Adaptation at the Front and the Big Picture in Ukraine

War on the Rocks

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ryan and Mike Kofman discuss the state of the war before turning to various other issues including important tactical adaptations since the start of summer, why Washington's theory of its involvement in this war is fundamentally "unworkable" due to a lack of military observers in country, the various meanings of "stalemate," and the big picture for next year.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on Strategy, Defense and Foreign Affairs.
0:13.9	My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of War on the Rocks, and in this episode I sat down with
0:17.4	Michael Kaufman to talk about the war in Ukraine.
0:20.0	But before Mike and I get started, I want to tell you about a new is show, a new podcast, called
0:25.6	All Quiet on the Second Front.
0:28.0	In this show, Second Front System, CEO Tyler Sweat cuts through the noise around all things defense tech. I just
0:34.5	listened to episode 31 featuring Matthew Zimmerman and John Wargo of Beast Code and I
0:38.8	really enjoyed it. I think you will too especially if you care about cyber security how the government can buy new and innovative technology and the promise and peril of that
0:47.5	So definitely check it out at secondfront.com slash podcasts or on your podcast app of choice and I'd like to thank Second Front systems and all quiet on the second front for supporting this episode of the War on the Rocks podcast.
0:59.0	Mike, great to have you back on the show.
1:01.0	Yeah, great to be back.
1:02.0	So as listeners of the Russia Contingency, our members... to have you back on the show. Yeah, great to be back.
1:03.0	So as listeners of the Russia Contingency, our members' podcast that you host, no, you just
1:07.3	came back from Ukraine pretty recently.
1:09.2	You were there with our friends Rob Lee, Conrad Musicott, and Franz Stephan Geouti, and this was your third trip, fourth trip?
1:16.4	This is my fourth trip over the course of the last year.
1:19.6	Our first one was a year ago that I went on.
1:21.8	What's happening now in the war?
1:23.2	Let's start in the south.
1:24.6	I think it's fair to say that the offensive in the south, at least the main effort
1:29.2	there, has culminated and probably culminated sometime around end of September, early October.
1:35.0	Ukrainian units are still trying to advance in small groups
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