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Ukraine’s partners, led by the United States and spread over the globe, have increasingly responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of February 2022 with a dizzying array of financial, humanitarian, and military assistance. Unfortunately, the way in which the U.S. and Ukraine’s other partners have provided military assistance over the last year — that is, by delivering a wide range of equipment, ammunition, and training — significantly undermines the longer-term objective of developing a sustainable system via which Ukraine can generate combat power in the coming years to overcome Ru...

The difficulty of quickly providing mechanized and armored equipment to Ukraine, training Ukraine to employ this equipment in combined arms operations, and ensuring Ukraine can maintain and sustain combat power should not be underestimated. As the examples of Turkey's 2016 military operation in Syria and the U.S. operation in Fallujah in 2004 illustrate, dislodging Russia from its prepared defensive positions will be a daunting task for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Jeff Jager, a retired U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer (FAO), served in a variety of strategic defense diplomacy roles in Europe and the Middle East. His last assignment was as the senior military advisor in the Office of Euro-Atlantic Security Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he provided a broad range of military advice regarding conventional arms control policy to the Assistant Secretary and managed inter-agency and international coordination and consensus building. Prior to this assignment, Jeff served at the U.S.