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In another thread, I said russians win most of their war in history due to the fact they outnumbered their ennemy. It's an impression I get, but I might be wrong.
Let's talk about it here to not destroy the other thread.
I pick random war on wiki to check.
*Russo georgian war in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
More than 70 000 russians (+ air support + special troops + south ossetians and abkhaze force) VS less than 30 000 georgian troops (not all soldiers)
* Second chechenian wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War
around 80 000 russians soldiers VS 22 000 to 30 000 chechenians.
* First chechenian wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War
70 000 russians VS the numbers is differents according to the source, according to russians 20 000 to 40 000.
* Soviet-Afghan war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
115 000 soviets (+ 55 000 from afghan supports) VS 200 000 to 250 000 mujhadeens.
*Battle of Kursk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk
Soviet
Operation Citadel:
1,910,361 men[6]
5,128 tanks[6]
25,013 guns and mortars[3]
Soviet counteroffensive phase:
2,500,000 men[6]
7,360 tanks[6]
47,416 guns and mortars[4]
2,792[7][c] to 3,549[8][d] aircraft
Nazi
Operation Citadel:
780,900 men[2]
2,928 tanks[2]
9,966 guns and mortars[3]
Soviet counteroffensive phase:
940,900 men[2]
3,253 tanks[2]
9,467 guns and mortars[4]
2,110 aircraft[5]
In all most/all battle of the WWII after 1943, Soviet outnumbered nazis by a large amount of soldiers.
* Russo japanese war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
500 000 to 1 millions russians VS 300 000 to 500 000 japaneses
* Crimean war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
920 000 troops (French, Turks, Britishs) VS 700 000 russians
For this one russians were in inferiority numbers, but when we looks at causality, russians had twice more casualitys than others. Also crimean wars might not be a good exemple as most of the men die from sickness and not from battle.
* Russo- turkish war (1828-1829) Russo-Turkish War (1828–29)
100 000 russians VS 150 000 ottomans
Russians victory in inferiority numbers.
* French invasion of russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
685 000 frenchs (and allys) VS 900 000 russians
* Finnish war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_War
95 000 russians VS 36 000 swedishs
*Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-...56%E2%80%9358)
25 000 swedish soldiers (at the end) VS 42 000 - 45 000 russians soldiers
Of course I didn't made all the wars in history but I don't think, I randomly only fall on battle/war when russians were in numbers superiority.
But it give us an idea of the situation.
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