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Lyman Debacle: NATO is Really Bad at Maneuver Warfare

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NATO has a problem; it’s a “defensive military alliance” designed for conventional warfare, but the one thing they’re consistently really, really bad at is… conventional warfare. Ukrainian soldiers supported by NATO HIMARS, intelligence, battle planning, and leadership, set out to encircle a much smaller force of Russians, waded through artillery fire for days, then failed to close the fourth side, allowing everyone inside the cauldron to quietly escape. Let’s take a look at what happened.

Soviet Deep Battle and OODA Loops in the Ukraine

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Who is it? Americans. Stonetoss

A reader sent me this interesting story about Winter-20, a large tabletop exercise in Poland to simulate a Russian invasion. The setup and its outcome were both interesting. Poland started the wargame with large advantages, namely, a futuristic arsenal of F-35s and souped-up Leopard tanks that doesn’t exist, and might never exist at all. Despite this edge, they lost badly. The pro-Russia crowd was of course very happy with this outcome. I dislike the idea and think it paints a very wrong picture, and here’s why.

Winning the information war in Ukraine

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winning the information war in ukraine

This article is the next entry in my series Why Russia is Not Losing the Information War. The West has undeniably generated far more disinformation than Russia. As I have observed previously, this is likely the single biggest disinformation campaign in history. But generating more noise isn’t the same as winning, is it? Anti-NATO outlets … Read more

#CancelRussia and the Rise of Global Nazism

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Biden tough on Putin

Remember all of those people who wore masks for the past two years and called for all unvaccinated humans to be rounded up into camps? Well surprise, surprise, nazism is back in vogue and they don’t need to use euphemisms anymore. Dostoevsky canceled, Yuri Gagarin canceled… the University of Florida even canceled Karl Marx (Is … Read more