The lessons we’re learning from the war in Ukraine today should not be ignored tomorrow
Some we already knew, such as having a motivated army is sometimes as effective, at least in the short term, as having a big army, from the Finns in the Winter War of 1939-40, and from the North Vietnamese a generation ago. Here are some others we are in the process of learning, or re-learning:Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that Ukraine isn’t really a country and that his “special military operation” is designed to weed out Nazis from one of the former Soviet republics.
According to his memoir, Robert M. Gates, who was defence secretary to George W. Bush, told the president after the speech that “the West, and particularly the United States, had badly underestimated the magnitude of the Russian humiliation in losing the Cold War.” In many cases, the military forces in battle have simply exhausted themselves or the fighting has come to a pause. That surely was the case in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. The Second World War was in many ways the continuation of the First World War, and historians often think of them less as two wars than as one long 30-year conflict with a brief intermission between the killing.
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