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momentum to sustain a successful counteroffensive in the spring, major? yeah, i don t think that ukraine has the manpower to do it. we can give them divisions worth of equipment from an army perspective, but they still don t have the manpower to do it. russia still has numbers. they have mass with regard to people they can throw at this. the best they can do is hold off and defend well the areas they re defending. they have the advantage of being on their home soil. they have used terrain, they have used rivers in order to block certain passages. but until the ukraine military can threaten crimea, the can launch something kind of focus on offensive, they can t do an offensive in both the east and to the south. i think they have to decide whether they re going to do that and i think they re waiting to make sure they have potential manpower, but they re still likely three to six to nine months away from any kind of counteroffensive just from a manpower perspective. it s interesting t
statements from the army this afternoon saying we re keeping the 15-6 investigation, the finding of facts that drove the article 32 that is about to determine evidence, we re keeping that very secret from the army perspective so we don t taint the trial. the release of a statement by mr. bergdahl s lawyer and by him before the 32 begins is somewhat well it s not the right way to approach this. all of those evidentiary proceedings will take place during the article 32 investigation, the grand jury. to low it out in the public view is just not the right way to do it. that s the way a lot of people do it in the civilian sector. it s not the way we do it in the military. but i have been a court-martial authority in the past. i know that there s always an attempt by a civilian lawyer or by a soldier to throw things out before the evidentiary