Does it really change the outcome of the war? Does a country fall when the capital city is captured?
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It used to be that capital cities were there basis for government and militaries because it had to be. Now this is not the case. With air and ground transport being easily available, they way to cripple a main ink submission is destroy infrastructure so resistance can’t happen and individual key positions can be taken and held independently to starve resistance. But conquering a government is the easy part. It’s holding out against resistance and gaining complete control that’s the hard part.
In Ukraine, capturing and dismantling the government is the way part and Russia never even made it that far. Had they succeeded, rather would have had to deal with actual resistance as civilians refused to cooperate and insurgents would have taken over.
Everybody jokes about France rolling over for the Germans, but France had a HUGE domestic resistance that was a key asset in the Allies reclaiming France. Contrary to popular belief, France does not have a history of cowering to tyranny. They burn down their cities every couple of years with their own politicians in them; they do more with foreign leaders in them.
Capturing the capital is more of a video game/fantasy trope than it is a reality. All it does is pisses people off.
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