Ukraine will not be like Korea - dogged resistance will turn it into Putin's 'bleeding ulcer
The Conversation
By Frank Ledwidge
Senior Lecturer in Military Capabilities and Strategy, University of Portsmouth
Published: March 29, 2022 10.04am EDT
Nato has applied the lessons of Iraq to develop new thinking on setting up effective resistance forces against Russian forces. For some time Ukrainian, US and other intelligence agencies will have been identifying and supplying the territorial defence leaders behind Russian lines, and they have been effective in disrupting Russian supply lines and logistics.
Should Ukraine be split as Putin plans, this will not be a frozen conflict, as Korea is
From 1807 to 1814 on the Iberian peninsula, Napoleon had to fight Spanish, Portuguese and British armies while beset by ubiquitous, ferocious insurgents. He described this war as his bleeding ulcer, draining him of men and equipment. It is the wests aim to make Ukraine for Putin what Spain was for Napoleon.
In the absence of a negotiated settlement, Ukraine and Nato will continue to grind away at Russias army, digging away at that bleeding ulcer and prolonging Russias agony on the military front, as the west continues its parallel assault on its economy. If Putins plan is to proceed with the Korea model, he will fail. There is a strong possibility that Putin has only a limited idea of how badly his army is faring. So be it hell find out soon enough that there is now no path for him to military victory.
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