![]() ![]() That shell travels by a truck,” Telenko points out. “The weapon isn’t the tank, it’s the shell the tank fires. “Everything that an army needs to do its thing comes from a truck,” says Trent Telenko, a former quality control auditor for the United States’ Defense Contract Management Agency, who is among those parsing the images for clues as to how the war is going. Photographs of damaged Russian trucks, they say, show tell-tale signs of Moscow’s logistical struggles and suggest its efforts are being undermined by its reliance on conscripts, widespread corruption and use of civilian vehicles – not to mention the huge distances involved in resupplying its forces, or Ukraine’s own highly-motivated, tactically-adept resistance. Yet that appears to be exactly the problem Russia’s military is facing during its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to experts analyzing battlefield images as its forces withdraw from areas near Kyiv to focus on the Donbas. In short, any army that neglects its trucks does so at its peril. Armies need trucks to transport their soldiers to the front lines, to supply those tanks with shells and to deliver those missiles. ![]() ![]() But arguably more important than any of these is something on which they all rely: the humble truck. Think about modern warfare and it’s likely images of soldiers, tanks and missiles will spring to mind. ![]()
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