Lawfare Archive: What Ukraine Tells Us About the Future of War
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🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
From August 2, 2023: Over the past eighteen months, Ukraine has served as the stage for a proxy battle between superpowers, with the invading Russians on one side and a U.S.-led coalition of Western allies backing Ukraine on the other. As such, it’s the closest thing we’ve yet seen to what many military strategists believe will be the defining challenge of the next strategic era: a near-peer conflict between two or more technologically sophisticated major powers. In this way, the conflict has served as a canary in the coal mine for new military trends, tactics, and technologies that may soon be brought to bear against the West (or by it).
Last month, Shashank Joshi, the Defence Editor for The Economist, published a special report in The Economist outlining what lessons military leaders in the West are taking away from the Ukraine conflict as they prepare their own militaries for their next fight. He sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson to talk over his findings and what Ukraine can tell us about the future of war.
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| 1:13.6 | C.c. UK for terms. I'm Julian Berman, intern at Law Fair with an episode from the Law Fair Archive for August 18th, |
| 1:36.4 | 2024. |
| 1:38.1 | This week, Ukraine pressed ahead with its assault inside Russian territory, continuing the largest foreign incursion into the country since World War II. |
| 1:46.0 | The assault, powered by Western arms, took Russia by surprise, and Ukrainian forces have managed to successfully claim control of dozens of towns and villages in the Kursk region. |
| 1:56.0 | For today's archive episode, I chose a conversation from the Law Fair Podcast that aired on August 3rd, 2023. |
| 2:04.0 | In the episode, Scott Anderson spoke with Shishank Joshi about the lessons Western military |
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