John Bruni Founder & CEO SAGE International Host of the STRATEGIKON & The Focus Podcasts In all the media hyperbole on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, little has been said of the patterns that have emerged regarding how Putin's army is fighting and the parallels it shares with former Soviet/Russian client-states such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and the People's Republic of China. [...] Suffering from the previously mentioned disadvantages of the Iraqi military, a Soviet-style command system, a complete lack of decentralised planning and communication nodes, the Libyan Army could not challenge either the rebels on the ground or NATO planes in the skies. [...] The result? The capture and gruesome death of Gaddafi by the hands of rebel forces. [...] The Russian military of today is based on Soviet organisational culture, a culture that did not die with the collapse of the USSR in 1992 and was exported to many anti- Western countries and politically agnostic arms buyers around the world. [...] The brittle nature of Russian-derived doctrine and military technology will make it difficult to prosecute a complex war unless the war has a) broad public support and b) the West stays out of the conflict politically and militarily.
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