to be honest, whats even more sad is the paywall being put up to hear him speak. I would love to hear the entire discussion that was spoken about in this video. Fuck you little wars TV
I so wish there was a whole catalogue of Col. Glantz putting on lectures about the war. I recently found a video I hadn't seen before where he was on a zoom call with several others.
The chance to talk to Col. Glantz is never one we’d pass up! We were interviewing him for another project when he started talking about modern Ukraine. Fascinating stuff
@@LittleWarsTV Not only that but someone who actually knows WTF he is talking about --- not every Historian does; he is actually worthy of the title. Why can't we have men like this in positions of leadership? Actually, I know why: because we have an electorate miseducated by the propagandizing teachers' unions; and, as a population, they have become lazy, negligent, and think that TV is informing them. Sadly, John Derbyshire may be right.
It took balls to publish this video. It made me proud to be a LWTV Patreon sponsor - and also I must salute Glantz. It is so refreshing to hear from a real expert who is simply trying to share knowledge and wisdom with no attempt to 'influence' the public. Thank you!
Expert historians of Glantz’s reputation are always most welcome here, algorithm be damned! The parallels to the war raging now and the one that raged in 1942-44 over the same territory are fascinating to look at
@@NikephorosLogothetes Not when you are “engaged” which he clearly is…Being a “Professional Historian” if one takes it seriously, as Glantz does, is a real thing.
Thanks for posting LWTV! There were some nice gems in there particularly the quote from General Rumyantsev (sic?) about campaigning in the Donbas. David never disapoints.
Bakhmut (Artemivsk) and now Avdiivka have fallen to the Russians. Col Glantz based on his knowledge of Russia probably realized the caricature the west paints of Russia wasn't accurate.
Bakmut is important. Because without bakmut. There can be no offensive into donbass region. With bakmut secured. Russian can use it as spring board to push ukraine back to denipro river. Russian supply line also secured.
Very honest and well thought-out! Anybody can shout their opinion until it becomes tiresome to question it, but it's a tragically rare virtue to be able to recognise the limits of your own knowledge.
Great video - have both his editions of When Titans Clashed. I think he also mispoke on when the Donbas was cleared - it was July-Sep 43, not 44 - just following Kursk. It is stunning how close some of the front line from 80 years ago, maps with the current one. It's sobering and sad to think of the old ladies now in their 80's and 90's and the worst kind of wars bookend their lives - many never having had a family.
Well, we know the answer now. The Ukrainians beat their heads against the wall, doing exactly what the Russians wanted them to do. They lost a lot of men and equipment. And as an American, a DoD retiree, I'm glad that Russia won the battle for Bakhmut/Artemovsk and is winning the war, which BTW starting 2014.
I have just been looking at lots of drivel on the news on how the location is unimportant (despite both sides sending in a large portion of their forces to fight the battle). Interesting to hear someone with knowledge of operations in the area from an earlier war to give their opinion.
Wow! I've been kinda losing steam on this channel bc I feel like I haven't seen many war gaming but getting David Glantz on...WOW!!! Mega props...this is why I don't unsubscribe because I know the bangers will come and this is an absolute one! Bravo LWTV...you cheeky lads did it again!!!
Bakhmut was important to the Russians for the same reasons Verdun was important to the Germans. It was a salient they could pound with artillery to destroy their opposing force's fighting strength. It's also an important crossroads that their enemy became obsessed with holding "at all costs".
it was interesting to read on the isw that almost 30 Ukrainian battalions went in and out of that city in the 10 months, the amount of casualties on both sides must be astronomical the kinds not seen sense ww2 sadly.
Seems like the Soledar-Bakhmut axis became a pressure valve for the Russians against the Ukrainian offensives in the fall. The Russians basically ran from Kherson and Kharkiv, right to Bakhmut, where they were dug in generally North, East, and South. Then they turned to the god of war, artillery. What happened? Ukraine stripped strength from those offensives, and chased Russia to Bakhmut. Giving up whatever operational impetus they could have carried on from their offensives. As more information came out about the city and region, it started to look like Bakhmut might actually be the lynch pin of the 2nd main Ukrainian defensive line that they started the war with (I'm sure they've built more defensive lines behind since the onset). Donbas has been a nightmare for the Russians AND Ukrainians whenever they try to conduct any sort of mechanized maneuver.
@@mercb3ast in 10 years we will know more for sure as war is always easier to understand once it's over. However the battle of bakhmut definitely gave the Russians and Ukrainians time as no offensive or defensive operations were launched anywhere else which we will find out shortly if that was a curse or blessing and for which side. As the Ukrainians needed time to reequip and train new men and the russians needed time to dig 30km+ defensive lines and prep, for the counter offensive.
