Ukraine's Long-Range Strike Command: Institutionalising Deep Strike

After years of technical and tactical innovation, as well collaboration between Ukrainian organisations and foreign agencies, Ukraine takes the next step in its long-range strike endeavours.

mickryan.substack.com

EXCLUSIVE: Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role

Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or ​advanced drone technology, sa...

reuters.com

Why a Weaker Russia Keeps Fighting

Putin sees little need to negotiate.

foreignaffairs.com

Ukraine's Long-Range Strike Command: Institutionalising Deep Strike

After years of technical and tactical innovation, as well collaboration between Ukrainian organisations and foreign agencies, Ukraine takes the next step in its long-range strike endeavours.

mickryan.substack.com

Will Putin be forced to announce another mobilisation?

Like many people trying to follow the Russo-Ukraine War I spend a lot of time staring at maps of the front line.

samf.substack.com

First Blood: How the Battle of Milne Bay Broke the Spell of Japanese Invincibility

What a battle on the eastern tip of New Guinea can teach today's military leaders about intelligence, air-land integration, and the discipline of Commanders holding their nerve under a pressure.

mickryan.substack.com

Momentum shifts for Zelenskyy in Washington

Senators who attended a closed door meeting with the Ukrainian leader said his pitch is starting to have an impact.

politico.com

First Blood: How the Battle of Milne Bay Broke the Spell of Japanese Invincibility

What a battle on the eastern tip of New Guinea can teach today's military leaders about intelligence, air-land integration, and the discipline of Commanders holding their nerve under a pressure.

mickryan.substack.com

Total War on Taipei: China Explores Elevating Cognitive Effects into Its Vision of Warfare

In March 2025, China’s military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of Taipei. Distributed in restricted

warontherocks.com

Deepening Dilemmas: Ukraine's New Commands, Drapatyi's Priorities, Long Range Strike & Russia's War Math. The Big Five, 26 July.

This week: The new Ukrainian military leadership, Drapatyi's priorities, Ukraine's new military commands, Russia's deepening dilemma in its war against Ukraine, and my Big 5 reading recommendations.

mickryan.substack.com

⚡️Putin’s regime under fire! Wave of strikes rocks Moscow. Kremlin never expected this humiliation

YouTube video by War & Politics 24

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The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.

America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.

theatlantic.com

Russia Develops “Web” Protective Structure to Shield Oil Refineries From Drones

Russia has developed modular metal structures called “Web” to protect infrastructure facilities from drone attacks.RT-Project Technologies developed the product in partnership with Standard-Elektrik. ...

militarnyi.com

Thanks No Thanks – Fedorov Turns Down Zelensky’s Offer to Become ‘Deputy PM for Military Innovations’

The former defense minister expressed his gratitude but said he is not accepting any offers other than positions that can allow him to make an actual impact.

kyivpost.com

Why People Worship Corrupt Leaders

The ancient world understood something we prefer to avoid: corrupt power does not survive only by deceiving people. It survives by giving them strength, revenge, belonging, and permission.

linkedin.com

Ukraine’s new command team faces its first three tests

The general and the minister must work – and be seen – as a team.

lowyinstitute.org

The resignation of the year and appointment of a new Cabinet: why Zelenskyy is removing Fedorov from the Defence Ministry

On the evening of 15 July, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived late for a meeting with the Servant of the People faction.

pravda.com.ua

Zelenskyy holds first special Staff meeting with weapons manufacturers and corps commanders

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a special meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on 20 July that brought weapons manufacturers and army corps commanders together for the f...

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Sacking the Reformer: Ukraine’s Civil-Military Crisis, Russia’s Widening Dilemma, and the Middle East on Edge. The Big Five, 19 July 2026

This week: A new Ukrainian civil-military crisis, protestors of the streets, Russia's big strategic defence dilemmas, the impact of the new phase of the Iran War, and Chinese coercion in the Pacific.

mickryan.substack.com

The Corsair Strikes: Fast Followers at War

Corsair, LUCAS and the Ukraine Lessons America is Applying Against Iran

mickryan.substack.com

Outgunned, But Not Outplayed: Iran's Theory of Victory

Nineteen weeks ago, Iran faced the combined might of the most powerful country in the world and the most advanced military in the Middle East. Today, it

warontherocks.com

Crimea's Switch Off, Ankara’s Outcomes, Russia’s Black Sea Shipping Apocalypse and Beijing's Pacific Signal. The Big Five, 12 July

Trump: "Would you go to Moscow (to meet Putin)?"

mickryan.substack.com

The Decline of Strategic Depth? Beyond Geography in Modern War

Examining the concept of strategic depth in the contemporary security environment, and what Western nations might do to enhance their individual and collective strategic depth.

mickryan.substack.com

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

theatlantic.com

The Adaptation Deficit: Why Western Militaries are Behind in the Race to Learn

Western military institutions, including in Australia, are failing to energetically learn from modern wars.

mickryan.substack.com

‘Less Arrogance and a Little More Humility’ – Mick Ryan

Australian Gen. Mick Ryan shares his thoughts on what NATO has not yet understood about Ukraine.

kyivpost.com