Tactical Lessons: Ukraine War feat. Col. Reisner

In this video Dr. Col. Reisner of the Austrian Armed Forces talks about the tactical lessons learned from Ukraine. We take about the 4 factors, the transparent battlefield, WW1, WW2 and how to deal with counter-mobility.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 4 Factors
02:41 Transparent Battlefield
04:36 World War 1
05:06 Ukrainian Offensives Fall 2022 vs. Summer 2023
05:42 War of Attrition
06:50 How to deal with Counter-Mobility
09:14 Evolution or Revolution
#lessonslearned #ukrainewar #tactics #tacticallesson #bundesheer

[@Hennue]

Just wanted to say thank you that the video is in english so that us germans can also understand it.

[@genericpersonx333]

I can't decide if that is a joke about Austrians speaking a different German than Germany or a joke about ethnic Germans using barbaric British-speak instead of superior Deutsch. Either way, good joke!

[@Hennue]

@@genericpersonx333 It's the former. The austrians have lovely dialects that are sometimes hard to understand for many germans.

[@caniconcananas7687]

@@Hennue Ha! Just imagine many of your countrymen speaking a language not even in the Indo-European family. Basque language is so different that not even all the Basque persons speak it. It's so unique that the US Army (or Marine Corps, don't remember) used Basque soldiers as radio operators to add a further layer of difficulty to the Japanese decoders. Austrian dialects might be a prize compared to Basque.

[@genericpersonx333]

@@Hennue Haha! I knew it! I love how dialects can make life "interesting" for people in ways they never expected. My Father was an American engineer who wanted to learn German as a teenager so he could read German scientific papers. He found an excellent "German teacher from Germany who spoke German." Dad soon spoke "perfect German" with a "perfect accent." Fast-forward a few years: Vater is invited to a German university to do lectures on engineering in Muenchen. He has a great time, especially in the beer halls after lectures. All the "Germans" congratulate him on his superb German and accent. Well, on his way home, Dad has to go through a northern German city and wait a time there. As he is waiting, he speaks his "perfect German with perfect accent" to the locals and they immediately start mocking and insulting him for being a loser from Bayern who can't speak right! Apparently, Dad's "German-language teacher born in Germany" was actually a Bavarian born in Bavaria who taught perfect Bavarian, and so Dad's "perfect German" was actually "perfect Bavarian."

[@moritamikamikara3879]

@@caniconcananas7687 I recall that Americans used Navajo as radiomen in WW2, but maybe they've switched to Basque in case the Ruskies caught on in the meantime.

[@hasmatiks]

I'm on another tab and I can still feel him looking at me

[@hartip5106]

😂

[@balaklava6420]

That is an intense stare 👀

[@SenorTucano]

He needs a monocle 🧐

[@Bayomeer]

He is judging you because you parked your car in front of your house instead of inside the garage, thereby making it easy for the enemy to hit you with FPV drones and guided artillery.

[@Charlemagne_III]

Colonel Reisner has been very generous with his English-language content a great resource in understanding the war. Thanks for interviewing him!

[@slim5782]

The man; the legend; Col. Markus Reisner!

[@LordJuan4]

no longer a myth! /s

[@Tom-uk2ow]

Haha what war he is participated???He dont know where is his ass and where he is his head..

[@WillOfPeter]

German legends? The last ones are in WW2. Today turkland... sorry i mean germanistan... sorry again. Pathetic.

[@lp3880]

legendary false , yes!

[@allecarlo]

🤣🤣🤣

[@wehosrmthink7510]

I’ve been watching Col. Reisner’s KZbin channel videos since the Ukraine war began . They are outstanding, no nonsense, from a professional and rigorously nonpartisan perspective.

[@doniehurley9396]

rigorously nonpartisan perspective with a strong bias towards Ukrainen Victory Reply

[@angrydoggy9170]

@@doniehurley9396Like any normal human being, he wants Ukraine to overcome the Russian aggression. Beyond that, he does report and analyses the situation from a logical, fact based perspective.

[@cmanlovespancakes]

Actually he has been pretty realistic on Ukraine's capabilities. He doesn't overinflate them like so many other military analysis does that paint a false picture of the war.

[@off6848]

@@cmanlovespancakesand he’s either to dumb or to brainwashed to see the glaring problem of major industry being gutted in the west. Any talk about going against Russia is hot air until they dare to look inward

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@@doniehurley9396 You people shilled his videos when it was 2022 and he was mentioning all the possible encirclements that never ended up materializing.

[@TheLocomotionFan]

The Cross-over we all hoped for!

