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Ep 335: A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Invisible Elements of Modern Warfare

Russian forces have sustained more casualties in the last 16 months than in 10 years of war in Afghanistan or two campaigns in Chechnya. A lot of these people have been forcibly conscripted. They don't even want to frickin fight. So this is all the invisible stuff where I keep on saying, military might is in the mind. It's not in counting tanks and guns. It's about the people. The Western way of war has become this hyper-empowered wars of mobility and cleverness. Today there is an amazing warrior ethos that has come together in America through the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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