky was also declaring himself as a Russian, protecting Russian name and Orthodox faith against the Poles. And he was signing himself as BoGdan. There was no any Ukraine or Ukrainians till the 20th century, the censuses are available. There was no any Ukrainians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire where all nationalities were free to express themselves, the Poles, Slovene, Croats, Serbs...all are there except poor Ukrainians.

[@TheDestruct0r]

Please do not be so gullible as to believe things you read on the interwebs, including my debunking of this pack of misinformation. Russia and Ukraine were one and the same, they were the same people who spoke the same language, Old Russian, which split into modern day Russian and Ukrainian. Historians do not agree on all the details of how Kiev and Rus born. But they do agree that Novgorod was the first Russian (Rus) capital. weather it was Rurik or his successor Oleg that took control of Kiev and moved the Rurik clan into it expanding his kingdom from Rus to Kievan Rus is still debated by historians. Using Robin Breed's logic, is it now the Ukrainians that first stole Russian history? The fact remaind that Rus was a kingdom of East Slavic people established and consolidated by the vikings clans that controlled the numerous rivers flowing through the land. Capitals move, dynasties change. Robin Breed forgot to mention that Kievan Rus stopped existing in the 13th century when it was conquered by the Golden Horde throwing the whole region into chaos. He also forgot to mention that descendants from Rurik's line ruled Russian until the 17th century. Most of the other shit he talks about is just guess work, conjecture and conspiracy theories.

[@danielbrown6112]

we could always make peace with Russia and work together diplomatically..... doesn't have to be war. we have many common interest and there is little reason for the American people and Russian people to be at odds.... one must wonder what our elected gov here in the US is doing constantly provoking wars and conflict, especially with Russia over the decades..... none of of voted for that continued action.... perhaps our democratic republic inner workings need closer civilian inspection due to the actions that very little of us support. people act like this conflict with Russia is enviable, lol that's such bs. we share a lot of values and we share Jesus. peace, peace peace.

[@whatisahandle_69]

Yes, peace with Russia while they destabilize their neighboring countries. Try to have some perspective on history. Every time they've invaded a country they followed the same process but with a new target and new weapons.

[@jamiebrown8435]

@@whatisahandle_69 every US accusation is a confession

[@bondaryura8855]

Рашка это монгольский улус, что у тебя с ним общего?

[@danielbrown6112]

@@bondaryura8855 humanity and soul..... connection to God above.

[@bondaryura8855]

@@danielbrown6112 наша задача отправить их к богу...

[@TocTeplv]

Chained to a wall for months? I call BS. Neli Shtepa is her name and why does dr. Karber tell us that story I dont know. US Propaganda? Ukrainian propaganda? Well.. it's your problem. The more fairytales you tell to your soldiers, the less you know about russians. And nuke treats? I loled. Man is a new kremlinologist - give him a medal

[@familyplan979]

TocTeplv this is how the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 creates the narratives for the military, expect nothing real, just sophistry.

[@shawnm2113]

Not much different than tanks plowing into and over civilian cars just yesterday…. huh? Propaganda? Nah, Russians are operating without laws or rules of engagement as we speak. All for US biolab control. Ukraine made their bed by lying with our current president in corruption. Hopefully America can keep its nose clean and not play big brother this time. I for one won’t be fighting this battle.

[@marko1902]

This guy is a romatic oldschool who still thinks tactics, strategy, battlefield victories, saving your soldiers and defeating your enemy is what men in power would honor him for. What a sucker! The only thing that really matters to them is how to pour another billion of taxpayer's dollars into their pockets. They couldn't care less about anything he considers important and that is the main reason why US army is deteriorating. The other one is that China and Russia don't steal money from their armies. But that's ok. The world has had really enough of US army for last 50 years.

[@whatisahandle_69]

Russia doesn't steal money from their armies? Care to revisit that statement?

[@joskojansa1235]

Wait... headline says Explanations of Russian operations. And you state at beginning, that you were all the time with Ukranian forces. Wow. What a freudian slip. I'll listen to this "jewel", just to see what bullshit gets sold to american audience... until I get bored too much.

[@ChrisRedfieldsbloodline]

Yeah this is all cool stuff and whatnot, but why does he sound like he's had 4-5 shots of vodka? Can you not give your lectures sober, or something? Nobody should have to listen to you stumble over your own words because you're such a hardcore drunk.

[@Community-Action]

War can do odd things to a man

[@CEDEFE41]

Dr. Karber is in his 70s and has seen hard use in service to his country. Your drive by, ad hominem, attack provides no information on the content provided here and reflects poorly on yourself.