Ukraine Has Shattered the Myth of Russian Military Might
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We provide what many… When President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the Kremlin appeared to be betting on a familiar axiom of European security: sheer Russian mass, backed by vast Soviet-era stockpiles and nuclear power, would overwhelm resistance.
More than four years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion, that assumption has been all but obliterated.
Ukraine survived, derailed Russia'sexpected quick victory,and turned the conflict into a high-tech war of attrition.
It has developed an innovation cycle that Joshua Huminski, senior vice president for national security and intelligence at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, said is moving faster than anything the US or other NATO countries are doing.
Yet Moscow's growing reliance on North Korea for ammunition, missiles, and troops should not be mistaken either for proof that Russia is collapsing -- or, on the contrary, that its military will emerge from the war stronger than before, experts said.
The picture they draw is more complicated.
Ukraine has inflicted severe damage on Russia's conventional forces and exposed profound failures in its planning and doctrine.
At the same time, Moscow continues to adapt to the battlefield, expand weapons production, and learn from a war unlike any it had previously fought.
“Russia's conventional ground forces in Ukraine are being consistently and severely degraded," Huminski told RFE/RL.
But he warned that judging Russian military power solely through that lens would be "a mistake.” Russia's Northern and Pacific naval fleets retain important capabilities, he said, while its strategic nuclear forces have been largely untouched and Moscow still possesses capable cyber and space assets.
The question, then, may no longer simply be whether Russia remains the world's second-most-powerful military.
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