When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, one of its first targets was the city of Mariupol. Despite being outnumbered by—and less well equipped than—their adversaries, Ukrainian defenders held out for three months. As the Russian siege of the city intensified, Ukrainian forces defended a shrinking perimeter with a command post in the Azovstal steel plan ... Show More
Jan 2025
FTS: AAI - The View from the Pentagon: What's Next In the Mideast, Ukraine, on China and on AI?
Original air date: January 22, 2024
Has the US response to attacks on our troops and ships, been adequate? Are the attacks against Houthis too little too late...or the start down a slippery slope to another military quagmire? What if our aid to Ukraine dries up? Is the Pentagon l ... Show More
42m 52s
Aug 2022
Slicing the Sausage: Ukraine’s Upcoming Counteroffensive
<p>In this podcast Dmitri Alperovitch interviews Sergii Grabskyi, a Reserve Colonel in the Ukrainian military, about Ukraine’s upcoming counteroffensive.
Michael Kofman, Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis, also joins the show ... Show More
53m 7s