[CaptainCrunch]

Its interesting because of the debate about Russian capability and their armed forces, and people saying that they're not capable or second rate. But what we're seeing is a huge tactical and philosophical change with the Russians.

For years NATO planning involved countering a Russian Force that was designed as a brute force kitchen sink military. It used a minimum of 3-1 advantage of forces to counter their inferior technology. If you had 1000 tanks they would hit you with 3000 supported by mass artillary. If you had 1000 fighter bombers they would have 3000. The Russian/Soviet ideal was hitting you with overwhelming force at one point, rip your line open and then poor their reserves through to ravage your rear area (and yes that was intentional). We also saw it with their navy, they had massive numbers of subs and more specialization in their classes then Americans.

But economic reality has changed that. They can't afford to build 10,000 tanks and 500 subs and 50,000 armored fighting vehicles.

Instead they're following the philosophy that Canada should be following. fewer men, fewer tanks and fewer planes and ships and subs, but you spend lavishly on those numbers and bank heavily on either technological parity or an advantage.

The playbook has flipped.

The new Russian Submarines are on par if not slightly more advanced then their American counterparts. Their tanks well what they call a MBT is comparable now to the M1 tank, however the T-14 is more advanced and has a strong ability to survive in the battlefield. The Russians are spending a lot of money on their airforce and naval aviation wings.

At the same time, while the Russians have always been obsessed with special forces units, they've completely thrown their backs behind the use of special action teams.

I guess that the russian military is no longer the brutish Russian bear, they want it to be a surgeon.