They are doing everything they can to avoid saying “Russia is winning”

“Elastic defense” is one of the most common, run of the mill, bog standard, standard defense tactics known to man.

It’s probably taught on the first day of all officers schools worldwide, and on the first page of every tactics textbook.

I like how the article acts like it’s some ancient and never before seen tactical innovation lol

I look forward to the next couple months, when the NYT will be writing an article about the counteroffensive stalling out because nobody could have predicated how cold the winter would be.

Oh wow, who could have predicted that this would be the right way to do defense? Oh yeah, everyone with any knowledge of military history. We have been saying since last year that Russia was doing exactly this, and not just at the tactical level but on the larger strategic scale as well. We warned that Ukraine deciding to stubbornly cling to every meter of territory and fight to the death for every single ruined building was not a smart thing to do. Especially in places like Bakhmut where the Russians took full advantage of this stubbornness to really bleed them dry, which probably greatly contributed to the failure of the counteroffensive that we have been witnessing for the past months. Everyone who has ever read history, all the way since ancient times, through the Mongols, to WW2 recognized this is what the Russians were doing and was warning that Ukraine should have a more flexible defense as well. But i guess learning from history is just something evil tankies do…