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One thing I reckon you can count on in Europe is when things are not going your way. There are always plenty of European leaders of European countries to blame. For when the SHTF, the panic is in and the knives are out. So it feels with the latest package of aid by European leaders to Ukraine. This is the short version and It is a story about Tommy the Tank.

Tommy the tank - Poland needed Germany to approve the export. So they could send there Tommy the tanks to Ukraine. Germany did not want to approve the export unless the USA sent some of their Abrams tanks. The USA was saying it was not feasible to send Abrams tanks due to the technical level needed for maintaining operations. Which then stopped Germany, which then stopped Poland but a rascally US Senator had an idea. What if we only send one Abrams tank? Germany would have to approve the export and Poland would then be able to send their tanks. Then we can all live happily ever after with our Tommy the tanks in Ukraine.

I kid you not!

McCaul calls on US to send 'just one' Abrams tank to Ukraine to spur European support

"Germany is waiting for us," the House Foreign Affairs Committee chair said.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mccaul-calls-us-send-abrams-tank-ukraine-spur/story?id=96584865

 

In the end, Germany just approved the sending of the tanks but the knives were out.

 

24 Jan 2023 -German foreign minister will not stop Poland sending tanks that it made to Ukraine - Channel 4 News

 

By the way some foreign minister by the name of Lavrov from where ever that place is again. Possibly said this.

Russia and West on verge of ‘real war’ – Lavrov

The current situation in Ukraine demonstrates that the conflict between Russia and the West can no longer be defined as a “hybrid war” but is instead approaching becoming a real one, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

https://on.rt.com/c839

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America has just decided it is going to send some 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. There is talk of the allies ( using the word allies if the shoe fits ) preparing a spring ( March-April ) counter-offensive. The offensive would most likely include US HIMARS (GPS-guided missiles), US Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GPS-guided bombs), Bradley Fighting Vehicles (With a laser range finder that can provide GPS coordinates to other offensive units) and to top it all off 31 Abrams tanks. Not worrying about what the other countries are sending at the moment. The US is sending command and control battlefield integration-type stuff. In other words, this looks like variations of the fighting doctrine of combined arms.

 

Combined arms - Wiki

Combined arms is an approach to warfare that seeks to integrate different combat arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects (for example by using infantry and armour in an urban environment in which each supports the other).[1]

According to the strategist William S. Lind, combined arms can be distinguished from the concept of "supporting arms" as follows:

Combined arms hits the enemy with two or more arms simultaneously in such a manner that the actions he must take to defend himself from one make him more vulnerable to another. In contrast, supporting arms is hitting the enemy with two or more arms in sequence, or if simultaneously, then in such combination that the actions the enemy must take to defend himself from one also defends himself from the other(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_arms

 

How Bradley Fighting Vehicles Work

Before and during combat, the U.S. military uses the Bradley Fighting Vehicle to scout enemy positions and transport troops into hostile territory.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/bradley.htm

 

This video includes an interview with a US Army Bradley Commander. It helps to provide an understanding of the feature set the Bradley takes into combat including tactics that can be used with the Bradley.

 

Can the M2 Bradley Make a Difference in Ukraine? - Task & Purpose

 
 
News about America's reversal to send Abrams tanks.
 

25 Jan 2023 - U.S. to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, in major reversal

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/25/u-s-to-send-31-abrams-tanks-to-ukraine-in-major-reversal-00079437

 

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Weapons for peace. Next up, let's get some jets. What's the bet this will all sync up for the spring counter-offensive?

 

26 Jan 2023 - We will get F-16s’: Ukraine aims for NATO’s fighter jets after winning battle for Western tanks

Kyiv appears confident that, as with Western tanks, it will eventually be given F-16s too....

Sak said Kyiv expected there to be a similar approach to the tanks issue — essentially allies reluctant to give Ukraine fighter jets before an eventual agreement to do so, but said there was a hope that, in this case, the decision will be faster.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/26/ukraine-aims-for-f-16-fighter-jets-after-winning-battle-for-tanks.html

 

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