airpower and those are the key things they are going to use to, quote, soften up some of the targets. along this very long line here, only known to russia, they have selected probably several points where are they are going to try to make penetrations in. so one of the things we will see after this softening up here, which could be anywhere from one to three days is that then some of this russian armor that you just refer today will probably try to start making a breakthrough. their intent would be break through the front lines and get into the rear areas, and potentially cordon off certain parts of the ukraine forces and try to destroy them in piecemeal. what we look for if the ukrainians are successful, if if they will prevent those penetrations and be able to louisiana local counterattacks in depth of the defensive positions so if they make penetration, they will able to hit it in the flank and cut it off quickly. that s the going to be the key to how this battle unfolds.
battle unfolds. so, i m actually glad that you made that distinction when it comes to ground warfare because i quickly want you, admiral, to weigh in on the possibility of a cyberattack. we know russia is engaged in cyberattacks as we have well full seen in this country, especially when it came to our own elections. i know this would be obviously on a different front, but what is the preparedness that we have at hand and also ukraine when it comes to a cyber war? the ukrainians are quite vulnerable here. we ve already seen the russians use cyber to drop a portion of their electric grid several years ago. look, the leading edge of this is going to be cyber. the first thing that crosses that border in anger is not going to be tanks. it s going to be electrons, bits, ones and zeros, and by the way, yasmin, don t forget about, you know, the admiral s going to say this, don t forget about the sea, the black sea. watch for the russian navy to flood that zone to the south.
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