기고자는 퇴역 미군 제18 공수군단 사령관이며
그 유명한 제101 공수사단을 예하 부대로 두고
있는 상급 부대입니다.
근래 몇달간 우크라이나를 직접 다녀와서 올린
기고문입니다.
이 장성에 따르면 우크라이나가 외국서 받은
여러 장비들을 수리하는 건 지금으로썬 현실적
이지 않은 공상일 뿐이라네요.
또, 우크라이나가 막대한 군 부상자들에 의해
압도되고 있는데 이걸 빨리 처리하지 못 하면
내부에 심각한 여파가 있을 거라 하구요.
The Ukraine Diaries: The Biggest Challenge is not Allowing
Ukraine to Lose this War
2023.09.29
Just back from my third trip to Kyiv in as many months,
I wanted to share some observations on Ukrainian
successes and challenges and pass on their expressions
of thanks to the American people and to the Western
Coalition for the amazing support to the defense of Ukraine.
There is currently little progress being made toward
maintaining donated equipment on the battlefield.
Fixing damaged equipment today is a concept, not a reality.
Institutional military training capacity building is needed now.
If this is not addressed immediately, Ukraine’s future military
capability is questionable.
Those who are taking care of Ukraine’s wounded military
service members are overwhelmed.
If this isn’t addressed quickly, it will have severe internal
implications.
[Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick, U.S. Army, Retired, joined SOSi
in 2012, after a distinguished 36-year military career.
While in the military, he was the Commanding General of
America’s only Airborne Corps and the nation’s largest
military installation, Fort Bragg.]
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/the-ukraine-diaries-the-biggest-challenge-is-not-allowing-ukraine-to-lose-this-war