Mr. Glantz sounds like a decent man and a master of his craft, and that's why I would like to offer him a piece of advice: Dear Sir, if you use the ISW for their daily reports, as you say, all is fine and good. For anything else, do yourself a favour and treat everything they produce as radioactive excrement. Kind regards.
Awesome to listen to Glantz on this! And when he says he "doesn't know", the honesty is refreshing -- more than one commentator could use some of it. Also, this is a touchy subject, so expect people to become upset about the wording. Oh well, I †end to get upset with the German-focused view of WW2 usual in wargaming circles and videos... (I wish, for example, that LWTV's logo wasn't a Tiger tank, haha :P )
Some of that was the Soviets not opening up the archives to the West until Glantz or writing in English aside from a few memoirs. The rest was just following the German narrative despite the holes in it.
You can keep posting interviews with Glantz because he is fascinating. God bless him and hopefully the Man upstairs with the bigger pay grade keeps him around for years to come.
When all is full of political BS (which is the only view most journalists know how to report on), it is so refreshing to hear from a truely genius scientific and military mind.
Check out the Balkenkreuz on the front of the Ukrainian tank 20 secs in. Not the cross on the turret, the one below thw barrel on the chassis. You have to be sharp eyed to see it. Same symbol as on the Panzers 1941-1945.
great video. The comment about "tank country" is so apt. The entire place is hills, gullies, farm belts, cities Though I quibble with him calling ISW the best report - ISW is not much better informed than the average person who follows this stuff on twitter, it is entirely open sourced. Rochan Consulting is the best blow by blow source for thiswar
I always tell people that history is the best After Action Report when it comes to military operations. COL Glantz nailed it with his remarks and assessment. We can only predict so much much in war. Sure there are the tangibles (numbers, quantity / quality of equipment, etc.), but you cannot discount the intangibles (human will, luck, etc.).
It's has been interesting to live during a modern industrial war. Will Bakmut become a modern Stalingrad? Was it enough to tie up the vast majority of offensive capabilities for the past 224 days? The ground has hardened and the Ukrainians are going for something more than a symbolic victory.
Good insight into the history and the terrain being fought over. But I’ve never heard Glantz admit Barbarossa was a pre emptive strike because the Russians were going to attack a week later. And how does he not know how to transpose maps over each other to figure town names out?
You've got to consider these names have been changing only in recent years - Bahkmut was only renamed in 2016. Just got a big CoolOwl map covering Ukraine that's very recent - but it shot full of place names that are out of date. Suppressing Ukrainian language is a pretty old practice of the Russians going back 400 some years. What's really fun is to read Wilhelm Tiek's Crimean Campaign maps and piece together the Russian names from the German ones on the maps.
Yep, but to be fair, I imagine this was recorded a time ago. The writing has been on the wall for Bakhmut for some weeks now. Nevertheless, Mr Glantz’s view of the suitability of the Donbas for AFVs is interesting and a useful perspective. Perhaps it goes some way to explaining the glacial progress of the RF forces.
His cadence is tailor-made for youtube. The more you feature Glantz, the better! Shit, I'd make him a partner, and sit next to him with a camera letting him speak on whatever comes to mind.
Remarkable to hear actual veterans and historians admitting they don't know what will happen while journalists and politicians announce with absolute certainty what the outcome of different battle will be. Based on the newsfeed I get in Australia; I am surprised the rainbow flag isn't flying alongside the Ukrainian one over the Kremlin by now.
The thing is in this war Bakhmut isn't the integral defensive fortress it was in WWII, that'd be Kramatorsk. Despite what the Russians will tell you this isn't the same war.
Go do some research on when war is declared and when it isn't declared and instead referred to as a conflict or an operation. There is a key difference which seems to be lost on most commenting here despite you all being into 'war games'. I'm astonished at the level of ignorance on this channel but I can only assume that most of you are American so that answers why you're all so clueless.
Because Russia has not declared war nor mobilised her economy. Legally it is the correct term. It was an intervention in a civil war. To pretend otherwise is Washington propaganda. I don’t pay taxes in the US, nevertheless I object to my government supporting a one party regime which defends Biden’s money laundering operation. Not to mention the biological laboratories mentioned by Victoria Nuland in Congress last year. There’s ample propaganda to go around on both sides without pointing fingers at unbiased commentary from a distinguished historian.
I wonder why he labels the war as special military operation? to have knowledge of ww2 is important here. It appears putin is trying bring back stalins that Nikita Khrushchev denounced after his death. Like in american politics while talking about nixon or trump....the Russians are very divided on comparing putin to stalin.
