In-depth conversations on the conflicts and rivalries shaping our world, explored in the detail the subject deserves. Dmitri Alperovitch speaks with the military commanders, intelligence officials, diplomats, historians, and strategists who shape events and study them closely — on the war in Ukraine, strategic competition with China and the future of Taiwan, nuclear deterrence, sanctions and semiconductors, and the changing character of warfare. Throughout, the aim is to understand not merely what has happened, but why — and what is likely to follow.
Geopolitics Decanted is hosted by Dmitri Alperovitch — chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator in Washington, D.C., national bestselling author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century, and co-founder of CrowdStrike.
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Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
June 5, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) and Rob Lee (Senior Fellow at the Eurasia Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute) about the new developments in the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces.
Topics covered:
- Latest on the war in the Donbas, Russian progress and Ukrainian counteroffensives
- Will the Western military aid (howitzers, MLRS/HIMARS, armor, UAVs...) be enough to help Ukraine in this stage of the fight?
- Why is the rate of Russian casualties appearing to decrease from earlier in the war?
- Can current high rate of Ukrainian casualties be sustained?
- Are the Russians performing better at close-air support and electronic warfare than they had been earlier?
- Putin's war on global food supplies
- Can the Ukrainian ports be safely demined now?
- How long can this phase of the war continue?
- Russia: Bad military or bad plan?
- Russian force design: why they weren't prepared for this fight
- Shadow mobilization options for Russia
Follow the speakers on Twitter: @DAlperovitch, @KofmanMichael and @RALee85
Recent article by Michael Kofman and Rob Lee discussed on the podcast: https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/not-built-for-purpose-the-russian-militarys-ill-fated-force-design/
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