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Putin’s Strategy to Win His War in Ukraine: “Out-Suffer” Them – About a week ago, Andrei Klepach, the chief economist for Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB), which is the second-largest banking institution in the country, was removed after 12 years in the job. For ten years before that, he had run the macroeconomic forecasting unit at the economic development and trade ministry. In short, one of the country’s most experienced and insightful economic analysts.

Our intrepid team covers a lot of ground in this episode: the increasing fluidity of the battlefield, drones and air defense, the biting Black Sea campaign, the causes and aftermath of the firing of Ukraine’s popular defense minister, why Ukraine probably cannot produce PAC-3 air defense missiles (despite what some journalists are telling you), and the likelihood of a new round of Russian mobilization. This episode is Dara Massicot and Michael Kofman at their best.Thanks to NODA AI for supporting this episode. NODA AI is building mission command for autonomous forces.

During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy fielded the iconic AIM-54 Phoenix missile. Fired by the F-14 Tomcat and guided by radar, the Phoenix was upgraded to an operational range of nearly 100 nautical miles. This allowed the Tomcat to engage enemy aircraft at extremely long distance from the carrier.
Retired in 2004, the Phoenix appears to have a spiritual successor in the new AIM-424 Malice missile.
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This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brandon Tseng, the co-founder and president of Shield AI and a former Navy SEAL, whose company builds the Hivemind autonomy software, the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon synthetic reality and simulation technologies. We asked Brandon about the bet at the center of his company — that the AI pilot matters more than the airframe — and about what a decade building autonomy for the Pentagon has taught him.