AI on the Battlefield: Lessons from Ukraine
In the first phase of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the focus was on hardware – the natural reflex being to counter mass with more mass. Ukraine...
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Portrait of Ukrainian Advances.
3rd Separate Assault Brigade (3 OShBr) is one the most successful brigades in the Ukrainian Army. Since the beginning of May it has advanced about...
Orcs or Dorks? Its time to change the narrative.
Within a few days of the February 2022 invasion, most Ukrainians were calling Russian troops orcs. It evoked a simple, powerful image of an evil...
Drones and the Close Battle
This year the Ukrainian MOD intends to procure 200,000 drones. That statement should make defence ministries pause and reflect. It is not evident this is...
Tactical Lessons: The Battle at Orikhiv
Has the Ukrainian counter-offensive started? We don’t know at the time of writing. Contradictory statements are being made. The Kremlin, keen to point to the...
Everything is going according to plan
The Russian president routinely asserts the ‘special military operation’ is ‘going according to plan.’ To Western ears, the declaration is ridiculous. But Putin is...
The Russian Army rethinks defence doctrine
The April edition of the Russian Army’s house journal Voennaia mysl’ (‘Military Collection’) included an article entitled ‘Prospects for Improving the Efficiency of Army Defensive...
1,500 new and modernised tanks – really?
In the last week of March 2023 the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, travelled to the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant to chair a meeting...
Rise of the Rocket Launcher 2: Lessons from Ukraine
It’s been over a year since the release of ‘Rise of the Rocket Launcher: End of the Armored Division’. The premise of the argument was...
Aeroflot to cut half its fleet as sanctions bite
On 9 February 2023 President Putin addressed an audience of representatives from the civil airline industry on the occasion marking 100 years of domestic air...