Michael Bohnert, an engineer at Rand Corporation, shares some useful insights about electronic warfare in the August 16, 2024 episode of the podcast Ukraine the Latest. He discusses this topic in connection with Ukraine’s Kursk incursion and describes the difficult choices that Russia’s political and military leadership face in the coming months from the standpoint of electronic warfare.

Also, Anders Puck Nielsen, a military analyst in Denmark, released a helpful 15-minute video on YouTube today about where he thinks Russia’s leadership is in responding to Ukraine’s incursion. Acknowledging complexity, he nonetheless keeps his viewers' eyes on two fundamental issues for Russia, namely, space and manpower, and he underlines the critical domestic political entanglements that the manpower question has.

Both of these contributions offer useful perspectives on Ukraine’s shakeup of a common impression that the conflict was supposedly frozen. Of course, there are many more aspects of this story, but I highlight these contributions because I haven’t seen them in other news stories so far.

August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion

Map of the incursion in early August, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons on August 8, 2024 by Ecrusized in varying sizes and languages. License: CC0 (no rights reserved).