Judging of Distances

Assessing military quality in real time is difficult because variables that appear self-explanatory in history books yield ambiguous or even misleading results when we try to use them in the present. Will the conscript army you read about in the newspapers flounder like Galtieri's freezing colimbas in the

As of mid-April in 2022, the front line in Ukraine appears to have stabilized. Russian forces have withdrawn from many of their positions in the north, abandoning any attempt to encircle Kiev or push south on the West bank of the Dnieper. Setting aside propaganda claims and counter-claims, it is