Russia invades Ukraine - 5 - from 2 October 2023

Better late than never I guess.

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Man the ptsd from this war is going to be something else

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Some more strategic reading for armchair officers

Suntzu (sic) on the Effect of Surprise in War
Vol. 6 No. 11 (June 1919) (nla.gov.au)

Is Carl Von Clausewitz Still Relevant in The 21st Century? by LTCOL Jeremy Mierendorf

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Russian losses per 19/11/23 reported by the Ukrainian general staff.

+1190 men
+13 tanks
+25 APVs
+18 artillery systems
+2 MLRS
+2 AD systems
+29 UAVs

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That’s a big day

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Strong stuff from Dmitri. But 100% valid.

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Evening Nexta!

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Evening Sweatyman! How’s things going? Has a cruisy Sunday?

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@bricky and others, this is an unbiased and high quality podcast interviewing a Russia analyst who’s just got back from Ukraine.

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Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll listen to this once the cricket ICC :cricket: is determined.

Meanwhile there was an interesting Lex podcast that came up last night. I fell asleep after 10 mins but I like the geo politics.

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ArthurD would’ve been all over that post conljecturing abuot the comms channels and Jetson boards. Kind of miss that.

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a whole generation of UA and RU women and men will be affected. Hopefully, western experience will help deal with it in UA and advise the gov on how to deliver psy help; unfortunately, the RU will end up just coping with vodka and drugs unless things change.

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Nuclear Modernisation - Rearmament, ageing stockpiles and why Russia’s nukes work (probably) - Perun

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