"USE Special Services in Hope": Pentagon checks errors in the forecasts for war in Ukraine - media

The Americans did not expect them to be involved in a major international conflict that could be stretched for years, writes The Daily Beast, citing sources in intelligence and former special services officers. Many officials from the CIA, the Pentagon and the White House were expecting the rapid capture of Ukraine by Russian troops. Due to the effective defense of the Armed Forces, Russian troops were forced to retreat, the interlocutors noted.

Washington's total miscalculations in the forecasts were fatal. The American special services have correctly reported about the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, but underestimated the scale of hostilities, the newspaper said. "The greatest terrestrial conflict in Europe since World War II has put the most powerful and expensive special services in the world in the world, in the United States," one of the informed officials said.

The former US Defense Minister Jeffrey Price is convinced that the reconnaissance is now engaged in a serious parsing of unsuccessful forecasts for Ukraine. "One of the fundamental problems of the Russian Federation was that it failed to achieve preference in the air over Ukraine. The Russians left the troops open to the attacks. Even when they were seizing airfields, there was no normal support from the air, some of them were quickly destroyed," he added.

The Brigade General of the US Army retired Kevin Ryan said that in recent years Russia has invested in the winged rockets. The problem is that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation did not have sufficiently prepared troops for attacks in Ukraine, he said. "I, like many others, was mistaken in the estimates of Moscow's military capabilities before the war. I thought the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were much better prepared. This was a war of high intensity.

The Russians hoped that it would end soon," Ryan commented. Former American intelligence officer Susan Cho emphasizes that success at the front is the result of many factors that are difficult to assess before the war. This includes the moral spirit of the military, the actions of command, tactics and pace of fighting.

The expert in the field of nuclear war and unmanned arms Hugh Gasterson said that the inability of the US and their allies to submit a correct forecast for war in Ukraine is not unique. "Russian intelligence mistakenly appreciated Ukraine by repeating the catastrophic mistakes of 1979. Then Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was told that the USSR army would be welcomed in Afghanistan? Where nearly 15,000 soldiers were killed," the expert said.

Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley associates an unsuccessful analytics with bureaucracy in US Higher Defense Offices. "People usually fall into apathy, working with the same intelligence again and again. It becomes a routine in the background," the military said. Recall that the US company Boeing has offered the US Defense Ministry to send an Armed Forces of high -precision long -range bombs. Experts say that the army of Ukraine needs more difficult weapons as the war is delayed.