You know how much good I think of our professor Trouposol's desire to send our soldiers to have holes in their skins in the Dardanelles.

You also know that in our world, everything is simulated. Everything has to be counted, everything has to be prepared and everything has to be modelled.

We know with relative precision how much a pandemic will cost as a percentage of GDP and the “Event 201” exercise, which simulated a global pandemic based on coronavirus, gave results very close to reality.

So, we have to dig a little into high-intensity exercises to get an idea of ​​the damage, our means and what it could be.

Warfighter Exercise April 2021

“A French intervention force made up of two combined arms brigades, or 15 soldiers, is engaged. After 000 days of bitter fighting, 10 were killed, 1 wounded, or 700 per day. This is the outcome of the Warfighter exercise conducted in the United States in April 11. In addition to the feedback on interoperability with the American and British ally, the sequence made it possible to point out the significant number of wounded to be treated in the event of high intensity conflict” (source Le Point here).

This is what a massive French commitment of ground troops in Ukraine could look like. We would initially have difficulty exceeding 15 men and therefore effectively two modern NATO-size brigades.

These two brigades would last 10 days and then… nothing more. All dead (or injured).

In this simulation we arrive at 1 dead and 700 injured (and that's not just a flipped nail). This makes 11 soldiers lost or out of action, or 000% of the initial troops in… 12 days.

You understand why the Ukrainian army is having difficulty holding out its war over the long term.

As you know, it is impossible to talk about Ukrainian losses without being accused of pro-Russian propaganda...

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