Ukraine: The Counter Offensive Explained
Warfare
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The Ukraine's Shaped Operation
All warfare is based on deception, or successful warfare isbased on deception. You want to increase the level of ambiguity that your enemy's feeling because that gives them lots of dilemmas. D-Day was a class example, we very clearly signaled to the Germans that the Padakale was going to be the area of the assault. And it was so successful that even a couple of days into the Normandy operation, the Germans were still sending reinforcements to the Calais area. So that's exactly what the Ukrainians are doing this week - they're kind of doing a whole bunch of things in your shaping operations.
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