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Analysis by the esteemed Professor Edward Luttwak the Ukraine Conflict.
"Tactical incompetence doomed it from the start"
BY EDWARD LUTTWAK April 11, 2022.
"Professor Edward Luttwak is a strategist and historian known for his works on grand strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations."
"Nothing was more predictable about this most predictable of wars than the certain failure of Putin’s Coup de Main invasion to seize Kyiv and conquer Ukraine in one fell swoop. And yet its success was confidently predicted by Russia’s FSB domestic security service, which, instead of the SVR foreign intelligence, was given the task of sustaining the fiction that Ukraine is Russian."
"Coup de main: A coup de main is a swift attack that relies on speed and surprise to accomplish its objectives in a single blow."
A TWO TO THREE DAY WAR, A PUPPET REGIME ESTABLISHED IN KIEV, OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED!
"Perhaps it is not strange that Putin, himself a former FSB officer, did not question this reckless optimism. He knew that the CIA fully agreed with the FSB estimate, as did the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BDN) and the French Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM)."
EVERY MAJOR INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OF REPUTE IN AGREEMENT THE UKRAINE CONFLICT WAS GOING TO BE AN EASY [?] RUSSIAN VICTORY?
I would suggest far beyond mere "tactical incompetence" to blame for up-to-this-point apparent Russian failure. More than anything else Russian "fizzle" based on faulty assessments of the Ukrainian military. Outgunned Ukrainian troops with a stand-your-ground attitude a MAJOR unanticipated factor!
Devoted readers to the blog are strongly encouraged to read the entire Luttwak article!
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