Read previewAn American veteran who fought in Ukraine said the US military spent so long focused on fighting insurgents that it forgot "what it means to actually fight a war."
Libkos/Getty Images"We've gotten so used to the idea of just fighting guerilla wars and fucking fighting terrorists and everything else that we kind of forgot what it means to actually fight a war," he said.
Some Ukrainian soldiers trained abroad said the training they received was not suited to the kind of fighting needed for this war.
Ukraine is fighting in conditions very different from what the US and its NATO allies have fought through in recent decades.
He said that fighting to clear Russian trenches made him feel like he was "fighting World War I."
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