2024 Year in Review: Part 1

How Historians Might Write the Russo-Ukraine War.

Hello All

I’ve been working on putting together a end of year review which covers all of 2024 and what I think are the main developments, markers that carried over from the year before, and signposts of where we are heading. Needless to say, as I started writing, it rather ballooned in size—the first half is approaching 2500 words. So I will have to break it up into (at least) two parts. Here is part one, which covers approximately the first half of 2024. Moreover, I have tried to write this from the point of view of a historian writing a little in the future. Its the best way I can think of to construct something of value. I hope you enjoy it.

What did we learn in 2023?

The main lesson in 2023, after the experience of both the Battle of Bakhmut (the Russian offensive in early 2023) and then the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer, was that land warfare as conceived of by the USA and NATO partners, does not apply to the Russo-Ukraine War (and might not apply to the US and NATO either).