Category Archives: The Military Art

Tu-22 Backfire Destroyed In Drone Strike Deep Inside Russia

Posted on August 21, 2023 by TTG

Soltsy-2 airbase, which is home to Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire swing-wing bombers, was hit by a drone strike yesterday. Images of black smoking billowing from the base further solidified those reports, but it wasn’t clear what was burning. Now, photos have … Continue reading →

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Colonel Shuvalov on the effect of the Ukrainian cluster munitions

Posted on August 18, 2023 by TTG

“And again about cluster munitions. It’s hard for me to understand why we need to manipulate statistics if the response we’re getting for showing off results in collossal, real difficulites. I already wrote about cluster munitions before – https://t.me/shouvalov/20. Basically, … Continue reading →

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The bridgehead at Kozachi Laheri

Posted on August 10, 2023 by TTG

1. New Dnipro River thread/Kozachi Laheri landings. Russian Telegram channels report today that UAF landed at Kozachi Laheri with ongoing fighting. Some inform on UAF ‘presence’ west of the village. https://t.me/romanov_92/41081 gives a specific location at 46.707197, 32.946664. 2. Russian … Continue reading →

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FAFO

Posted on August 5, 2023 by TTG

Statement of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine The Russian Federation has once again brutally violated the universal right to free navigation for the whole world and is deliberately undermining food security, condemning millions of people to starvation. By openly … Continue reading →

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USSPACECOM to remain at Peterson Space Force Base

Posted on August 1, 2023 by TTG

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama and ending months of politically fueled debate, according to senior U.S. officials. … Continue reading →

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Russian and Ukrainian strategic targeting

Posted on July 31, 2023 by TTG

From Tom Cooper on 28 July 2023: Finally, something based on ‘lots of deduction’, and over which there is a big question mark… and then something I guess is going to be taken as ‘bad news’ by many. The latest … Continue reading →

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Notes from an analyst

Posted on July 22, 2023 by TTG

Franz-Stefan Gady is a conflict journalist and military analyst with experience embedding with NATO forces, Kurdish militias, and the (former) Afghan national army. He just spent time at the front in Ukraine with prominent (on Twitter) military analysts Michael Koffman … Continue reading →

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Thomas Theiner on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive

Posted on July 6, 2023 by TTG

In Germany @derspiegel, @welt, @ntvde and in Austria @derStandardat write that “the Ukrainian Offensive has failed”. That is wild nonsense. This nonsense happens, because all of them interviewed the same expert, who doesn’t understand Ukraine’s Offensive phases, of which there … Continue reading →

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“The Jayhawker and the Conductor: The Combahee Ferry Raid, 2 June 1863”

Posted on June 3, 2023 by TTG

This is an excerpt from an article by James Stejskal about the Combahee Ferry raid and the USCT campaign preceding that raid written for the Army Historical Foundation. A while ago I wrote about one of his earlier books, Special … Continue reading →

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Trent Telenko on Ukrainian Drones

Posted on May 31, 2023 by TTG

In the last few hours Ukraine has struck the posh Moscow neighborhood where Russian oligarchs live with what looks like a converted Foxtech REX 340 Canard VTOL/compound helicopter drone. You can buy a Chinese Foxtech REX 340 online for $42K … Continue reading →

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