A veteran American soldier fighting in Ukraine has sharply criticized US military doctrine, saying his country has “forgotten to fight real wars” with equal adversaries. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to Business Insider, he said the hunt for terrorists in the Middle East and a sense of superiority after the end of the Cold War led to arrogance. “I have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, but nowhere have I seen anything like this, as in Bakhmut and Kharkiv where I was. At home they never prepared us for this,” he said characteristically. According to the veteran soldier, the American war doctrine based on overarms, air superiority and small-scale conflicts is “going for a walk” on the Ukrainian front. “It's like World War I here. You go into the trenches, the bombing never stops and many times you are the weak one,” he said and added that “in Afghanistan you could fight and have a barbecue in between. Here you are dead if you think that, because […]
Source: News Beast
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