@@LittleWarsTVIncorrect. Russia calls it a “special operation” for the same reason WE call everything a “conflict” - declaring war has legal consequences which neither we nor Russians want to accept. The difference is that we in America invade country after country with no consequences, while Russia is ostracized for doing something we’d have done had Canada or Mexico tried joining an anti-US alliance with China.
@@LittleWarsTV You Americans are so clueless and your foreign policy has killed so many people across the world. This is not a joke. What your government has done is not a joke. I only hope one day you Americans get to experience war on your doorstep.
I know it sounds dumb, but it's not a 'special military operation', it's a war and an invasion. I love the channel and I'm sure it wasn;t intentional, but callng it a 'special military operation' is only really done by Russian sympathisers, similar to calling it 'the Ukraine' etc.
Why are you using terms like 'Russian sympathisers ' on a historical war gaming channel? The Russians, who are a party to what is going on in Ukraine, called it a special military operation. Russia hasn't formally declared war so it is technically still a conflict. Weird how people have to bring politics into something where someone is trying to give their objective opinion on events.
It does sound dumb, because you clearly aren’t sophisticated enough to appreciate something called “Irony”. He’s clearing using the term in an ironic, almost sneering manner, in the same way a historian (hint) would use the pet term of Hitler or Stalin for one of their operations. I guess we’re supposed to refer to Operation Barbarossa under a more politically sensitive name now? Is that the world you want? Where feelings (not facts) mean everything?
The fact that you have David Glantz talking about the liberation of Artyomovsk, a clear major battle in the SMO, is far and above one of the coolest things I've ever seen. But yes, Russia has won a major victory and overcome a neo-verdun in taking that town. Ukraine's strategy now is going to be trying to grab attention elsewhere because the Russian Wagner forces will be refitting and resting for a while after june while the regular army mops up minor areas and prepares to defend from the theoretical Ukrainian counter-offensive which is sure to be costly for the UAF.
Wagner is basically finished after the little stunt they pulled in Bakhmut. They were supposed to capture it by Spring, and they failed to do so, then they threatened to retreat to score political points. No way Russia is going to continue to use such unreliable contractors. Hell there's even talk of them rebranding and focusing purely on Africa.
@@thejsffenix6365What do you mean? He’s totally right. Bakmut fell so Ukraine launched a big raid into Russia to distract us from their major defeat. It’s going exactly as he said it would
@@thejsffenix6365 The irony of course being that Bakhmut is the name it was given under Imperial Russia and Artyomovsk the name it was given under the Soviet Union when it was a republic... Also "orcs" is demonstrably racist. I wonder how sympathetic you are to other dehumanising terms. Do you have pet names for black people, jews or asians?
Prygozyn said capturing bakhmut was never the point instead with the cordination with suruvikin the point was to let the ukranians keep defendeing it exhausting more resources and let ppl into the meatgrinder and now uaf has been degraded to a extent that they cant do a major counter attack. Prygozyn said that more than 50k ukr soildiers died which means probably 150k+ casualties(dead and injured). And these are modest numbers could be higher in march 11k ukr soildiers died even apparetly zaluzhny was there 2 weeks ago and he apparently got hurt pretty bad rumors says he had multiple life saving surgeries or he might be dead he did not show up for ramstein with milley and austin so bakhmut has been the stalingrad or kursk of this war.
Putin have said that the war in Ukraine is not a war. Instead he called his invasion for "a limited special military operation". Some say he did call it that, and not called it a war, because he wanted to avoid international criticism and juridical problems. But personally I think Putin is right. Just look at the english language. Special is an euphemism for rêŧảȑḍḛḍ. Special = rêŧảȑḍḛḍ. They mean the same thing. So the invasion is not a classic war operation. But as Putin correctly points out is it a dumb badly planned, incompetently handled rêŧảȑḍḛḍ military operation.
Really interesting to hear the historical parallels. Hopefully the brutal fighting in Bakhmut will convince Putin that he's only throwing away more and more human lives over this conflict and he'll leave Ukraine. Somehow I doubt it though.
I doubt the Russia will stop until: a) Russians in Ukraine are given back their right that Kiev took away; b) Kiev is demilitarized and neutrality guaranteed AGAIN against NATO, c) The Donbass is free of the Kiev's regime..(possibly all of eastern Ukraine If you follow the public opinion in Russia, russians want Putin to GO HARDER on the west and the ukranian, and stop dillydalling on what they see as fascistic terrorist (Kiev) and russophobic rabid dogs (the west). Also while both sides are taking losses the losses Russia is taking are way lower than the one Ukraine is taking. more sensible estimate put a 5 to 1 KIA ratio in favour of Russia. Russia has artillery, long range and air superiority ence more kills. Russia's military capacity can still surge while Ukraine's most effective days seems behind them..a smart leader would have accepted peace talks last years.