[@mensch1066]

I think that Col. Reisner is correct about current changes being revolutionary rather than evolutionary. When you see what aerial and naval drones are capable of, you see just how vulnerable multi-million (or in the case of capital ships multi-billion) dollar weapons systems are to asymmetric threats. All the jokes people made about the US military being beaten by "men in sandals with Kalashnikovs" are now being amplified on conventional battlefields as well. This isn't yet an issue at a strategic or geostrategic level (you can't win a nuclear war or Battle of Midway 2.0 with these new assets likes drones or robots), but it is having a huge effect operationally and tactically. Ukraine had major successes in 2022 using drones, and Russia's seemingly slow advance in Khakiv Oblast recently obscures how many Ukrainian artillery assets Lancet drones are taking out quite a few kilometers from the main line of resistance.

[@freedomordeath89]

until lasers AD and EW catches up with drone comms and makes it impossible to communicate with the drone remotely thus making 99% of small drones worthless..

[@mensch1066]

@@freedomordeath89 Yes, but that would still be part of the revolution, even if it did negate drones in many situations as tanks and combined arms negated trenches in many 1918 situations.

[@maduyn]

Ironically multi-million dollar systems are likely needed to counter this new development with C-UAS systems needing to be advanced radar, sensor, and targeting wise and have potentially budget breaking technology like directed energy installed in order to bring the attrition rate to a reasonable level. We will most likely see high value weapons used to break these C-UAS systems so that the cheap drones can exploit the permissive air environment.

[@k53847]

@@freedomordeath89 EW systems able to jam well designed communications systems are probably quite powerful emitters. Which you can home in on with standoff weapons that don't require communications. AD system that have radars are also detectable and RDFable, so the enemy knows exactly where your high value targets are without any drones.

[@Betz23K]

i do fear drones being used by non-miltary miltant "groups" - the vulnerability of civilian infrastructure may be/become not controllable + the "elites" may be exposed to this threats ... as ordinary collateral-damage-humans

[@LordJuan4]

Amazing having Col. Reisner on, love his presentations

[@whya2ndaccount]

Sorry, but before this I'd never heard of him.

[@thedynamiter453]

@@whya2ndaccount Hes regulary doing(or did) videos on the austrian army channel "Österreichs Bundesheer".

[@whya2ndaccount]

@@thedynamiter453 Ah thanks.

[@tavish4699]

@@whya2ndaccount hes constantly on the german and austriian news giving us realstic pictures of the war hes about the only guy who actually talks about ukraines failiures and where russia has made progress no propaganda just straight up military facts

[@whya2ndaccount]

@@tavish4699 Being an Australian (extra syllable) that explains it.

[@jessealexander2695]

Very interesting, thanks for that.

[@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@onetwo5155]

I'm very glad to see Col. Reisner with you; his English presentations are always very interesting and I appreciate both him for making them and you for all your efforts.

[@caniconcananas7687]

Two of the most informative Austrian persons in the same video?! Thanks a lot.

[@Corvusdotensis]

I thought he was German!

[@marcm.]

I remember watching Col Reisner every time he put up a video during the last few years. And I was actually wondering why I hadn't seen something recently. It's nice to see this collaboration, your interview of him. I respect this man and his analysis greatly, I hope to see more videos from him again. Thanks for this

[@2i0ber]

Col Reisner! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@eugenvonsurschnitzler9588]

Danke an Sie beide für dieses gemeinsame Video - eine einzigartige Kooperation - bin ein Fan von Ihnen beiden - würde mich sehr über eine Fortsetzung freuen

[@zemog1025]

Big difference listening to an actual Military Intel Analyst rather than the typical KZbin amateur.

[@V4zz33]

Watch the ex US intelligence officers on Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom.

[@nvelsen1975]

@@V4zz33 Looks like a Russian show to me. They platform the putin-worshipper John Mearsheimer, an evil marxist who worked for the KGB in the 1980s and then couldn't back out.

[@rosomak8244]

Actually, the most amazing thing is that most of those "experts" are not at all better in judgement compared to the amateurs. It's like pandemia again.

[@pilferedserenity1570]

Most people will believe something said confidently and presented well as long as it sounds about right. You get many midwits chasing the algorithim, that had channels covering all kinds of things moving to cover this war. I once clicked a video from a multi-million view channel, I left after hearing France surrendered in WW1, but had several hundred battleships at the end of the Cold War.

[@multipolar666]

@@rosomak8244 agree, the difference is surprisingly small, if you choose the right ones. At least if you zoom out on the more strategic "general" level.

