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Bob's avatar

I love your articles and how thought provoking they are. I had not realized the inflation pressure issue involved here. To me it seems the Ukraine crisis is the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.

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Gabriel U.'s avatar

On what war in Ukraine would look like, I strongly recommend this talk by Philip Karber, a DC consultant, about the 2014-15 round. It starts with a short overview of Russian "hybrid warfare" that I didn't find very helpful (virus analogies, etc.), but at the 14:00 mark the talk turns to a truly fascinating discussion about the technical details of the fighting, such as multiple tracking of aircraft and the devastating deployment of on-call MLRS artillery.

War at an operational scale between near-peers in terms of technology is not something we are used to reading about in a Western context, dominated for so long by technical and strategic approaches to various counterinsurgencies, so I think this lecture is useful, if for nothing else, to begin to grasp the sheer complexity and destructiveness of modern "conventional war".

Clicking on link should start the video at the right place,

https://youtu.be/14LMmBsDw-g?t=838

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