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The vaunted SPETZNAZ are one of the few truly professional elements in the Russian military and they have indeed made changes to their training since Afghanistan but when they went into Afghanistan. Their training had not prepared them for what American and British specops training has always prepared for, namely creating friendly forces with locals and then using them to fight the war themselves
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Wholly agree & guess what US of this era were not much good at it, they still leave it to others like the Brits if they can.
Its just so much flag waving Hollywood style taking known issues with the Soviet Army & saying they applly uniformly across the board. If I wrote as I suspect is these guys viewpoint you could say virtualy everything said applies equally to the USAs efforts in Vietnam a bit earlier.
The diffrence is simple USSR as think Snipey said were cripled by supply (Kremlin) while we go in with total overkill. Do you think the Soviets used a helo gunship to take out one man. Its mad I have seen videos planes or multiple vehicles shooting at a group of 4 or 5 men. They never saw this sort of firepower it was a more traditional war man against man & when the USSR did try using helos the MANPADS good old USA supplied them with were used.
That & the time that has passed & hence yes changes in training means they should do better, whether its enough we will have to wait & see.
In fact if I was a Russin journalist I would be urging for massive arms programs as 5 years from now the Likes of USA will be good at fighting terrorists but stopping big armoured forces could be a problem. They have way to many specialists great at what they do but thats it period.
Thats taking a few facts & washing over it just like this article, not really the place for this it tells you nothing for scenerio design tactics are controlled by you & forces used there are far better sources.
Ha just read the previous 2 posts phone went while doing this.