@EliotACohen's leadership and intellectual honesty is refreshing! Assessment is hard and a balance. Honing briefers to facilitate conversation thru most dangerous and most likely to understand risk v consequences is a technique! Also helps assess who else is needed.
Its why I’ve got a chapter in #TheBigStick about why I (and many others) were wrong in our assessments of Iraq. Its why I don’t delete tweets just because I made a misjudgment. Its painful and salutary to stare at them and reflect. Just requires a bit of intellectual courage.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, today: "The Battle of Iwo Jima took 36 days. The Battle of the Bulge lasted 40 days. And Ukraine has now beaten back the Russian military for 62 days."
"Ukraine’s valor and skill will go down in military history," Austin said.
@EliotACohen This is an excellent example of offensive defense. Time for the treasury department to weaponize all frozen Russian assets for funding the war against then and reduce the burden of all countries. Another way to maximize national elements of power.
A Finnish general reacting to Putin’s threats if Finland joins NATO: “You are most welcome here to join the 200,000 Russians that are already in Finland buried a few meters in the ground after your last attempt in 1939."
https://t.co/0NZhrGfqKc via @bopinion
@MergeNewsletter The largest tank graveyard has been now assembled in Ukraine. Apparently the CPTPY is cheaper with the javelin missile in the hands of a trained and qued military.
So I started by reminding her that early in this fight I had predicted that the casualties incurred on a high-intensity, technology-heavy, conventional force battlefield would likely be significant...in the tens of thousands.
When I first said that, it was met with surprise. 2/
Russian population use of VPNs has exploded. Its a simple way to circumvent Putin's info lockdown as he continues to try and sell his war to the population.
If these published accounts by the @KyivIndependent are even close, they are disastrous. Having been the US 7th Army Commander, if I were the Russian Combined Arms Army Commander I’d be very worried right now. (Especially since one of the “boats” is a warship.)
@EliotACohen Historically, Russia turns to a punishment campaign. This will further polarize/isolate Russia. Indications of rules of engagement change are evident. The result = suffering. "Information age" impacts may deteriorate Russian internal will, but will not change operations.
Just posted our new #ShieldoftheRepublic podcast @BulwarkOnline. Eric Edelman and I discuss my colleague Seth Jones’ excellent new book, Three Dangerous Men. An important work on the shape of contemporary warfare. https://t.co/fzazy6D0fM. @csis_isp @SAISHopkins
My interview @CNN about the withdrawal from Afghanistan. On the Bush administration question, see my essay in @TheAtlantic. @SAISHopkins https://t.co/8lFUkj1cDS
40 miles of stand-off cargo delivery disposable #drone, at half the price of JPADS (GPS-guided parachutes). Umm, yes please.
#Silentarrow is an @AFWERX effort with @AFResearchLab and SOCOM.