Thursday, April 7, 2022

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 7, 2022

James Lacey, Tim Barrick and Nathan Barrick, Modern War Institute: Wargaming a Long War: Ukraine Fights On 

In the weeks prior to the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Marine Corps University hosted a four-day wargame to forecast the war’s course. That wargame proved remarkably prescient, accurately predicting almost all of Russia’s major combat movements in the first week of operations. As the war entered its second month, the Marine Corps War College and the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare reopened the wargame with the aim of exploring how the future fight might develop, with a particular emphasis on a national resistance scenario in a Russian-occupied Ukraine.  

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 7, 2022  

Do Russians Really 'Lomh For War' In Ukraine -- Olga Khvostunova, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Donbas: Why Russia is trying to encircle Ukraine's east -- Paul Kirby, BBC News 

Is Russia Revising Its War Aims? -- Michael Kofman & Ryan Evans with War on the Rocks  

If Europe is done with Russian energy, where will Moscow sell its oil and gas? -- Arthur Sullivan, DW  

Scorched earth? West weighs stiffer sanctions as Russia denies war crimes in Ukraine -- France 24  

Which sanctions against Russia are still possible? -- David Ehl, DW  

Can War Massacres Sway China's Support for Russia? -- AP  

The China-Solomon Islands Deal Changes Everything -- Patricia O'Brien, The Diplomat  

Why Southeast Asia continues to buy Russian weapons -- David Hutt, DW  

Are war crimes allegations in Ethiopia being ignored? -- al Jazeera  

Tunisia's future darkens with dissolution of parliament -- Stephen Quillen, Al-monitor 

Bennett’s coalition has lost its majority. Could Netanyahu’s Likud now regain power? -- Tal Schneider, Times Of Israel  

Could Marine Le Pen actually win? -- Gavin Mortimer, Spectator 

 French election: Who's challenging Emmanuel Macron for the presidency? -- Paul Kirby, BBC News  

A New World of War -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

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