Mike Petersen
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Mike Petersen
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Russian military and US Navy warfighting analysis at the Center for Naval Analyses; former Senior Advisor to US Navy Chief of Naval Operations; former director of Russia Maritime Studies at the Naval War College; Sailboats good, IPAs bad, opinions mine.
Reading a Russian account of the 2022 Battle of Gostomel and came across this tidbit I didn't know: Russian paratroops were supposedly supplied with two days of lethal ammunition and a day's supply of rubber bullets. So they were expecting maybe a day of light resistance and some civil pacification.
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 PM
A peek into some current research: How do the Russian Aerospace Forces understand the air war in Ukraine? Deputy Commander of the Aerospace Forces Colonel General Sergei Dronov wrote on this in early 2024. Air combat in Ukraine, he writes, 1...
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM
November 15, 2024 at 4:42 AM