already provided ukraine with billions of dollars worth of weapons and are now moving to give kyiv heavier arms to counter vladimir putin s tank battalions. the national security advisor says ukraine needs all the firepower it can get. i would never say that the russian army is weak, he says, given the amount of weapons thrown there, the number of tanks, armored personnel carriers, planes and helicopters. i would not say this is a weak army. i would say these are strong ukrainian soldiers who fight back such a powerful army. the national security advisor also tells me for ukraine the end game is clear. there will be no russian soldiers in this area, he says, neither in crimea nor on the territory of donetsk or h uluha regions. we are not going to give up. that s also what the territorial defense group pledges, ready to bring its forces to the east to confronting of the russian army
syria, dvornikov, their best people and their best troops and they briefly want this in ukraine are looking to different but ukraine is also suffered a great deal of battle losses in this war and just it is hard for me to see how they re going to win this over time. eric: they have an effort at some point will present has been mother sending 800 tank missiles they have the old soviet tanks as well as what teeth 60 force in central europe that are being in the process of being sent, from central european countries and the replace with new tanks, would that be enough that ukrainians have captured about 161, russian tanks so they have a whole bunch of new soviet russian eric take that they could use and as you said, what are we going to see when to tank battalions face each other. davis: we also have to understand that i personally experience with this and say
metropolitan areas. they re on the outskirts, we re seeing a reconnaissance, gru, spets units trying to encircle and destabilize the capital. if the russians go after kyiv, and they probably don t want to, it could be a bloody mess and a terrible optics worldwide. they ll go in there at five, six, ten tank battalions at the same time. we haven t seen that. so, let s be filled with admiration but i m most encouraged by germany stepping forward now, visibly, and saying we re standing with the ukrainians with lethal aid, and also the hundred other venues now that are communicating back to russia, they re out of line. phil harmonic conductors being told they can t enter the united states. norwegians telling them they won t be allowed to compete in ski events.
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Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin McBain, a fire support specialist with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Information Group, monitors a radio during exercise Summer Fury 20 in Yuma, Ariz., on July 14, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo
This post is part of a series of stories looking back at the top naval news from 2020.
2020 was a turning-point year for the Marine Corps. After previewing changes to come in his Commandant’s Planning Guidance released last year, Commandant Gen. David Berger released a Force Design 2030 document this year outlining major changes in how the service would operate and equip itself. No longer would the Marine Corps be a service schlepping around tanks for sustained ground operations; rather, it would be light and mobile, using small ships to maneuver around islands and shorelines to attack an adversary from all angles and challenge their abi