Mick Ryan sin substack konto har mange fine artikler. Den siste er en refleksjon etter 600 dager med krig, (eller 3525 dager om du regner fra 2014). Han tar seg også tid til å se fremover, og se på lærings/forbedringspunkt. Vesten/NATO har litt å ta tak i.
"There was a significant intellectual failure by NATO and the west in the past nine months. Not only were we unable to make the case to get more support for Ukraine to exploit their gains at the end of 2022, but the collective training preparation in the lead up to 2023 was obsolete. Despite having 18 months to learn about enhanced battlefield transparency, digital C2 and a closing of the detection to destruction gap, and six months to
examine Russia building defences, we insisted on training the Ukrainians in 1980s combined arms doctrine with even older obstacle reduction technologies in lower volumes than the old doctrine recommended.
We need to undertake a program of intellectual rejuvenation to help Ukraine and to evolve western military institutions to enhance their effectiveness on the contemporary battlefield.
At the political level, politicians and policy advisers were too slow to provide the military wherewithal to Ukraine that might have allowed it to exploit its Kharkiv and Kherson victories of late 2022. As a result, the Russians were provided with the breathing space to reconstitute forces, deploy mobilized troops, and build the robust defences in the south that have slowed the Ukrainian southern offensive. There is an opportunity now to review decision making in order to increase its quality and speed in order to better support Ukraine, as well as other nations such as Israel and Taiwan."
Ukraine and the Long War
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