Modern War: Ukraine Part I

The Order of Battle

Ukraine, Geostrategicmedia, Creative Commons License

Like my earlier analysis of the Slow Moving Coup, this piece on the looming potential conflict between Russia and Ukraine will be a factual summary and history in the first part followed by a course of action analysis in the second. I rely heavily on open-source data, Ukrainian media sources, ISW (Institute for the Study of War), DOD publications, and the BBC. I am a former Army…