Barry R. Posen is the Ford international professor of political science of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a Council on Foreign Relations fellow assigned to the office of the U.S. secretary of defense in 1982, he worked on issues related to the Soviet Ground Forces and armored breakthrough operations along the inner-German border. He has previously written about the armored breakthrough problem in “Breakthroughs: Armored Offensives in Western Europe 1944.”
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A dozen or so tiny figures are scattered across a bulldozed dirt landscape, picking their way around the rubble of a leveled building in the foreground. Devastated mid-rise towers stand in ruins in the distance with their windows blown out.
Slavian, a former Russian special forces sergeant who now fights for Ukraine after living in the country for a decade with his Ukrainian wife, gestures to keep quiet as he moves along front-line tenches toward a Russian position in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Oct. 27, 2022.
