Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:1651Hits:20905950Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID192137
Title ProperUkraine’s Strategy of Attrition
LanguageENG
AuthorGady, Franz-Stefan ;  Kofman, Michael
Summary / Abstract (Note)Attrition has been both Ukraine’s and Russia’s primary approach at the tactical level. Ukraine’s preferred way of war centres on the use of artillery fire to facilitate decisive attritional effects on the opposing force, which it then exploits with manoeuvre. This is not unexpected, as most major conventional wars feature attrition as well as manoeuvre and reconstitution. Western assistance has brought Ukraine to an impressive point, but may not yield a fires advantage for Ukraine sufficient to ensure further operational breakthroughs or strategic gains. Advanced Western weapons, such as the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), have not allowed Ukraine to avoid attritional combat, particularly in its counter-offensive in Kherson. Even with more effective wide-scale combined-arms training and precision strikes, as contemplated, future Ukrainian gains are likely to be incremental and costly unless the Russian military significantly misspends combat power in its own offensive operations.
`In' analytical NoteSurvival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 65, No.2; Apr-May 2023: p.7-22
Journal SourceSurvival : the IISS Quarterly Vol: 65 No 2
Key WordsArtillery ;  Attrition ;  Combined-Arms Operations ;  Armed Forces of Ukraine


 
 
Media / Other Links  Full Text