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Samuel Bendett says, “This reconnaissance fire/reconnaissance strike contour is the main defining element to date of the war in Ukraine, both by the Ukrainians, who are very successful in integrating drones with their artillery strikes, as well as the Russians.”

Michael Kofman says “This is why Bakhmut is a battle that I think was advantageous to Ukraine, but now there are questions about how much the cost of fighting for Bakhmut could impede Ukraine’s overall strategy for this winter or spring.”

Samuel Bendett says, “Moscow considers the Arctic key to its national security and economic development – this was enshrined in its government statements, policies and especially in its Maritime Doctrines since the early 1990s.

Samuel Bendett says, "The size and the scale of drone use in Ukraine supersedes all the previous conflicts."

Samuel Bendett says, “I think Ukraine needs a lot of these systems distributed very widely across the entire depth of the front. It would need hundreds of these systems around large cities, around large military facilities, around military bases, in main infrastructure facilities and the like.”

Samuel Bendett says, “I think Ukraine needs a lot of these systems distributed very widely across the entire depth of the front. It would need hundreds of these systems around large cities, around large military facilities, around military bases, in main infrastructure facilities and the like.”

Michael Kofman says, “It felt going into the winter that the Russian military was the most vulnerable and the job of the Ukrainian military was to press the Russian military, to prevent force reconstitution, to maintain the initiative heading into the winter and the spring and then conduct an offensive at the time of their choosing.”

Samuel Bendett says, ''The Ukrainian drone effort is more streamlined and works directly with the military. The Russians are only getting there now.''

Jeffrey Edmonds says, that the firepower provided by the Bradley is substantially more than that provided by individual or crew-served weapons. "It depends on how you use them, but especially against lighter armored vehicles, a Bradley is deadly,"

Jonathan Schroden says, “The Haqqanis killed some Americans, yes. But they killed vastly more Afghans—the same people, with the same humanity, that he’s lecturing Harry about.”

Jonathan Schroden says, “The Pakistani military is not designed nor optimized for fighting the likes of TTP in the tribal areas of the country. I suspect, as they have done in the past, that its leaders will do everything they can to avoid another large military conflagration of that kind.”

Michael Kofman says "Bakhmut by itself as a singular axis does not offer very much.”

Michael Kofman said that Ukrainians are using “a zoo of different air defense systems” to combat the threat, including Soviet-era and NATO missile systems, each with its own cost profile.

Michael Kofman said that Monday’s strike reflected a shift in Ukrainian tactics with the U.S.-supplied rocket systems, Western military analysts said. Kyiv has moved from targeting ammunition dumps and supply lines to hitting barracks and other troop concentrations.

Jeffrey Edmonds says, "We would have thought that they would have done a much more deliberate, well-thought-through operation. That is not what they did."