An estimate of visually confirmed losses of Russian tanks, AFVs, self-propelled artillery, and MLRS in active service (not storage). Data from Oryx/Jakub & The Military Balance 2022, retrieved on April 17th.
An estimate of visually confirmed losses of Russian tanks, AFVs, self-propelled artillery, and MLRS in active service (not storage). Data from Oryx/Jakub & The Military Balance 2022, retrieved on March 31st.
Here. I wrote about the point of deciding to just fight and die on a hill rather than endlessly calculating the best moment to put up an opposition. othermeans.io/p/going-down...
Going Down Swinging
The Point of Putting Up a Fight
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An estimate of visually confirmed losses of Russian tanks, AFVs, self-propelled artillery, and MLRS in active service (not storage). Data from Oryx/Jakub & The Military Balance 2022, retrieved on February 19th.
An estimate of visually confirmed losses of Russian tanks, AFVs, Self-Propelled Artillery, and MLRS in active service. Data from Oryx/Jakub & The Military Balance 2022, retrieved on January 11th.
Billy Joel should rewrite his song "We Didn't Start The Fire" but only include events that happened this year/2020s. Enough to write and sing about.
Russian oligarchs versus South African oligarch: who wins the battle for U.S. government?
An estimate of visually confirmed losses of Russian tanks in active service. Data from Oryx/Jakub & The Military Balance 2022, retrieved on December 18th.
My most recent post is on why Carl’s still not dead, and the continued failure of many people to understand this simple concept shows why it’s important we know that. open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
Dead Carl Lives! - Why Clausewitz Endures
Reading and understanding Clausewitz is worth your time
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Any national security/geopolitics/war studies books recommendations?
Hopefully Santa will finally give me a B-2 bomber for Christmas
Activists like to block things because blocking this is what they imagine activists to do. It’s a cargo cult mentality. There’s no consideration as to how the means will achieve the desired end. open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
Clausewitz On Activism: Professionalism and Parochialism
What Progressive Activists, the German General Staff, and Battlefield Earth all have in common
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Skanda Amarnath@skandaamarnath.bsky.social · 2y agoBut if global emissions are to be reduced, the mechanisms have to operate at global scale. Blocking a domestic oil & gas project in the US has low elasticity to global oil & gas consumption (which is what counts for climate) if OPEC, Russia, Qatar can (& will) pick up the slack
Losses in Syria from today (06.12.2024) and the stuff that showed up yesterday after i posted it + some old Stuff I found on Youtube 104 Losses, all SAA, out of which 10x Destroyed 38 Losses are older ones.
An estimate of visually confirmed losses of Russian Tanks, AFVs, Self-Propelled Artillery, and MLRS in active service. Data from Oryx/Jakub & The Military Balance 2022, retrieved on December 5th.
Losses in Syria from today (05.12.2024) and the stuff that showed up yesterday after i posted it + some old Stuff from Sunday 48 Losses, all SAA, out of which 5x Destroyed Lots of Airfield Equipment today.
1000-day update Russian visually-confirmed losses (based on the Oryx list) of major AFV platforms since the start of their 2022 invasion of Ukraine: Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
‼️ Russia: “The Central Bank of the Russian Federation raised the official exchange rate of the US dollar by 9.18 kopecks to 100.0348 rubles from November 20.” It’s the first time the official exchange rate of the USD exceeded 100 rubles since October 10, 2023. www.interfax.ru/business/993...
The entire Russian assault group uses exclusively light unarmored civilian vehicles. I think I've never seen anything like this before. t.me/SBUkr/13394
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 16/11/2024 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
Russian channels are currently reporting that a large-scale leadership purge is underway within Russia’s 3rd Guards Combined Arms Army. Per reports, the command staff of the 3rd CAA has been fired, and the commanders of the 7th and 123rd Brigades have been arrested.
New: Pyongyang has supplied Moscow’s army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved to Russia’s Kursk region for an assault involving North Korean soldiers to push out Ukrainian forces, a Ukrainian intelligence assessment has found. www.ft.com/content/83ad...
North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems
Ukrainian intelligence says weapons being sent to Russia’s Kursk region to attack Kyiv’s forces
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⚡️ WAR IN #UKRAINE - NOV 16, 2024 ■ Increase in engagements & 10th highest casualties so far ■ Equipment losses, however, remain below average ■ 🇷🇺 shelling & strikes up between days while 🇺🇦 strikes are focused on fewer targets 📈 lookerstudio.google.com/s/nz5VD5DH364
The first few images of a Dutch donated DITA 155mm Self-Propelled Gun in service with the Ukrainian National Guard. These were published by Oleksandr Pivnenko head of the Ukrainian National Guard. Source; t.me/Pivnenko_NGU...
"The first victim of Donald Trump’s second term as US president is likely to be Ukraine. The only people who can avert that disaster are us Europeans... Unless Europe can somehow rise to the challenge, not just Ukraine but the whole continent will be left weak..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s return is terrible news for Ukraine. Europe should step into the breach – but will it? | Timothy Garton Ash
With Germany’s government collapsing and Europeans so divided in their response to Trump, unity is essential yet elusive, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Europe delivered nearly 1,000,000 artillery shells to Ukraine this year, and aims to deliver another half million rounds by January, per the EU's Josep Borrell. On track for roughly 4,000 shells per day from the EU alone in 2024.
