This article shows how Russia was totally unprepared for our swift victory. They were ready to put Baghdad's successful defense into their own playbooks.
The worst possible outcome of the war in Iraq for the Russian military is a swift allied victory with relatively low casualties. Already many in Russia are beginning to ask why our forces are so ineffective compared to the Brits and Americans; and why the two battles to take Grozny in 1995 and 2000 each took more than a month to complete, with more that 5,000 Russian soldiers killed and tens of thousands wounded in both engagements, given that Grozny is one tenth the size of Baghdad.
The Russian media is generally avoiding the hard questions and serving up anti-American propaganda instead. It is alleged that the U.S. government is "concealing casualties" (like its Russian counterpart), and that hundreds if not thousands of U.S. soldiers have already been killed. Maybe this deceit will become the main semi-official excuse for disregarding the allied victory.
Or perhaps our generals who do not want to build a modern post-Soviet military will come up with some other propaganda ploy.
They've never really had an effective Army. The Nazis would have beaten them had we not invaded Europe. They were only world power because they had the bomb aimed at our cities and now they don’t even have that. How much it must irk them that we liberated Afghanistan.
The Russians real mistake is that they continue disregard the effect that freedom has on an army. When Russian fought Grozny and Afghanistan, people felt they were fighting for their freedom. Iraq offered less resistance because the soldiers and people weren’t going to defend their slave master. The Russians thought they were rooting for the underdog, Iraq versus America, but the real underdogs were the Iraqi people.
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