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Ukraine Can Win This War
Ukraine Can Win This War
Ukrainian soldiers ride in an armored tank in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in the Kharkiv region. (Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The experts said Ukraine was was ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and Russia’s military was simply too powerful. They were wrong.
By Liam Collins and John Spencer
09.26.22 — International
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Ukraine Can Win This War

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the conventional wisdom among military experts was that it would all be over for Ukraine in a matter of weeks. Here was Russia, one of the world’s ostensible superpowers, its military five times the size of Ukraine’s, and with nuclear weapons to boot.  At the start of the conflict, Russia maintained an a…

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Liam Collins

Liam is the executive director of the Madison Policy Forum. He is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel with a PhD from Princeton University, served as a defense advisor to Ukraine from 2016-2018, and co-author of Understanding Urban Warfare.

John Spencer

John Spencer is the chair of urban warfare studies at the Madison Policy Forum. He served 25 years in the U.S. Army, to included two combat tours in Iraq. He is the author of the book Connected Soldiers and co-author of Understanding Urban Warfare.

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