Originally Posted by
Spunky Monkey
Eh?
So you are suggesting the next counter offensive should start with crossing a river and estuary then driving along a 40km long spit that is 4km wide at its narrowest, through sand dunes and sparsely populated area, with no major objective targets to find a back door into Crimea, while within range of Russian Artillery from 2-3 sides and full air cover...hmmm gets my vote.
(You know the many of the people who write the articles some people quote here are written by people with no real military experience and can be considered as click bait).
If you want to counter Russian tactics with Russian tactics, then go ahead and lengthen the war and cause more loses.
This war will be won by All Arms Manoeuvre tactics, not some Operation Market Garden gamble.
As I said, it's just an idea, something to be looked at.
Your knowledge of the terrain on the Kinburn is lacking. There are roads and towns almost all the way to the tip, in fact the road does go to the tip.
If such a thing were done, it would be a race to the Kherson area where a span could allow heavy armor to join the fray. And the invasion force would have artillery cover all the way - from the mainland.
The idea can't be too crazy, the Russians have constructed fortifications out on the peninsula.
There are not many Orcs in the southern wilderness, that's all swamp, that could be mostly ignored.
And as jolihokistix suggests, making a feint of this sort of operation could draw off Russian resources.
Ukraine should be building those landing craft anyway, or at least making a show of it.