Day 617

UDC 355

MODERN POSITIONAL WARFARE AND HOW TO WIN IN IT Valeriy Zaluzhny Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (November 1, 2023)

The liberation stage (Phase 3¹) of the war will be, er, stalled, at least for the next couple of months, probably until 2025. That’s the gist of Commander in Chief Zaluzhny’s memo to the world released one day after Halloween.

Some 640 words in the 9-page essay published by The Economist are dedicated to beefing up Ukraine’s SIGINT capabilities, which indeed suck. Team USA hasn’t shared cutting-edge technology to help Ukraine detect very weak side-loop signals at great distances because there are too many snitches.

This is the second memo to the world authored by Zaluzhny. The first, titled “2023 Military Campaign Prospects,” talked about Schwerpunkt²³.