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What the Experts Got Wrong (and Right) About Russian Military Power

War on the Rocks

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What Do You Think About the Russians?

There was a huge jump in knowledge from the 20 14 to the 20 18 time period when we got the first inklings of russian rivanchism, at least in the penagon. It wasn't until russia had actually moved into crimea and eastern ukraine that you suddenly had everybodyin thepentagon with the ar on firesang. And frankly, it was drawing in the work of people like mike and dero told us, ok, yes, the russians have a great deal of artillery, but we don't know that they can employ that artillery in an operationally relevant way. We also think ther re oing to be logistical shortcomings in anything approaching

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