Lives are indeed being thrown away. Ukrainian lives. Around 55,000 Ukrainians died in Bakmut before Russia captured the city last weekend. Quite a feat!
The last 48 hrs will merely have confirmed to Putin that attritional warfare combined with economy of force will win the day. None of the ‘wunder waffe,’ Bayraktar, NLAW, HIMARS, Storm Shadow, Patriot, have changed the course of the war. They’ve all been quietly forgotten as they’ve each in turn been countered. Russia is fighting on its terms, on its doorstep, on Ukraine’s vital ground. In the meantime Western tax payers are losing patience with another unwin-able forever war.
This is part of a two hour interview with Col. Glantz about operations around Stalingrad in 1942. Our brief diversion into current events was just 5 minutes I’m afraid!
I feel so sad to see this person grow old. A knowledge treasure chest with just 2 lectures available online. Big fan of him and wish him good health
to be honest, whats even more sad is the paywall being put up to hear him speak. I would love to hear the entire discussion that was spoken about in this video. Fuck you little wars TV
I so wish there was a whole catalogue of Col. Glantz putting on lectures about the war. I recently found a video I hadn't seen before where he was on a zoom call with several others.
I could listen to Glantz talk about history to the tune of Tchaikovsky all day. Great, informative piece, thanks guys!
The chance to talk to Col. Glantz is never one we’d pass up! We were interviewing him for another project when he started talking about modern Ukraine. Fascinating stuff
Don't listen to jews, friendo.
@@lord_insany I won’t be listening to fools like you. Go away, you’re not welcome here. Shalom!
@@lord_insany The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Shalom!
Finally a real expert speaks. I love his books and have nearly all of them.
Always a treat to hear a leading historian connect events from history to what’s happening today!
@@LittleWarsTV Not only that but someone who actually knows WTF he is talking about --- not every Historian does; he is actually worthy of the title. Why can't we have men like this in positions of leadership? Actually, I know why: because we have an electorate miseducated by the propagandizing teachers' unions; and, as a population, they have become lazy, negligent, and think that TV is informing them. Sadly, John Derbyshire may be right.
It took balls to publish this video. It made me proud to be a LWTV Patreon sponsor - and also I must salute Glantz. It is so refreshing to hear from a real expert who is simply trying to share knowledge and wisdom with no attempt to 'influence' the public. Thank you!
Expert historians of Glantz’s reputation are always most welcome here, algorithm be damned! The parallels to the war raging now and the one that raged in 1942-44 over the same territory are fascinating to look at
Well said. And an excellent commentary from Mr Glantz which avoided bias.
"it took balls to publish this" stupid
He calls it a "special military operation". Seems like a slight attempt to influence
@@L_Train You missed the sarcasm. As well as the dozens of comments/in which this was clarified. He called it an SMO in jest.
Good to see Glantz is doing well, very curious to see your conversations with him regarding Stalingrad.
He spoke to us for almost 2 hours about Stalingrad operations for a future project!
@@LittleWarsTV We need to see that! :)
Holy shit, that's David Glantz, that magnificent bastard, I read his books!
I really can't you guys got him to appear, that's just awesome!
The Colonel needs his own channel.
He’s pretty amazing. At his age he still can rattle off regimental formations and mid level officers spanning years of World War 2.
@@LittleWarsTV "At his age"? He's 81 years old. That's not so old.
@@DavidInWroclawIt’s pretty damned old
@@NikephorosLogothetes Not when you are “engaged” which he clearly is…Being a “Professional Historian” if one takes it seriously, as Glantz does, is a real thing.
@@cameronheacox3425 Occupation and engagement doesn’t make 81 not an old age. Yes, he seems to be doing quite well for his age but it’s quite old.
Thanks for posting LWTV! There were some nice gems in there particularly the quote from General Rumyantsev (sic?) about campaigning in the Donbas. David never disapoints.
General Rumiantsev (Rum-e-ant-sev). A "y" instead of an "i"
Thank you Little Wars and thank you David Glantz for that fascinating video
Bakhmut (Artemivsk) and now Avdiivka have fallen to the Russians. Col Glantz based on his knowledge of Russia probably realized the caricature the west paints of Russia wasn't accurate.
Now it threatens to take Chasiv Yar and then advance to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Bakmut is important. Because without bakmut. There can be no offensive into donbass region.
With bakmut secured. Russian can use it as spring board to push ukraine back to denipro river. Russian supply line also secured.
this aged poorly lol
Very honest and well thought-out! Anybody can shout their opinion until it becomes tiresome to question it, but it's a tragically rare virtue to be able to recognise the limits of your own knowledge.
Cool video. Minor quibble at 0:29 that photo is clearly not from 1942 due to the schurzen on the panzers. Probably 1943 instead.
