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Struggling, Kiev is trying to regain control from Moscow

12/27/2023, 7:02:49 PM

Highlights: Struggling, Kiev is trying to regain control from Moscow. Western theorists of "multi-domain" warfare are watching Ukraine closely. Military advisers rely on the synergy of air, land, sea, cyber, and even space operations to ensure superiority on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine does not correspond to the patterns imagined by the West. The different fronts are fragmented and successes rub shoulders with setbacks. As for the army of Ukraine, it has achieved its greatest successes in the Black Sea, thanks to its air force.


DECRYPTION - While the Ukrainian army has achieved a success in the Black Sea by destroying the Russian ship "Novocherkassk", it continues to retreat in Marinka, in the Donetsk region.

Western theorists of "multi-domain" warfare are watching Ukraine closely. Military advisers rely on the synergy of air, land, sea, cyber, and even space operations to ensure superiority on the battlefield against a less agile adversary. This is what they professed to their Ukrainian interlocutors, with mixed results. The war in Ukraine does not correspond to the patterns imagined by the West. The different fronts are fragmented and successes rub shoulders with setbacks.

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The Ukrainian navy is non-existent, but it is in the Black Sea that Ukraine has achieved its greatest successes, thanks to its air force. It has been reduced to a trickle and can only keep Russian planes at bay in its airspace. It awaits the arrival of the promised F-16s. Ukrainian cyber fighters have demonstrated the superiority of their defense, but without being capable of decisive offensive operations. As for the army of...

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