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The Russian View of Deep Battle: Implications for the War in Ukraine

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Bonus Reads, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesair superiority, command nodes, contested airspace, Deep Battle, drones, energy infrastructure, exploitation, incremental deepening, infrastructure, logistics, long-range strikes, maneuver warfare, massed firepower, nuclear signaling, operational depth, operational tempo, Precision Fires, rapid penetration, reserves, Russian operational art, Soviet doctrine, tactical nuclear weapons, Ukrainian defenses, Vladimir Triandafillov, war of attrition

The Russian View of Deep Battle: Implications for the War in Ukraine

Stephen Cimbala1 Comment

Russia’s conduct of military operations in Ukraine cannot be understood without revisiting one of the most influential concepts in Soviet and Russian operational art: Deep Battle. Developed in the 1920s…

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This Week in Deterrence (September 15-19, 2025)

Archive, Bonus Reads, Emerging Threats, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic Adversariesanti-satellite, Attrition, B-21 raider, B-52J, China, Cyber, Denmark, Deterrence, Doctrine, electronic warfare, End-to-End Testing, Golden Dome, hypersonic, industrial base, Iran, Kill Chains, long-range strike, missile defense, modernization, multi-domain operations, NATO, Precision Fires, proliferation, resilience, Responsive Launch, Russia, Space, strategic advantage, Survivability, Tactical Edge, Taiwan

This Week in Deterrence (September 15-19, 2025)

GSR Staff0 Comments

This past week was maelstrom of activities in deterrence. We are seeing a shift of the forces reshaping deterrence across domains. Paramount is the urgency of integrating allied doctrine, accelerating…

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