Good point Tony!
Great video - have both his editions of When Titans Clashed. I think he also mispoke on when the Donbas was cleared - it was July-Sep 43, not 44 - just following Kursk. It is stunning how close some of the front line from 80 years ago, maps with the current one. It's sobering and sad to think of the old ladies now in their 80's and 90's and the worst kind of wars bookend their lives - many never having had a family.
Well, we know the answer now. The Ukrainians beat their heads against the wall, doing exactly what the Russians wanted them to do. They lost a lot of men and equipment. And as an American, a DoD retiree, I'm glad that Russia won the battle for Bakhmut/Artemovsk and is winning the war, which BTW starting 2014.
Indeed. God Bless you.
Meat grinder?
Wonderful. Always insightful and wickedly honest. A great addition to your usual wargames videos. 👏
Thank you for this. I enjoyed everything about this video, the lessons from the expert, the context, the edit, the music, etc. A+
Awesome video. Please have him and others like him on more often, if at all possible!
Glantz is unparalleled in his knowledge of the eastern front. Great choice.
well, that was interesting. Thank you.
What is the name of the music in the background?
I have just been looking at lots of drivel on the news on how the location is unimportant (despite both sides sending in a large portion of their forces to fight the battle).
Interesting to hear someone with knowledge of operations in the area from an earlier war to give their opinion.
Very interesting to hear from this perspective. Thank you
Wow! I've been kinda losing steam on this channel bc I feel like I haven't seen many war gaming but getting David Glantz on...WOW!!! Mega props...this is why I don't unsubscribe because I know the bangers will come and this is an absolute one!
Bravo LWTV...you cheeky lads did it again!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Jay! And next week we have one heck of a massive new wargame coming if that’s what you’ve been missing!
@@LittleWarsTV I'm looking forward to it. Please keep up the great work and don't get me wrong I love the non-wargaming stuff too!
what ever happened to the HMGS white paper ?
Glantz is a legend. Great interview thanks.
Bakhmut was important to the Russians for the same reasons Verdun was important to the Germans. It was a salient they could pound with artillery to destroy their opposing force's fighting strength. It's also an important crossroads that their enemy became obsessed with holding "at all costs".
Well said. Apparently some things never change…
it was interesting to read on the isw that almost 30 Ukrainian battalions went in and out of that city in the 10 months, the amount of casualties on both sides must be astronomical the kinds not seen sense ww2 sadly.
Seems like the Soledar-Bakhmut axis became a pressure valve for the Russians against the Ukrainian offensives in the fall. The Russians basically ran from Kherson and Kharkiv, right to Bakhmut, where they were dug in generally North, East, and South. Then they turned to the god of war, artillery.
What happened? Ukraine stripped strength from those offensives, and chased Russia to Bakhmut. Giving up whatever operational impetus they could have carried on from their offensives.
As more information came out about the city and region, it started to look like Bakhmut might actually be the lynch pin of the 2nd main Ukrainian defensive line that they started the war with (I'm sure they've built more defensive lines behind since the onset). Donbas has been a nightmare for the Russians AND Ukrainians whenever they try to conduct any sort of mechanized maneuver.
@@mercb3ast in 10 years we will know more for sure as war is always easier to understand once it's over. However the battle of bakhmut definitely gave the Russians and Ukrainians time as no offensive or defensive operations were launched anywhere else which we will find out shortly if that was a curse or blessing and for which side. As the Ukrainians needed time to reequip and train new men and the russians needed time to dig 30km+ defensive lines and prep, for the counter offensive.
@@mourka01 Indeed, time has already shown us the results.
Mr. Glantz sounds like a decent man and a master of his craft, and that's why I would like to offer him a piece of advice: Dear Sir, if you use the ISW for their daily reports, as you say, all is fine and good. For anything else, do yourself a favour and treat everything they produce as radioactive excrement. Kind regards.
Col. Glantz is a true gentleman and scholar, the profundity of his work is astonishing.
Has he narrated any of his work in audiobook? I'd love to put that on during the day!
They did take it in 1943..
Awesome to listen to Glantz on this! And when he says he "doesn't know", the honesty is refreshing -- more than one commentator could use some of it. Also, this is a touchy subject, so expect people to become upset about the wording. Oh well, I †end to get upset with the German-focused view of WW2 usual in wargaming circles and videos... (I wish, for example, that LWTV's logo wasn't a Tiger tank, haha :P )
Some of that was the Soviets not opening up the archives to the West until Glantz or writing in English aside from a few memoirs. The rest was just following the German narrative despite the holes in it.
You can keep posting interviews with Glantz because he is fascinating. God bless him and hopefully the Man upstairs with the bigger pay grade keeps him around for years to come.
