Ep 132: Michael Kofman on the Battlefield in Ukraine (War in Ukraine #4)

School of War · Jul 16, 2024 · 47m

Michael Kofman, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and contributor to War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World, joins the show to talk about the operational phases of the war in Ukraine.

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Times

• 01:28 Introduction

• 02:14 A case of “Two Wars”

• 09:37 Operating on assumptions

• 14:54 Contingency and structure

• 23:41 Figuring things out in the field

• 31:22 Cyber is overhyped

• 39:56 Achieving a favorable outcome

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