A Ukrainian military blogger, Yuriy Butusov, posted on Facebook that a major assault by N Korean troops had been repelled on Saturday. He posted that the attack was supported by “massive fire support” from Russian units, as well as electronic countermeasures again drones.

This is the interesting bit: “Despite the losses, the enemy assault groups continued to advance, never stopping even under precision fire and shelling … The enemy managed to reach the Ukrainian positions due to their good physical training, fast movement, and ignorance of their own losses; no evacuation of the wounded and dead was carried out during the assault.”

What are we to take from this post? From my perspective, it seems to reinforce what I have been saying about the poor tactics of the Russian troops. Neither they, nor their N Korean cannon fodder, seemed to have learned anything since the Korean war, when the Chinese taught them to attack in waves of massed soldiers. This tactic didn’t work during the US Civil War and has rarely worked since. Commanders who order such assaults are criminally stupid and counting on the enemy in the defensive position to run out of ammunition before the assault runs out of infantry. Highly unlikely as well as criminally stupid.

The nature of war is a constant, just like the speed of light. What changes is the character of war and knowing your enemy’s tactics as well as ever-improving technology is what helps you win at the tactical level. The unanswered question remains: What is your strategy?