Ukraine: The Counter Offensive Explained

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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After months of preparation, speculation, and planning, the Ukrainian counteroffensive has finally begun. With battles underway across the country, there are mixed reviews on how well the offensive is going for the Ukrainian army. Despite months of shaping operations and preparations, some critics are calling it a failure, with progress stalling, while others are saying it's on track for a Ukrainian victory. So what's actually happening in Ukraine at the moment?

In this episode, James welcomes Dr. Mike Martin, a former officer of the British Army and a visiting Fellow at King's College, to help decipher the ongoing events in Ukraine. Looking at the tactics involved in creating a successful counteroffensive, the role of shaping operations and preparations, and how the upcoming US Election might influence the war's outcome - is it possible to predict what will happen in the coming months, and will there ever be an end in sight?

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0:00.0	The Ukrainian counter-offensive has begun.
0:04.0	First came the shaping operations to weaken Russian military power,
0:08.0	and now the battles are underway.
0:09.0	Yet with some reports saying that the counter-offensive is stalling and a failure and others saying it's right on track,
0:15.4	what is actually the state of the war in Ukraine today?
0:19.1	I'm your host, James Patton Rogers, this is warfare, and as you know on this podcast we've covered
0:23.4	Russia's offensive war against Ukraine from the very start placing it into its
0:27.9	historical context back to the 1800s and analyzing the latest developments in war
0:32.4	from sieages to drones.
0:34.0	It's for this reason I wanted to bring our coverage up to date by inviting Dr Mike Martin onto the
0:39.6	podcast. Mike is a former officer in the British Army and a senior visiting fellow within war studies at King's College London.
0:46.0	He's become a leading voice on the conflict and is the author of a new book, How to Fight a War.
0:51.0	Put simply, Mike is the ideal person to take us through the latest developments
0:55.6	and to outline what to expect next in the coming weeks in Ukraine. Hi Mike welcome to warfare how you doing I'm How are you? I expect you to be incredibly busy at this moment in time. A counter-offensive has begun in the war in Ukraine and you have most certainly become the UK's leading expert on this conflict and what I say is
1:25.1	you know someone that the public turned to to find answers to what is exactly going on is it a busy time right now
1:32.1	there have been one or two media requests, but nothing out of the ordinary.
1:37.0	Nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing out of the ordinary.
1:38.0	Well, thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us today.
1:41.0	Perhaps you can give us a little bit about your background yourself. Of course, you are former
1:45.2	military yourself. I know that you're currently running for a member of parliament with the Liberal Democrats as well,
1:49.7	but what's your military background, Mike? So I spent six years in the British Army
1:54.6	and I was a political officer.
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