After using KORA-based simulation, NATO trainers knowingly sent Ukrainian troops to their deaths.
Ukrainian military personnel training on German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks at San Gregorio in Zaragoza, Spain on March 13, 2023 © OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP
Ukraine sent one of its best brigades into combat earlier this month as part of its long-awaited counteroffensive aimed at retaking areas controlled by Russian forces.
Leading the charge near the town of Orekhov, in Zaporozhye Region, was the 47th Mechanized Brigade, armed with NATO equipment and – most importantly – employing it using the US-led bloc's combined arms doctrine and tactics. Prior to the operation, this brigade spent months at a base in Germany learning “Western know-how” in combined-arms warfare.
Helping them prepare for the fighting to come was KORA, the German-made NATO computer simulation system, designed to allow officers and non-commissioned officers to closely replicate battlefield conditions and, in doing...
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