Bakhmut was taken by Russia approx a day ago
Damn the algorithm! Full speed ahead!
- David G. Farragut
Finally someone who has a real perspective. Thku very much for sharing his views and thoughts.
Thank your sir for your time, and thank you lwtv for your videos !
COL Glantz is spot on and love to hear and learn from him anytime he talks, also a VMI man! Rah va mil!!!
Whole Damn Team
Great guy to listen to. Mixes expertise with humor.
I believe the Russians have taken the city, few days ago.
Sadly, that sounds likely. At what appears to be huge cost. Hopefully the Ukrainian counter-offensive can flip the momentum
@@LittleWarsTV Hopefully not
Great to come across David Glantz on UA-cam. Be interesting for this channel to get Dr. Jonathan House his co-author on if not already done so.
Thanks for creating this, really interesting perspective. Place matters!
Hw needs to speak more more interviews , I have alot of his books they are great
When all is full of political BS (which is the only view most journalists know how to report on), it is so refreshing to hear from a truely genius scientific and military mind.
Glantz IS the reference for WW2... Period!!! I have almost all his books.
I think the ISW is compromised also.
Its a pathetic western propaganda rag.
Check out the Balkenkreuz on the front of the Ukrainian tank 20 secs in. Not the cross on the turret, the one below thw barrel on the chassis. You have to be sharp eyed to see it. Same symbol as on the Panzers 1941-1945.
He’s got a smart daughter
I have read a number of his books on the eastern front of WW2. Great reads.
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I love listening to people like that talk a miltary history.Specially ww2.
great video. The comment about "tank country" is so apt. The entire place is hills, gullies, farm belts, cities
Though I quibble with him calling ISW the best report - ISW is not much better informed than the average person who follows this stuff on twitter, it is entirely open sourced. Rochan Consulting is the best blow by blow source for thiswar
Isn't the... Institute for the Study of War IIRC, funded by the American government? A bit of a conflict of interest if so.
Bravo little wars, bravo
Oh this is so outstanding!
I love Glantz, I’ve read so many of his have read his books, and I really wish he would start writing soon
Hope you are around ! Thank you Sir !
Good stuff
The russians took bahkmut may 20
I have read many of this gentleman's books. He's an expert on WW2, the German Army and its armour.
Regardless of today's issues, thank you for this.
At least now he can call the city by it's Russian name.
What a great interview! Would love to hear from this guy again sometime.
Excellent
I always tell people that history is the best After Action Report when it comes to military operations. COL Glantz nailed it with his remarks and assessment. We can only predict so much much in war. Sure there are the tangibles (numbers, quantity / quality of equipment, etc.), but you cannot discount the intangibles (human will, luck, etc.).
You guys got David Glantz to speak! Well done!
Well done to get an interview with Colonel Glantz.
The Colonel sounds like he knows more than the people that have the pay grade.
It's has been interesting to live during a modern industrial war. Will Bakmut become a modern Stalingrad? Was it enough to tie up the vast majority of offensive capabilities for the past 224 days?
The ground has hardened and the Ukrainians are going for something more than a symbolic victory.
Love David, only gripe half his books are the footnotes haha but so well written is his work i forgive it
Special Operation?
Putins words.
@@LittleWarsTV I fail to see how that's a defence in the context of this video.
He might supports the Russians. Are you angry about it?
Don’t cater to Putin. Don’t use the term Special Military Operation, that gives the term and him legitimacy.
Call it what it is, a war.
Good insight into the history and the terrain being fought over. But I’ve never heard Glantz admit Barbarossa was a pre emptive strike because the Russians were going to attack a week later. And how does he not know how to transpose maps over each other to figure town names out?
Bullshit
You've got to consider these names have been changing only in recent years - Bahkmut was only renamed in 2016. Just got a big CoolOwl map covering Ukraine that's very recent - but it shot full of place names that are out of date. Suppressing Ukrainian language is a pretty old practice of the Russians going back 400 some years. What's really fun is to read Wilhelm Tiek's Crimean Campaign maps and piece together the Russian names from the German ones on the maps.
Bakhmut has been taken by Wagner and RF. No need to argue with that. Playing the "who knows" card is just copium.
Yep, but to be fair, I imagine this was recorded a time ago. The writing has been on the wall for Bakhmut for some weeks now. Nevertheless, Mr Glantz’s view of the suitability of the Donbas for AFVs is interesting and a useful perspective. Perhaps it goes some way to explaining the glacial progress of the RF forces.
The Russians just took it 🤣🤣
Great news!
day 455 of the 3 day special military operation
I'm glad we have him still he is The Expert on this
There are "experts" and there are experts. Well done!
Glantz was able to decodify and explain the most complex subject of WW2. A true master historian.
