Author: Michael

Russia’s Battlefield Losses Are Blamed on “War With NATO”: The Kremlin frequently promotes the narrative that it is fighting a direct war against the “collective West” to explain its ongoing military debacle in Ukraine.

By framing the conflict as a struggle against a combined 32-nation NATO alliance, Moscow attempts to mask the effectiveness of Ukrainian forces while maintaining support for the war at home.

Tu-22M Backfire Bomber from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Tu-22M3 Russian Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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The domestic Ukrainian drone industry has undergone significant change since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. What originally started as an ad hoc network of Ukrainian volunteers working to modify existing commercial quadcopter drones had morphed and grown substantially.

Today, the Ukrainian drone defense sector is capable of producing many thousands of unmanned systems per year, including long-range strike drones with significant payload capacity that can strike deep within the Russian heartland.

Sea Baby Drone Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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Ukraine Has Two Months Before Putin Could Order Mobilization: Ukrainian authorities have only two months to end the war with Russia. If that does not happen, the Kremlin may decide to escalate it further, Czech President Petr Pavel said, according to The Telegraph.

With parliamentary elections coming soon, Russian President Vladimir Putin may order a large mobilization right after the September 20 elections, Pavel said.

Tu-160 Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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Managing the nation’s defense workforce across commands and at scale has reached a critical inflection point. When mission success depends on “speed of readiness,” commanders and agency leaders still find themselves relying on fragmented spreadsheets and rigid job descriptions to assemble the skills they need.
As most defense officials have long conceded, the military does not have a data collection problem; it has a data silos problem.

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Hamlet Avagyan left his native Armenia for Ukraine in 2015 to fight against Russian military and pro-Russian separatists.
Avagyan committed for three months, yet he never left. He told Ukrainska Pravda, an independent news outlet, that a chance meeting with a Ukrainian soldier changed his outlook forever.
Related: Ukraine is using a World War I ‘creeping barrage’ tactic to turn the tide of the war“In Avdiivka, I met Da Vinci,” said Avagyan, now a major in the Ukrainian military.

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