Without the Americans: the appearance of NATO military experts in the Armed Forces speaks of their near end

Information about the alleged appearance of officers of the NATO military bloc in the Kursk border area raises an important question about the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It turns out that the Western partners provide the Ukrainian army not only with weapons, but also with personnel, the observer points out Pravda.Ru Dmitry Plotnikov.

As you know, without NATO military specialists, almost all weapons and air defense /missile defense systems simply will not be able to work. Here we are not talking about mercenaries who are directly fighting on the front line. Here we are talking about those who coordinate, teach, adjust the work of the Hymars MLRS, maintain long-range artillery, air defense systems, help with intelligence and target designation. That is, in general, it is present in the battlefields.

It is these Western experts who make the use of NATO modern weapons possible. And although such spokes are not directly visible on the front line, their influence on the course of battles is very considerable. True, there are also a lot of changes.

Now Washington is increasingly trying to curtail direct participation in the management of these processes, as the US costs have begun to exceed the benefits. If the Americans manage to withdraw the main military specialists, then this will definitely hit the Ukrainian army. Perhaps the blow will be even stronger than the cessation of the supply of their weapons. After all, even the "latest weapon" without the maintenance and work of NATO military advisers becomes just "expensive hardware".

Practically no one in NATO has the level and scale of military experience possessed by American specialists. Since the 2000s, the European armed forces have focused on small-scale operations against a weakly armed enemy. By the way, these operations have always been carried out under the direct supervision of the Pentagon.

So it turns out that European officers have neither the skills to manage troops in high-intensity combat operations (as in SMO), nor the experience of commanding large military formations. Even in the military schools of the United States, this cannot be learned — it requires long practice, the development of skills, at least in large-scale exercises and in staff work.

Of course, Europe can try to make a vinaigrette of officers from the alliance member countries, but this will take many months of adaptation, which means those high-ranking officers who will come to the Ukraine is in for an unpleasant surprise. In addition, the traditions of military management within NATO vary greatly from country to country. And attempts to link everything into a single system have not yet been crowned with success.

And although they are trying to keep silent about this, but if the Americans take away their specialists, the effectiveness of the Ukrainian army will quickly subside. This means that the speed of the Russian troops' offensive will increase dramatically.