Quote (ofthevoid @ 18 May 2022 14:10)
Widely accepted rules of war say you need approximately a 3:1 advantage as an attacking army trying to take a city. Let's say 95% of the people of Kiev are civilians or people that would not fight or left. That leaves a force of 150k people to fight.
30k troops is much too small of a number to try and take a city of that size, especially considering the fact that Kiev would have gotten military reinforcements from the west and south.
Widely accepted rules say that when you cut supply and energy lines from the city, and bombard it, starve it, it will have no other choice than to surrender, sooner or later.
150k people willing to resist maybe, but how you gonna arm these people at least with javelins, Panzerfausts, bulletproof vests, etc, when you didnt have them?
And give those people even a very little basic military training?
When you are against an army that has a shitload of advanced weaponry, armored vehicles, that laugh ak47 in the face?