How Russia learned from mistakes to slow Ukraine's counteroffensive
Three months into Ukraine’s inching counteroffensive, Russian occupying forces have mostly held their positions, in large part by learning from past mistakes.
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Three months into Ukraine’s inching counteroffensive, Russian occupying forces have mostly held their positions, in large part by learning from past mistakes.
Since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time, Russia’s nuclear threats have been stark and consistent. If the war continues, Russia says, Ukraine and the West risk escalation to nuclear conflict. The Russian state, Putin and other Russian leaders argue, faces an existential threat. In October, the Russian government released pictures of President Putin overseeing a training launch of both ballistic and cruise missiles as a part of a major nuclear response.
Russian generals have been active on Ukrainian battlefields, but their role and US generals' role are "apples to oranges," a US official said Monday.
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Executive Summary Russia’s General Staff has long-established interests in the analysis of developments in the means and methods of military conflict. In the early Soviet era, military theory, far from being purely academic, proved decisive in shaping the successful defense and survival of the Soviet Union from the onslaught of the invading Nazi German Wehrmacht. In latter decades, several Soviet …