[@aleksir.8380]

Very nice collab!

[@user-xl8pc4rh2h]

Thanks for taking the time to present this in English. It's very hard to get such a professional and unbiased analysis of what is going on in the mainstream English speaking media.

[@VisciousPhishes]

Fantastic, thanks! I have been following you for a while now Bernard and it is great to see you in a position to interview/collab with some of these great sources/creators.

[@crouchinghamster6407]

FN incredible interview! Thank you, both!

[@user-lj3ev1uo6x]

Congrats for the Interview! One the best guests so far!

[@vishmonster]

Fantasic, one of the very few sources I trust for information about that conflict.

[@martincotterill823]

I've been looking forward to this combination, great interview!

[@thomasnihil4878]

Fantastic content, as always. Thanks for sharing with us. Danke!

[@roadrunner6224]

Als ich Thumbnail gesehen habe hab ich mich gefragt was der Reisner denn da mit Marsalek macht.

[@Pvt.Conscriptovich]

Great guest, thank you Bernard.

[@NotthatDudeM]

Thx allot to both of you 🙏

[@crafty_android]

Great interview thanks

[@bas_6983]

Oh wow, I never expected you two to team up! Amazing! thanks!

[@bikenavbm1229]

no spin just the way it is as much as he is able to tell us. I bet he is pretty busy at his day job too. thank you Colonel.

[@YouBroger]

Very interesting interview. Thanks

[@gorbalsboy]

Quite a scoop. Getting this chap,well done sir,no staging was something we did in the eighties instead we did infiltration,which involved moving into the forward edge of the battle area as platoons on foot from at least 15 miles away rather than larger formations in vehicles (battle taxis)we would then occupy patrol harbours and from there begin recce,s and fighting patrols mission command tactics were essential for this,which the Russians do not do(I doubt the Ukrainians do either)great vid,all the best from sunny troon 😊

[@kristijangrgic9841]

Well actualy that is very much what they are doing. Russians even use now bikes ans golf carts to close distance quickly because you get spotted by drones which are armed plus drones allert command centers so even in minutes artillery strikes are possible. This is why now advance is easier trough urban enviroment while attack in open field is almost impossible.

[@rider6500]

Good luck trying to march 15 miles undefr today's conditions. That much time in the open will almost guarantee something spots you and you come under fire.

[@vng75]

Very insightful. Thanks

[@ghostmourn]

I really look forward to these videos.

[@SubwayStreetvendorblocki-hn1wy]

Excellent

[@MyNoodlesAreCold]

Excellent video

[@rsfaeges5298]

Excellent video!

[@reloads223]

Thank you so much, great report!

[@davidschlageter5962]

Cool presentation

[@charlesw4789]

excellent, informative video, thank you.

[@Tigerdad03]

Excellent thank you!

[@gkochanowsky]

Thank you for your concise summary of the situation and the ramifications for the future. It should concern us all, not just the military.

[@giuseppedanieli7878]

Professional and clear

[@AllWorshipIs4TheMostHigh]

Outstanding breakdown. Thank you for this.

[@callmepaddy]

I just saw the thumbnail an was like "No way! The two legends in one video! This is gonna be fire!

[@ineffige]

many thanks! this is best channel in that topic.

[@anselmdanker9519]

Thank you for your insights 😊

[@klaustremetsberger1101]

Extrem starkes Vid! Grandios!

[@Querulously]

More Ukraine content please Good to have a reliable channel analysis as do many are questionable thanks

[@MultiChris777]

Great idea for a video. Interesting

[@MyDogmatix]

Love both of these guys!!!❤❤

[@Chiller11]

Interesting episode.

[@BlueGoose264]

I think, Col. Reisner, is near spot on here. A great analysis.

[@Nethanieal]

Thanks for this Informative news on the war. Col Reisner dose the best job at explaining issues on the battlefield . I always look forward to hearing his analysis. Thanks for another great presentation in english.

[@Hatmanul]

Schön, euch im selben Video zu sehen !

[@jeanclaudiogutierrezmarin4523]

One the best analysis of the evolution of warfare during the russo-ukraine war. Yet Col. Reisner is one of the few to publicly say the obvious, the Kherson Victory was a arrangement, I'm not saying that Ukraine was unable to win, eventually it could win that battle. But the particular series of steps that unfolded on 2022 were part of a bigger negotiated arrangement.

[@cmanlovespancakes]

The colonel has been pretty realistic about Ukraine's abilities in his previous analysis he posts on youtube. He doesn't overinflate their capabilities and gives real expectations without all the propaganda. He is refreshing to listen too compared to so many paid military experts that just repeat what they are rold to say.

