Ukrainian Anti-Armor Attacks Defining War Against Russia

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By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the Ukraine war is the success and intensity with which a smaller, largely dismounted force of Ukrainian soldiers stopped and even destroyed a heavy attack from Russian mechanized vehicles. Ukrainian defenders likely accomplished this in large measure through sheer intensity, force of will and a collective need to protect their families and children from deliberate Russian attacks on civilians.

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Another key part of their success is purely tactical in the sense that they were able to use dispersed groups of dismounted soldiers armed with anti-tank weapons to stage ambushes, hit-and-run strikes and attacks from elevated or obscured positions to destroy armored vehicles from hidden or tough-to-reach locations.

Yet another key component of this was explained to Warrior by a former Army Commander from Operation Enduring Freedom who led the attacks on Iraqi Republican Guard forces at the Baghdad airport during the initial invasion.

Retired Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, who was an Army Rifle Company Commander, said the Iraqis tried to use intersections, cross-sections and chokepoints to ambush approaching US armored vehicles from tactically advantageous positions. “They had some success” using this strategy, Rutter said, however the US Army was able to quickly prevail in these now-famous encounters.