Ep 197: Mick Ryan on the Ukrainian Battlefield

School of War · May 13, 2025 · 41m

Mick Ryan, retired major general in the Australian Army and author of

The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire, joins the show to discuss the evolving battlefield and cycles of change and innovation going on in Ukraine.

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Times

• 01:35 Introduction

• 02:17 Touring the front

• 05:11 No place safe

• 07:01 Change

• 11:24 Wire guided drones

• 15:31 Task organization

• 20:38 Drone defense

• 22:49 Is artillery dead?

• 26:39 Rethinking procurement

• 30:34 2014

• 33:07 Putin’s objectives

• 36:05 Formula for ceasefire

• 38:02 A just solution

• 39:41 Surprise is alive and well

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