Western training manuals update too slowly to properly prepare Ukrainian troops for a fast-changing battlefield, commander says
Ukrainian soldiers are training to fight Russia's invasion at a camp in Poland. Synne Nilsson / Forsvaret Ukrainian troops are training on NATO soil for war with Russia. Battlefield tactics and technology change faster than Western training systems are used to. Ukrainian feedback helps keep the training current when annual manuals are "just too slow." Western militaries training Ukrainian troops for war with Russia can't rely on the usual cycle of periodically updated manuals because battlefield lessons are changing too quickly, a NATO commander told Business Insider. Norway is leading multinational training for Ukrainian troops at Camp Jomsborg, a purpose-built camp in eastern Poland, as part of Operation Legio. The training needs constant updates about the tactics and weaponry that work on the rapidly changing battlefield, Brigadier Atle Molde, the commander of Task Force Legio, told Business Insider. "You cannot do that based on bureaucratic training manuals issued once a year or stuff like that," Molde said. "It's just too slow." The work happening in Poland "all comes down to being relevant for the sake of saving lives and helping the Ukrainians win this war," he said. That me
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Western training manuals update too slowly to properly prepare Ukrainian troops for a fast-changing battlefield, commander says
Ukrainian soldiers are training to fight Russia's invasion at a camp in Poland. Synne Nilsson / Forsvaret Ukrainian troops are training on NATO soil for war with Russia. Battlefield tactics and technology change faster than Western training systems are used to. Ukrainian feedback helps keep the training current when annual manuals are "just too slow." Western militaries training Ukrainian troops for war with Russia can't rely on the usual cycle of periodically updated manuals because battlefield lessons are changing too quickly, a NATO commander told Business Insider. Norway is leading multinational training for Ukrainian troops at Camp Jomsborg, a purpose-built camp in eastern Poland, as part of Operation Legio. The training needs constant updates about the tactics and weaponry that work on the rapidly changing battlefield, Brigadier Atle Molde, the commander of Task Force Legio, told Business Insider. "You cannot do that based on bureaucratic training manuals issued once a year or stuff like that," Molde said. "It's just too slow." The work happening in Poland "all comes down to being relevant for the sake of saving lives and helping the Ukrainians win this war," he said. That me
