2024-08-11 | Kursk Operation is Ukraine's Gamble for Victory over Russian Invasion.

2024-08-10 | The Battle of Kursk hastens the downfall of Putin's
murderous regime. In a historical irony the name 'Kursk' bookends
failure at the start of his time in office, and may signal it's end in
catastrophic failure. Is Kursk Putin's avenging nemesis?
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Kursk - a gamble for victory

“A surprise attack, conceived with cunning, prepared with duplicity and
executed with ruthlessness, provides international history with its most
melodramatic moments.” So explains Sir Lawrence Freedman in his
superlative books ‘Command’ and ‘Strategy’. And Ukraine has demonstrated
its command of surprise and the potential battlefield impact through
its lightning advance through Russia’s Kursk oblast.

The power of shock in warfare is to overwhelm an adversary when they are
at their weakest or when they least expect it. The irony here, is that
Russian hubris, and its culture of systemic lying throughout the
military and political hierarchy mean they are less likely to imagine
the unexpected and prepare for it. Add to this the fact Russia does not
see Ukraine as sovereign, and constantly denies its agency, which means
they underestimate the Ukrainian capacity for innovation and surprise
time and again, to their detriment. This time assumptive and arrogant
thinking may lead to total defeat.

‘Between countries at war, there is no border, there is only the front,’
states the Ukrainian military researcher Mykola Bielieskov. Russians
have forgotten that, but the Ukrainians did not. The incursions into
Kursk and now Belgorod, have achieved stunning initial success and are
looking more and more like a full offensive. This shows what Ukrainians
can achieve if they have both the tools and lack of restrictions in how
they fight Russia.
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