[@juhopuhakka2351]

It is very annoying to watch this "game changer ghost of kiev" hype propaganda even if it is alligned whit my own bias. That is basicly "the news" here in Finland.

[@Veteran-Nurse]

Good briefing

[@dragoscc1163]

Wow! This is a special episode!

[@fschickhaus]

Exzellente Analyse wie immer auch für militärische Laien verständlich.

[@PhilippVonVangerow]

Gratulation an Bernhard Kast zu diesem Interviewpartner.

[@williambrooks6629]

Thank you for the video. World war 1 and stormtroopers were mentioned. Real success on the Allied side was achieved by Australian General John Monash. A civil engineer in civilian life, who perfected attacks using troops supported by a creeping barrage and air support for strafing and resupply. Monash timed his battles to the minute and made a major contribution to Allied success. Monash was victimised by certain people on account of his German/Jewish ancestry but his memory is held in high esteem in Australia.

[@alispeed5095]

Its fresh seeing a military official acknowledge that the counter offensive failed or that it even ended at all. Kuddos.

[@walthanas]

More cooperation videos with Dr.Col.Reisner, please, Bernhard! Dr.Col.Reisner has already put several extremely informative videos about recent developments and the war in Ukraine up in the past, and I think that the two of you give a refreshing insight into the developments in both modern warfare and the current war in Ukraine.

[@pyeitme508]

WOW COOL!

[@Andrewskji]

Very informative, not clouded by hate speech

[@michelangelo130861]

Reisner is the best 👍

[@3isr3g3n]

Wow! Das ist mal hochkalibriger Content! (Pun intended)

[@larsglade3304]

Tak!

[@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized]

Thanks!

[@hbecker123]

Markus Reisner is the best german speaking expert to explain the war situation in my opinion. Realistic, without tactical "propaganda" speaking like other NATO or TV experts.

[@jonathanjacob5453]

It’s alway the unnoticed propaganda that gets you the worst.

[@patrick-hill-3000]

Compared to other German/Austrian soldiers he speaks English very fluently. I am impressed. Content also top. But nothing less expected.

[@kell7195]

I was amazed to discover that English is actually considered a Western German dialect 😳

[@billbrockman779]

I miss the Colonel’s videos, which have become quite rare.

[@Corvusdotensis]

I guess someone started to get angry with his analytics and asked him to chill.

[@TheFeldhamster]

​@@Corvusdotensishe took on more responsibilities in our Army which leaves him less time. And he's also now a regular guest on German mainstream TV! If you google his name, you should find those, you could use auto translate if you don't speak German. I guess he figures that since he's now regularly on TV which is also uploaded to YT, why do his own uploads (where he would say the same things) when he's short on time anyway.

[@gilmangrundy8899]

This was an interesting discussion. Particularly the impact of drones on the battlefield is given a full and frank discussion from Col. Reisner. Col. Reisner mentions the St. Lo battle which was a break-through enabled by a heavy aerial bombardment: the same tactic was used at Caen (perhaps an even more heavy bombardment there) with a break-in but not a break-through. The parts need to all work together well, and often luck plays a role, so even once Ukraine has a strengthened air force it will take some time and luck for results to flow from that.

[@usun_politics1033]

Oh... My... God... Oh my God. OhMyGod. Omg! Excellent get for an interview!

[@ThatOneGuy-mn6dv]

I would love to see Col. Reisner, Military Summery, Willy OAM, Defense Politics Asia, the Chieftain and Wild Siberia get together and talk together just have a chat on this topic bringing in their military time and different views and how they view something and just go at it together.

[@vonzitzewitz5454]

Dreamteam! ❤

[@surferdess494]

ohhh wow...i miss Col Reisner. Österreichs Bundesheer channel is not the same since he transferred. бажаю здоров'я Полковник 🇵🇷🇺🇦 Свободу Керчі, pal carajo el puente

[@Herdatec]

He is online on multiple other channels (N-TV Nachrichten for example), but usually in german

[@surferdess494]

@@Herdatec Thank you...i'll chk them out. vielen dank

[@sue_downing555]

that was great, glad I caught this short vid. yes we can expect surprises in the ongoing and coming wars. History is being written in several places as new wars develop or continue and escalate to bigger and Badder. Will this all lead to some nuke weaps getting used? Will they let the Gennie out of the bottle.

[@lowellaguno]

Thanks for an informative video with Colonel Reisner. I've watched him as a guest on KZbin channels such as "zdfheute" as well as "Österreichs Bundesheer." Grüße aus Südkalifornien!

