After Bakhmut

Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power. What comes next?

By Douglas MACGREGOR

Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle … Read more...

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Ukraine’s “Invasion” of Russia: Another Humiliation for Moscow

The Russian Federation proved to be incapable not only of defeating Ukraine, but also of protecting its own territory. Shortly after the nine-month battle for the small and strategically insignificant city of Bakhmut effectively came to an end, Ukraine-backed anti-Kremlin forces captured portions of Russia’s Belgorod region.

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