Testing Assumptions About the War in Ukraine

2Q23 Ukraine 1 Year On: The State of Our Assumptions

To mark the passing of a year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent return of high intensity conflict to Europe, ...

Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shattered numerous assumptions about the drivers of Russian foreign policy, posing a ...

Putin's War in Ukraine: Alternative Russian Futures, Assumptions ...

Ukraine's supply lines are stretched, and time is needed to consolidate and defend territory retaken, allowing Russia time to stabilize its ...

One Year of War in Ukraine - War on the Rocks

How did we get here? What key assumptions have been tested? And what does that mean for the future? How do U.S. and Ukrainian interests in this ...

Kelley B. Vlahos on X: "New @emmaashford @StimsonCenter tests ...

New @emmaashford @StimsonCenter tests 10 assumptions about the war in Ukraine and nails it. Must read here: https://t.co/ukEOTAFBqJ.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine invalidates key international relations ...

For decades, one of the central tenets in elite foreign policy circles held that a large-scale war between Russia and Western countries in ...

Think Tank reports on Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

It states that Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has been a great social shock, affecting emotional states, everyday lives and routines, public opinion, ...

9 big questions about Russia's war in Ukraine, answered | Vox

As the war has progressed, the widely predicted Russian victory has failed to emerge as Ukrainian fighters have repeatedly fended off attacks ...

The Russo-Ukrainian War: Implications for Taiwan

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has so far been an undeniable failure for President Vladimir Putin. ... The determined and organized Ukrainian ...

Russias War in Ukraine - Marine Corps University

The success of an invasion is determined largely by the relative strength of the opposing armed forces and by the strategy and tactics employed by those forces.

Wargaming—Testing Assumptions and Assessing Plans - Calian

Wargaming in the near-term should integrate some key lessons learned from the war in Ukraine to ensure that NATO is examining its own assumptions and ...

Offensive ideas: structural realism, classical realism and Putin's war ...

Mearsheimer wrote the definitive textbook on offensive realism. However, it has been questioned how well his analysis of the Ukraine crisis ...

Possible Assumptions Useful for Gaming the First Year of the ...

Predictions and expectations about the outcome of the war in the Ukraine have been fraught with peril. The initial invasion triggered fears ...

Chapter Six The Russia-Ukraine War Military Operations and ...

The central organizing Russian assumption was that Ukraine would collapse quickly and that a demonstrative strike campaign, a cheaper version of ...

After Bucha, the West Must Revisit Its Assumptions - Carnegie Europe

Policymakers should increase their support for Ukraine and reassess the nature of this war. Putin may be consolidating a totalitarian regime ...

America's Stark Choice in Ukraine and the Cost of Letting Russia Win

The current US debate about providing additional military assistance to Ukraine is based in part on the assumption that the war will remain ...

Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia's ...

Chapter II sets out Ukraine's capabilities, assumptions ... Russian Military Operafions in Southeastern Ukraine Imminent', Insfitute for the Study ...

A “Long War in Ukraine”: Making Assumptions and Ignoring Key ...

As the war in Ukraine continues, significant risks face the West. One can admire the courage of the Ukrainians, but that does not simply ...

How Does the War in Ukraine End? | Foreign Affairs

Such a scenario is now off the table, thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin's faulty assumptions, the courage of Ukrainian President ...

The Assumptions About Ukraine Were Wrong. We Need New ...

More than 50 days into the conflict, U.S. defense officials believe that roughly one-fifth of the forces Russia brought to bear in Ukraine ...