The West’s failure to provide Ukraine fully amphibious assault vehicles suggests Western military planners are struggling to meld World War II-era river-crossing tactics into modern 21st Century war-fighting doctrine.
River Crossings Are Tough:
Complicating matters, the basic geographical requirements for any armed effort to cross a river are well known, making optimal spots for river crossings easy to identify. In essence, prospective river crossings become ideal areas for ambushes. A good number of American military experts like to scoff that, in modern combat, conventional amphibious landings are dead. But the broad expanse of the Dnieper River, rarely less than 1,000 feet wide as it winds through southern Ukraine, stands in quiet defiance to the best of America’s modern military thinkers.
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