Michael Kofman
Michael Kofman is a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on the Russian military, Ukrainian armed forces, and Eurasian security issues. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Russian military and the Russo-Ukrainian war, and hosts the bi-weekly podcast The Russia Contingency on the War on the Rocks platform. Prior to joining Carnegie in 2023, he served as director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses.
“the statistics out there do show that drones inflict 80% of losses. However, it is really a combination of things.”
Source→“Vladimir Putin did not see Ukraine as a real independent country with a separate national identity”
Source→“Prigozhin's given the authority by the Russian government to go recruit from Russian prisons”
Source→“as Gibson used to say, 'The future is already here, it's not evenly distributed.'”
Source→“with a fiber-optic cable drone, you have nothing in terms of warning cuz you can't receive that signal.”
Source→“using a combination of drones and very well-equipped and adapted mechanized formations to try to return maneuver to the battlefield.”
Source→“three-man fire teams with drone support, systematically clearing tree line by tree line”
Source→“Ukraine's 3rd Corps having conducted a successful offensive operation.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.