Mick Ryan, AM

Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | @CSIS | Senior Fellow for Military Studies @LowyInstitute | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

It has been over 4 years since I published my first book, “War Transformed”. I will always be grateful to @USNIBooks for taking a chance on this first time author. In 2024, they also published “The War for Ukraine”. More news very soon on my next book.

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

@HucknLeberry @NMAsiaPac @AmbVasyl Me too.

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

Good on you @AmbVasyl for standing up for what is right…while Russians murder, loot, rape and torture their way through Ukraine and seek its total extinction.

[Vasyl Myroshnychenko @AmbVasyl]

Guess what? Ukraine is accused of promoting Russophobia. Believe it or not 

Read a story by @KnottMatthew in the @smh

https://t.co/jtftZvt1qf

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

12/ But winning wars demands an array of different tactical, operational, strategic and national competencies. And conditions vary between different theatres. Lethality matters - but so too does sustaining national purpose and will, defending strategic infrastructure, winning the battle of narratives and sustaining support from allies. Western governments and military institutions must be able to emulate Ukraine’s battlespace lethality for their own conditions - and ensure this is cleverly integrated into wider national war strategies. End

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

This is one measure of the growing effectiveness of the Ukrainian military over the past year. That Ukraine has also almost halted Russian ground advances, and imposed a 1.4:1 killed:wounded ratio on the Russians shows that Ukraine may have developed the most effective, lethal military force in modern history. This is why Putin needs Trump, Kushner and Witkoff to help him. What does this mean? 1/12 🇺🇦 🧵

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

11/ The ability to kill large numbers of the enemy, and do so in a way that is disproportionate to one’s own casualties, is an important measure of military effectiveness at the tactical and operational levels. It always has been. Ukraine has shown the way to do this in the 21st century, and it is now perhaps one of the most lethal military institutions in history.

[Luke Harding @lukeharding1968]

We were on the scene minutes after a Russian drone slammed into a hospital last night in central Kyiv. I found a burning building, dazed patients & firefighters. The attack came after Ukraine reported that @SpaceX had again throttled the Starshield system https://t.co/BHwc0Oiuma

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

@NMAsiaPac @AmbVasyl He really is!

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

The presence of russian troops on Ukrainian territory is unacceptable.

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

My take on the Abu Dhabi negotiations: These talks are a dangerous farce. If the Trump administration actually wants to end the war, it should do the very thing that it refuses to do—ramp up support for Ukraine and put pressure on Russia. https://t.co/1PXNFPib9b

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

@Mpolymer @lrozen It is a brilliant book. I recently re-read it and loved it even more than the first time I read it. De Mille’s pre-John Corey era books were fabulous (Word of Honor, By the Rivers of Babylon, etc). But I also love the Corey books too!

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

"Technological advances alone are insufficient without commensurate organisational adaptation. Ukraine’s case shows the potential, and urgency, of such reform." Organisational Evolution & Strategic Adaptation: Restructuring Military Forces for Unmanned Warfare, by @OleksandraUNSW https://t.co/IkFrulR5t5