That place was destroyed by the fighting in Ukraine
His cadence is tailor-made for youtube. The more you feature Glantz, the better! Shit, I'd make him a partner, and sit next to him with a camera letting him speak on whatever comes to mind.
this is a prime reason that people should study history
Legend 👍
A legend of Eastern Front military studies.
Wisdom based on intelligence and tempered by age. I read once a gamer professing that wargaming helps us predict military outcomes......
David M. Glanz ladies and gentlemen. That's enough said.
Remarkable to hear actual veterans and historians admitting they don't know what will happen while journalists and politicians announce with absolute certainty what the outcome of different battle will be. Based on the newsfeed I get in Australia; I am surprised the rainbow flag isn't flying alongside the Ukrainian one over the Kremlin by now.
The thing is in this war Bakhmut isn't the integral defensive fortress it was in WWII, that'd be Kramatorsk. Despite what the Russians will tell you this isn't the same war.
Please call the "Special operation" what itis. a war.
Nah, it’s a special operation
Does no one read video descriptions anymore??
@@LittleWarsTV I don't know how to read
@@commandergree2428 it's very special indeed
Go do some research on when war is declared and when it isn't declared and instead referred to as a conflict or an operation. There is a key difference which seems to be lost on most commenting here despite you all being into 'war games'. I'm astonished at the level of ignorance on this channel but I can only assume that most of you are American so that answers why you're all so clueless.
Why he called the war a "Special Operation" which is a russian propaganda term?
He was mocking Putin.
Because Russia has not declared war nor mobilised her economy. Legally it is the correct term. It was an intervention in a civil war. To pretend otherwise is Washington propaganda. I don’t pay taxes in the US, nevertheless I object to my government supporting a one party regime which defends Biden’s money laundering operation. Not to mention the biological laboratories mentioned by Victoria Nuland in Congress last year. There’s ample propaganda to go around on both sides without pointing fingers at unbiased commentary from a distinguished historian.
@@LittleWarsTV Then you and him need to understand Russia has not declared war.
I wonder why he labels the war as special military operation? to have knowledge of ww2 is important here. It appears putin is trying bring back stalins that Nikita Khrushchev denounced after his death. Like in american politics while talking about nixon or trump....the Russians are very divided on comparing putin to stalin.
Having interviewed him for hours, I can tell you he was quoting Putin in mocking jest. Putin’s so called “special operation.”
@@LittleWarsTVIncorrect. Russia calls it a “special operation” for the same reason WE call everything a “conflict” - declaring war has legal consequences which neither we nor Russians want to accept. The difference is that we in America invade country after country with no consequences, while Russia is ostracized for doing something we’d have done had Canada or Mexico tried joining an anti-US alliance with China.
@@ajlynch123 spot on. Refreshing to see some reality in a comment on this subject.
@@ajlynch123 and that’s why we Mexicans are with Russia, America has only drifted us away for mistreating their neighbor
@@LittleWarsTV You Americans are so clueless and your foreign policy has killed so many people across the world. This is not a joke. What your government has done is not a joke. I only hope one day you Americans get to experience war on your doorstep.
I know it sounds dumb, but it's not a 'special military operation', it's a war and an invasion. I love the channel and I'm sure it wasn;t intentional, but callng it a 'special military operation' is only really done by Russian sympathisers, similar to calling it 'the Ukraine' etc.
A rule of thumb is that if someone’s calling this genocidal war an “SMO” they’re a russian sympathizer. Real shame that this channel stooped so low
@@ТимофейОстрогляд Either that, or they are shitposting as in: "Year 2 of the 3-day SMO"
Why are you using terms like 'Russian sympathisers ' on a historical war gaming channel?
The Russians, who are a party to what is going on in Ukraine, called it a special military operation.
Russia hasn't formally declared war so it is technically still a conflict.
Weird how people have to bring politics into something where someone is trying to give their objective opinion on events.
It does sound dumb, because you clearly aren’t sophisticated enough to appreciate something called “Irony”. He’s clearing using the term in an ironic, almost sneering manner, in the same way a historian (hint) would use the pet term of Hitler or Stalin for one of their operations. I guess we’re supposed to refer to Operation Barbarossa under a more politically sensitive name now? Is that the world you want? Where feelings (not facts) mean everything?
Condemning somebody for being on the "wrong side" because of the terminology they use is Twitter-level commentary. Please don't bring it here.
God Bless.
The fact that you have David Glantz talking about the liberation of Artyomovsk, a clear major battle in the SMO, is far and above one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
But yes, Russia has won a major victory and overcome a neo-verdun in taking that town. Ukraine's strategy now is going to be trying to grab attention elsewhere because the Russian Wagner forces will be refitting and resting for a while after june while the regular army mops up minor areas and prepares to defend from the theoretical Ukrainian counter-offensive which is sure to be costly for the UAF.
