![]() Before its invasion in February 2022, Russia had nearly five times as many military personnel as Ukraine, a defense budget eleven times larger, an economy almost eight times larger, and significantly better military capabilities. One of the most interesting puzzles is how Ukraine-which has a significantly smaller military, weaker military capabilities, a limited defense industrial base, and a smaller economy-was able to blunt a Russian blitzkrieg and then conduct a series of counterattacks against dug-in Russian forces. The Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war is filled with unpredictability and that “in war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected.” Just ask Russian political and military leaders in charge of the war in Ukraine today. ![]()
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