Demoralizing Defeat: An Assessment Of Strategic Breakthrough, From Alexander The Great To Operation Iraqi Freedom – Analysis

By Michael P. Ferguson

Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine loosened a flood of theories about the evolving character of modern wars.1The first year of the conflict saw numerous breakthroughs but no clear victor, beginning with Russia’s penetration to the outskirts of Kyiv, followed by Ukrainian counteroffensives at...