New report by RUSI on mass precision strike and future development of UAS/UAVs. ⁦Jack Watling⁩ ⁦Justin Bronk⁩ rusi.org/explore-our-re…

New CNA report out on the Russian General Staff’s role in arms control by Anya Fink cna.org/reports/2024/0…

Very pleased to be publishing Mass Precision Strike: Designing UAV Complexes for Land Forces - co-authored with my colleague Justin Bronk at RUSI. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

The updated mobilization bill was passed on its second reading by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, today. The demobilization component was removed from the final bill.
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Part one of our discussion on drones in the Russia-Ukraine war is now available to everyone. War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/2024/04/mike-k…

From a battalion commander with Ukraine's 59th Motorized Brigade from 2 weeks ago,
'what is needed now are people...Because even young guys can’t stand to spend two years in the trenches, their health is not good enough. And in our army, the average age is probably 40-42.…

“The Russians have attacked Ukraine with around 3,500 such guided aerial bombs just this year, according to Ukrainian defence officials, a 16-fold increase over 2023.”

Military briefing: Russian ‘glide bombs’ pound Ukrainian troops and towns on.ft.com/3J75u8f

Video of FPV strikes by Ukraine’s 60th Mechanized Brigade on a Russian BTR-82AT and a T-72B3M obr 2022 tank with a large improvised EW system. The system reportedly was effectively countering a large number of FPVs operating with different frequencies before it was stopped.…

Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video yesterday with Apti Alaudinov the commander of Akhmat spetsnaz and Alexander 'Ratibor' Kuznetsov who led Wagner's 1st Assault Detachment. They say that Ratibor has agreed to join Akhmat with other former members of Wagner. Ratibor was the most…

Part 2 is out. Rob Lee and I continue our look at drones in the war. We dig into effectiveness, counters, emerging tactics, and how the technology is changing. War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/episode/therus…

Morozovsk Russian air forces airbase before and after the alleged Ukrainian drones attack. Both Planet LR images captured at the same time, around 11AM local time, on April 4th and April 5th.

Enjoyed this conversation with Amos Fox. We talk doctrine, attrition, maneuver, fire control, force structure, with nerdy deep dives into different subjects.

Latest Russia Contingency is out. This one focused on the drone aspects of the war. Rob Lee joins me for a deep dive into the evolution of the drone fight. War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/episode/therus…

Just wait till you see AI based peer review. I’m personally working the supervised learning process for Reviewer #2 comments.

New RMA podcast out - today a really fun conversation with Michael Kofman.

Attrition, Doodling Range Rings, and Magical Thinking in Modern War with Michael Kofman

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Be sure to check out Hal Brands’ new volume on Russia’s war against Ukraine, free to download at muse.jhu.edu/book/122782. Contributors include Lawrence Freedman Anne Applebaum Michael McFaul Michael Kofman Brian Hart Kori Schake 🌻🇺🇦 @kschake.bsky.social Dara Massicot Michael Kimmage Andrea Kendall-Taylor Mark Leonard Daniel W. Drezner and…

Photo from Ukraine's 25th Airborne Brigade of damaged/abandoned Russian armor.
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Two Russian UGVs armed with AGS-17 grenade launchers on the Avdiivka front.
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