Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
Last time we talked tanks… This time we’ll focus on Russia’s winter offensive. If you don’t have time, just skip to the takeaways at the bottom of this post. credit Institute for the Study of War; I highly recommend ISW’s … Continue reading Wildly off-topic # 14 – the Russian “offense”
Read More...Last time we talked about weapons…how many each side had, what’s been lost, and the challenges in replacing those weapons. Today’s newsfeed arrived with the VERY welcome news that Germany has OK’ed supplying Leopard 2 tanks, and we will be … Continue reading Wildly off-topic #13 – Tanks.
Read More...Today’s the latest in a three-part update on Russia’s war on Ukraine – we covered military manpower and the motivation to fight before the holidays, today we finish with (a very brief) discussion of losses and supplies of materiel and … Continue reading Wildly off topic #12 – Ukraine has the edge in materiel, weapons, and logistics
Read More...Last night, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to both Houses of Congress, both parties, and all of us. He spoke eloquently and passionately, describing the suffering of his people and their total commitment to defeating Russia and reclaiming all Ukrainian … Continue reading Wildly off-topic #11 – the Will to Fight
Read More...It’s been four months since we talked about Ukraine, a period during which Russia put scores of thousands of poorly-equipped, pretty-much-untrained, and wholly incompetent civilian men into army uniforms (or facsimiles thereof) and fed them into the meat grinder that … Continue reading Wildly off-topic #10 – Manpower
Read More...After seven months of brutal, grinding war, Russia’s military is nearing collapse. The net – Russia is in deep trouble, so deep that its collapse may well lead to regime change. Ukraine has retaken over a thousand square miles of … Continue reading Wildly off-topic #9 – Russia’s military collapse
Read More...After more than six months of war that some were thinking was going to enter a stalemate, Ukraine flipped the tables on Russia. Ukrainian forces are driving Russians back in multiple areas, although this is a hard slog. Ukraine has … Continue reading Wildly off-topic #8 – Ukraine attacks
Read More...Time to check in on how our Ukrainian friends are doing… Last time we focused on strategy vs tactics…today we’ll cover why the Russians continue to do stupid stuff while the Ukrainians take full advantage of technology. How who follow … Continue reading Wildly off topic #7, do our part.
Read More...After what was a really awful/crappy/despair-inducing week, we divert into the most important story of the year – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Because the news there is actually kinda good. The dominant story line in the popular press is Ukraine is … Continue reading Wildly off topic #6…Strategy, not tactics
Read More...Putin is losing. The West is winning. Ukraine and Ukrainians are what we should aspire to be. There is no way Russia will “win” in Ukraine; Putin is running out of troops, ships, armor, money and time. Meanwhile his objectives … Continue reading Wildly off-topic 5…Russia is losing
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