Analysis of Land Army Maintenance Techniques in the War in Ukraine
As seen in the first images from the battlefield, the war in Ukraine has a predominantly technical dimension. Both the Russians and Ukrainians employ a huge number of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery systems in combat operations. However, according to unconfirmed information from various sources, by the beginning of July, both sides had suffered huge losses of combat equipment.1 Numerous photographs illustrate these losses, but numerical data will not be presented here. History shows us that estimates of combat losses are often far from reliable as they are subject to all kinds of distortions caused by the “fog” of war, wishful thinking, outright lies, and other factors.2 Instead, this article analyzes the maintenance of combat technical systems in support of ground operations on both sides in the initial period of the war.
Author:
Col. Marinko Aleksić, PhD, Army of Montenegro