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Over the past 18 months, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have had to develop the capacity to plan and execute military campaigns and operations on a scale that has not been seen since the US operations in Iraq in 2003. A short thread on the many campaigns of #Ukraine 1/15 🧵 
2/ The Ukrainian campaigns possess a complexity that can be difficult to appreciate. They all support Ukraine’s strategy of corrosion against Russia. While much focus is paid to the southern campaign, there are a others of note. What are they, & how can the West learn from them?
3/ There are ground campaigns around Bakhmut as well as a defensive campaign in Luhansk. At the same time, some low level reconnaissance is occurring to the west in Kherson. This could be an interesting one to watch.
4/ There is also an operational strike campaign which is using western air-launched missiles, #HIMARS, drones and maritime semi-submersible uncrewed vessels to conduct strikes. Bridges, HQ, logistics and Russian Army morale are the targets.
5/ There is also a lower tempo, but accelerating strategic strike campaign. This includes Moscow drone attacks, the Belgorod incursions, notifications about Russian ports as targets are all part of this. The target - Putin and the stability of his regime. edition.cnn.com/2023/08/05/eur…
6/ An air, missile and drone defence campaign is also underway, and has been since 22 Feb 2022. It has been evolving constantly to absorb newer western systems, and commercial tech, as well as the kind of targets it covers. This has developed an effective air defence network.
7/ A range of ‘enabling campaigns’ are also underway. These include training personnel, absorption of western equipment and munitions, the Army of Drones campaign, as well as a cyber campaign.
8/ Finally, #Ukraine continues to implement a global influence campaign. This has been vital in securing the military, economic, diplomatic, intelligence and humanitarian support for Ukraine’s defence.
9/ Each of these campaigns is the result of planning as well as opportunistic exploitation of Russian mistakes and other events. In their totality, these many campaigns are crucial to the defence of Ukraine and its people.
10/ There will be a certain integration or alignment between the various campaigns as well. How tight or loose this coupling is will evolve constantly, and is ultimately guided by military strategy, which support’s Ukraine’s political objectives.
11/ Few nations have had to undertake such a complicated series of concurrent campaigns, at speed, in past several decades. These is much Western military and government institutions can learn about modern war from Ukraine.
12/ Key lessons include the necessity of constant, multi-domain operations, development of campaign planning staffs and survivable HQ, investment in campaign enablers, and developing an adaptive stance for campaign execution.
13/ While assisting Ukraine with a wide array of physical, intellectual & moral means, western military organisations need to be rapidly absorbing the many lessons on campaigning from #Ukraine. Such lessons will be invaluable as we confront other authoritarian powers.
14/ You can read more on this subject of Ukraine’s many campaigns at Futura Doctrina. https://t.co/431GFaN9jFmickryan.substack.com/p/the-many-cam…
15/ Thank you to the following, whose images and links were used in this thread: @ZelenskyyUa @CovertShores @DefenceU @Militarylandnet @FedorovMykhailo @TDF_UA @CNN
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