Would it be a stretch to draw parallels between the Russo-Ukrainian war and the Iran-Iraq war? Are we in for a stalemate? Does the "WW1 tactics with modern equipment" trope apply here?

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>>14959826 (OP)

Definitely. The main reason I'd say we are in another defensive war stage of combat is because once again tanks and armor are once again not mobile enough to catch up with the tempo of the rest of the battlefield. As a matter of fact it often annoys me that WWI and WWII are compared to Ukraine because Iran-Iraq and the Korean War are the best comparisons we have for a number of reasons.

is this inspired by the thread on the most brutal war?

>>14959826 (OP)

How long until zelensky sends child soldiers into human wave attacks at bakhmut?

>human wave attacks at bakhmut

You do realize Ukraine is defending, right? It's Wagner which is using prisoners for human wave attacks on Ukrainian positions.



they're getting there

>you can never counterattack while defending

I think Ukraine has too much western training, intelligence, and equipment to assume this will become a decade-long meatgrinder. The steppe terrain is also far more suited to maneuever than Korea or Iran.

Isn't the entire point of studying history to apply it to now? To learn from it? To not repeat le same mistakes? Don't even have a history board if parallels can't be drawn.

What about the humanities part

>>14959826 (OP)

WW1 wasn't a stalemate, what was left of the Entente won

To be fair the parts of Iran and Iraq the Iran-Iraq war was fougt on was flat desert. You can actually still see entrenchments from the Iran-Iraq war on the Al-Fao peninsula and the adjacent area in Iran near Khorramshahr:

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>Korean War

Redpill me on how Korea is more like Iran-Iraq than WW2.

I was saying that the Korean and Iran-Iraq wars were more like the war in Ukraine than the World Wars are in both scale and tactics. Also, Korean War was a large-scale conventional defensive war fought in a single theater, much like Iran-Iraq was.

After the stalemate was achieved Korean war had very few engagements of units above company size and was basically full on trench warfare

Korea was a static trench war for most of its duration. the first third of it was much more like WW2 with a very fast moving and dynamic front but by late 1951, neither side could really make much progress. Whenever the communists went on the offensive and launched a fresh new big push they were decimated by massive American firepower, while on the inverse the Reds were dug in deeper than Mississippi ticks and rooting them out of the North entirely would have been a slow, grinding Okinawa-tier bloodbath with losses heavy enough that the American public would have no stomach for it.

The Western front was a stalemate from 1914-1918, while the Central Powers were knocking out the Eastern and Southern powers with their B forces.