Wagner is basically finished after the little stunt they pulled in Bakhmut. They were supposed to capture it by Spring, and they failed to do so, then they threatened to retreat to score political points. No way Russia is going to continue to use such unreliable contractors. Hell there's even talk of them rebranding and focusing purely on Africa.
@@thejsffenix6365What do you mean? He’s totally right. Bakmut fell so Ukraine launched a big raid into Russia to distract us from their major defeat. It’s going exactly as he said it would
@@thejsffenix6365 The irony of course being that Bakhmut is the name it was given under Imperial Russia and Artyomovsk the name it was given under the Soviet Union when it was a republic...
Also "orcs" is demonstrably racist. I wonder how sympathetic you are to other dehumanising terms. Do you have pet names for black people, jews or asians?
Prygozyn said capturing bakhmut was never the point instead with the cordination with suruvikin the point was to let the ukranians keep defendeing it exhausting more resources and let ppl into the meatgrinder and now uaf has been degraded to a extent that they cant do a major counter attack. Prygozyn said that more than 50k ukr soildiers died which means probably 150k+ casualties(dead and injured). And these are modest numbers could be higher in march 11k ukr soildiers died even apparetly zaluzhny was there 2 weeks ago and he apparently got hurt pretty bad rumors says he had multiple life saving surgeries or he might be dead he did not show up for ramstein with milley and austin so bakhmut has been the stalingrad or kursk of this war.
I look forward to the inevitable Tankie statement of " it wasnt important/goodwill operation/ it was a feint" when the russians lose it.
Special operation…?
Putin have said that the war in Ukraine is not a war. Instead he called his invasion for "a limited special military operation".
Some say he did call it that, and not called it a war, because he wanted to avoid international criticism and juridical problems.
But personally I think Putin is right.
Just look at the english language. Special is an euphemism for rêŧảȑḍḛḍ.
Special = rêŧảȑḍḛḍ. They mean the same thing.
So the invasion is not a classic war operation. But as Putin correctly points out is it a dumb badly planned, incompetently handled rêŧảȑḍḛḍ military operation.
Slava Ukraine
Really interesting to hear the historical parallels. Hopefully the brutal fighting in Bakhmut will convince Putin that he's only throwing away more and more human lives over this conflict and he'll leave Ukraine. Somehow I doubt it though.
I doubt the Russia will stop until:
a) Russians in Ukraine are given back their right that Kiev took away;
b) Kiev is demilitarized and neutrality guaranteed AGAIN against NATO,
c) The Donbass is free of the Kiev's regime..(possibly all of eastern Ukraine
If you follow the public opinion in Russia, russians want Putin to GO HARDER on the west and the ukranian, and stop dillydalling on what they see as fascistic terrorist (Kiev) and russophobic rabid dogs (the west).
Also while both sides are taking losses the losses Russia is taking are way lower than the one Ukraine is taking. more sensible estimate put a 5 to 1 KIA ratio in favour of Russia.
Russia has artillery, long range and air superiority ence more kills.
Russia's military capacity can still surge while Ukraine's most effective days seems behind them..a smart leader would have accepted peace talks last years.
Lives are indeed being thrown away. Ukrainian lives. Around 55,000 Ukrainians died in Bakmut before Russia captured the city last weekend. Quite a feat!
@@ajlynch123 and no Russians are dying, is that right?
The last 48 hrs will merely have confirmed to Putin that attritional warfare combined with economy of force will win the day. None of the ‘wunder waffe,’ Bayraktar, NLAW, HIMARS, Storm Shadow, Patriot, have changed the course of the war. They’ve all been quietly forgotten as they’ve each in turn been countered. Russia is fighting on its terms, on its doorstep, on Ukraine’s vital ground. In the meantime Western tax payers are losing patience with another unwin-able forever war.
Your time is over
Good bye 👋
Fantastic video and great insight. It's depressing, however, how many pro-Russian opinions are being voiced in the comments below
Have to agree there, Tiberius.
Numbnuts it's not a special military operation is a war an innocent Ukrainian civilians
Why does he call it a "Special Operation" Isnt that just russian propaganda?
Depends on where you live. Most of the world says nato propaganda..
Special = rêŧảȑḍḛḍ
даже не хочу слушать этого старика. думаю он знает что Русских не победить
Is there more of this interview? Would love to hear his in delth analysis on the current situation
This is part of a two hour interview with Col. Glantz about operations around Stalingrad in 1942. Our brief diversion into current events was just 5 minutes I’m afraid!
@@LittleWarsTV No worries! Where can I see the full interview?