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Category Archives: Ukraine Crisis
The battle for Ocheretyne
The 47th Mechanized Brigade is one of the Ukrainian army’s best brigades. Equipped with American-made armored vehicles and trained to NATO standards, it fights like the best NATO brigades fight: swiftly, violently and often at night. But this prowess is … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
On Thursday [11 April], President Gitanas Nausėda chaired the plenary session of the ninth summit of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) in Vilnius. In his address, the President stressed that the current geopolitical situation has given the Three Seas Initiative … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Russia’s ongoing strike campaign against Ukrainian energy facilities aims in part to devastate the Ukrainian defense industry, confirming ISW’s ongoing assessment that Russian strikes against Ukrainian energy facilities aim to degrade Ukrainian defense industrial … Continue reading
Posted in Russia, The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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The situation and some possible courses of action … A Pat Lang post reposted from 26 February 2022
Reviewing the situation: The Russian Army has an active force of about 400,000. Half of those are draftees, conscripts if you like that term better. Between 150,000 and 200,000 have been committed to the Ukraine “project” by Putin and Company. … Continue reading
Posted in TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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HARPER: COL. W. PATRICK LANG R.I.P.
It is hard to believe that one year has passed since our founder Col. Pat Lang, a voice of reason in these troubled times, passed away. We can only imagine what kinds of wisdom would have been forthcoming from his … Continue reading
Posted in Ukraine Crisis
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The Russians have Won And We Will All Be Better For It Opinion By Walrus.
Remember when this latest war started? Our esteemed leadership here and probably elsewhere told us that the Russians would lose because they were tactically backward, corrupt, led by incompetents and technically unsophisticated. They would be no match for the technically … Continue reading
Posted in Ukraine Crisis, Walrus
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More provocation. An attack on a Moscow concert hall and mall by several persons has produced many casualties.
By Robert Willmann As if indiscriminate violence has not been enough starting at the Mediterranean Sea and going through Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and then up into Ukraine. Now an attack on a civilian entertainment and mall area in … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Europe, Middle East, Policy, Politics, Russia, Ukraine Crisis
Tagged Attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow
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“How the Czech Republic has just stopped Putin cold and saved Ukraine”
Russia went to war in Ukraine two years ago with twice as many artillery pieces as Ukraine had. But it isn’t the advantage in howitzers that really matters – it’s the advantage in shells. After all, a single gun firing … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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“Putin’s arms shipments no longer dare enter the Black Sea. Russia is losing the logistic war”
Navies spend more time (ideally) preventing conflict in the first place, but if that fails, the big effort is protecting their own side’s logistics and/or denying the enemy theirs. History is littered with examples of combatants who overreached their supply … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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Aleksandar on the French General Staff Assessment
Someone leaked French Joint Staff assessment to a French newspaper.Nothing new for most of us, ukraine can’t win and in fact is weaker and weaker. “The situation looks exceedingly bleak for Ukraine, which might in part explain Macron’s recent declarations … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
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