This is CBS I On The World.

Here's John Batchler.

The headline of the Washington Post is Stark.

US doubts Ukraine counteroffensive will yield big gains.

Leaked document says,

I welcome Colonel Jeff McCawson, United States Army retired.

Partilla ribbon, CBS news, Diamond Six leadership and strategy,

visiting professor Dickinson College.

The counteroffensive Jeff we've been speculating about for weeks on the basis of the arsenal

being transferred to Ukraine is now upon us in the nature of this headline that tells me

that something has gone very badly wrong.

This is leaked documents, but it also in the document suggests there's a debate ongoing

between the United States military and the Ukrainian military about capabilities.

I underlined one part in this Washington Post story that the US has doubts about training

and preparation.

Jeff, every operation that's ever been successful for the US military and I'll keep this to

the 20th century was the product of endless speculation, endless training so much so that

you fight like you're training you train like you fight this document says Ukrainians

are not ready or are they can we tell Jeff could even to you.

Good you John one thing we've learned in these documents is we probably can't tell because

we don't know as much about the Ukrainian forces that we'd like.

Some people the Pentagon have actually said we've known more about Russian planning and

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