Russia-Ukraine Update

My latest at 1945 is the first of a three part series on early lessons from the war. First part, the ground war:

The Ukraine War on the Ground: It is difficult to learn the right lessons from the wars of the past. It is harder still to operationalize those takeaways in any kind of useful way. It is certainly risky, then, to look for lessons about war from a conflict that is still ongoing, but we are going to try.

In this three-part series, we will endeavor to distill some lessons from the conduct of the Russia-Ukraine War to this point.

In this first part of a three-part series (you can read part II here), we will discuss the ground war in Ukraine. 

Some other general stuff…

• Make sure to read Stephen Biddle on maneuver warfare.
• This is an excellent long read on the air war thus far, correcting a number of misunderstandings from the earliest days of the conflict.
• The bloody battle for Bakhmut.
• Why Ukraine is stuck with Elon, for now.
• On designating Russia a State Sponsor of Terror for, well, conducting a campaign of terror bombing.
• Local government on the front line.