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Ukraine's Kharkhiv Operation and the Russian Military's Black Week

War on the Rocks

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Russian Strategy to Compensate for Its Manpower Deficit in Fires Overnight

i think larry was really good on the point of how the attritional phase made this manoeuvre possible in some ways. The russian military expended way too much man power in the early phase. And they also bled way toomuch man power during the war of atrician and some of their best trained man power should be saesfily. They spent a lot of their lead troops, and many of em, i think, turned out to be a lot less alit than we may have thought. It got into a place where ukraine could rally capitalize on its man power advantage,. together with equipment it had received from the west, and the ammunition. I would say

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