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