ground maneuver and air assets, that is the essence going all the way back to 1939 and they have not been able to achieve those effects from accusing armor together with infantry and engineers, with indirect fire, artillery, drones and all the rest of that. we have not seen any of those kinds of operations. we take for granted and are just normal standard and even catching the column out tanks the other day filmed by a drone at attacked by ukrainians destroying armored vehicles, they were just sitting open bunched together, not dispersed as they should happen didn t even react quickly to what was happening. again, it s a big corrective to the narrative what turns out to be myth that the russians
russian forces and in their attempt to overtake ukraine. what is your assessment of russian forces now? are they stalled, are they regrouping so that they could increase their assault, increase their violence on ukraine. what is your assessment? it is hard to tell, don. i think, they have not progressed as far as quickly as they would have liked to. i they they envisioned that they would move rapidly and very quickly seize the capital city. they ve not been able to do that. they ve struggled with logistics, so we ve seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of, you know, air capability with the ground maneuver. and so really a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we just haven t seen. an the russians really have
so this makes them easier targets. and it s one of the reasons why the ukrainian defense has been so successful. general, had the distinct honor of traveling around the region with lloyd austin. i got to ask him about his assessment of the russian military. let s take a listen to it. what s your assessment of the russian military? it s hard to tell, don. i think, you know, they have not progressed as quickly as they would have liked to. i think they envisioned they would move rapidly and very quickly seize the capital city. they have not been able to do that. they have struggled with logistics, so we have seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of air capability with the ground
russian forces now? are they stalled? are they regrouping so that they can increase their assault or increase their violence on ukraine? what s your assessment of the russian military? it s hard to tell, don. they have not progressed as far as they would like to. i think they envisioned they would move rapidly and quickly seize the capital city. they ve not been able to do that. they struggled with logistics. we ve seen a number of missteps along the way. i don t see, you know, evidence of good employment of tactical intelligence. i don t see integration of, you know, air capability with the ground maneuver. so there s a number of things we would expect to have seen that we haven t seen. the russians really have some problems. many of their assumptions have
at a stalemate of sorts until then, would they have a reasonable banchance of forcing russia to negotiate an end to the conflict? i would certainly believe that s true. and i would also take your premise that it would take another month to be too long. i believe it would be about two weeks and, in fact, we are already seeing the demise of the russian force in the field. now, having said that, though, i m going to say a caveat here and, that is, the russian ground maneuver, the tanks, the infantry, the the forward forces that are trying to take over different cities that those have stalled. what russia still has at their disposal is quite a bit of artillery, rockets, and missile launch systems. they can shoot those from far away. they don t have to be in the cities to shoot those. so, i don t think any of the russian forces are going to get into the city in in any way to occupy them. but they can certainly continue