[@anotherbacklog]

Finally an update from colonel but in an unexpected place War at the end boils down to numbers. We will probably see fleets of drones fighting drones very soon. Conventional assets will be more tactically important than before, perhaps protected by its own swarm of drones from a drone carrier vehicle. There’s gonna be a new micro-tactical plain of drone operation, perhaps each frontline soldier will commander his own drone fleet. Eventually the drones can be even 3D printed and assembled at the frontline according to changing needs. And we end up with Total Annihilation!

[@johannes8270]

Step one: Be surrounded by friendly countries. Step two: Declare yourself Neutral. Step three: Profit. Not hating, thats just smart.

[@thiefsleef6752]

Until you go to hell

[@johannes8270]

​@@thiefsleef6752Well that escalated quickly....

[@LordJuan4]

@@johannes8270 for real lmao

[@genericpersonx333]

Issue is that your friend today can be your enemy tomorrow, and for reasons that don't have to make any sense except to the people who are making the decisions. Germany was actually very friendly to Belgium in 1914, with cultural, economic, and even military connections. It didn't stop the German Army from determining that operational convenience in a war with France was more important than preserving the good relations between Germany and Belgium. End result: Germans occupy 90% of the country for several years.

[@DirkusTurkess]

@@genericpersonx333 So you're saying Switzerland should per-emtively attack its neighbours? I like it.

[@sevenproxies4255]

Colonel AND Doctor? He can pretty much pull rank on anyone! 😄

[@mikeq7134]

The drones have created a static battlefield, in which neither side can safely assemble the forces needed for offense. Basically, where the front settles, there will be the line of the peace settlement.

[@residentgeardo]

Col. Reisner has always put out very good analysis of this conflict so far. Great to see him on this channel!

[@bartoszwalega9818]

Autonomous drones hunting other drones. You need to gain an advantage in this area to be able to think about winning.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

Hey it's the guy that's on the news constantly.

[@micumatrix]

Not so bad if You don’t need to travel too far this time for an interesting talk ;) We really live today in dangerously dynamic times in every point of view. And many people are now aware of it, but choose to ignore it…

[@norbertblackrain2379]

Congratulations. this proves the quality of this channel. Col Reisner is as far as i know choosing very well to whom he talks!

[@anders3322]

I just love the Austrian dialect!😂❤ It sounds as if a person from the Netherlands is speaking in german and saying to a German person; “you saund like theis when du are speeeking”.😊

[@MikeBenko]

Dr. Colonel Reisner. Doctor of Coloneling.

[@vivaprez]

would be amazing to go dinner & a few drinks with these two🍻

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Bernhard, nice work getting fellow Austrian Oberst Eisner. Excellent.

[@richierich7609]

I'd like to know what wristwatch Col Reisner is wearing.

[@romantoppel2330]

Colonel Reiser is great! I always enjoy his analyses - and not to forget his book on the Battle of Vienna in 1945. Excellent! 👍

[@ronrolle7610]

Hier noch eine wichtige taktische Erkenntnis: Wenn sich zwei Personen unterhalten und sich nicht anschauen, sondern jeder für sich in die Kamera kuckt, müssen wir uns nicht wundern, wenn auch dieser Krieg an der Informationsfront verloren geht :-)

[@Corvusdotensis]

COME ON!!!! You brought Colonel Doctor Markus Reisner to your channel! You are a legend!

[@ryankolbe365]

Col. Dr. sounds like somebody who can literally do whatever he wants but he just loves the life

[@gregc8567]

I'd say we are truly seeing Military History Visualizad.

[@ra8185]

Very good video. Personally, I find this topic very interesting. I also follow Colonel Reisner on KZbin and I like his videos. My question regarding drones is, can they be disrupted with jamming? Additionally, I find it unfortunate that the debate on combat drones is still being avoided in Germany, as I believe they will become an indispensable tool in future conflicts."

[@andreasmai9265]

Super, danke Herr General Reisner für Ihre Informationen an die interessierte Online Community 👍. Es wäre grandios und bestimmt sehr aufschlussreich wenn Sie eines Tages ein Interview mit dem größten regelmäßig auf KZbin auftretenden deutschsprachigen Ukrainekriegsberichterstatter Torsten Heinrich führen könnten.

[@GrumpySam_AUT]

Dr. Reisner ist "nur" Oberst des Generalstabsdienstes. Derzeit.

[@leggett997]

Anyone know what Camo is he wearing, looks great :0

[@GRX278]

New camo of the austrian military