On: Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare

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> It’s easy for that to get way out of control, very very quickly.

I generally agree, but there are emotional limits to this kind of thing. Americans have historically been very willing to commit airplanes and bombs to righteous causes, but marching to Moscow would be a very different matter. I assume the same thing is happening with Russia's conscripts: "Why the fuck are we doing this?"

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> I assume the same thing is happening with Russia's conscripts: "Why the fuck are we doing this?"

Russia has switched in the last 10 years (20?), to a large extent, from a conscript to a volunteer and mercenary force.