Huds hudson senior institute. I am seth cropsey. I hope that you have the monograph thats a subject of our discussion today. And, if you do not, i believe that we still have copies in and out the front desk so by all means pick up a copy on your way out. We are fortunate to have with us today brian mcgraft, this man, my friend and coarthur, former Deputy Director of Hudson Center and managing director of the National Security defense consultant. Also a plane crash to welcome this man. Also, a retired naval officer and defense news best writer. I will offer some thoughts based on our monograph, brian will follow and then the three of us will discuss, well conclude with questions and probably some answers. To the untrained audience, modern Technology May seemed to have eliminated the thought of war that defined premodern battlefields. Victory and historic conflict relied on the coincidence of skills and luck. The great commander thought to place himself in a position to impose his will o
Afraid to take your issue seriously. You are never too young to have an opinion so that your voice be heard now. For more information go to our website, studentcam. Org. Welcome to todays conference on Intelligence Surveillance reconnaissance and targeting. This part of the series conducted by Hudson Institution for american seapower. Im seth cropsey, senior fellow here at hudson, and also director of the center for american seapower. I hope that you have monograph the subject of our discussion today, and if you do not, i believe that we still have copies out at the front desk, so by all means pick up a copy on your way out. We are very fortunate to have with us today bryan mcgrath, this man, my friend and coauthor of the monograph was also a retired naval officer, formerly Deputy Director of hudson sector for american seapower, a prolific writer and also managing director of the Ferrybridge Group which is National Security and defense consultancy. Its also a pleasure to welcome david
Alliance with regional and Global Security challenges, this is from hosted by the International Strategic studies. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for coming. Its friday afternoon in august and you know, im delighted that your Summer Vacation plans include csis, but its really a testament to how important, influential and respected our panel today is. Im the senior vicepresident for asia and japan here csis at georgetown. Before we get started we always do a brief safety announcement. And we have about ten fourstar admirals and generals in the room, but this former boy scout will be in charge. If there is a need to evacuate and ill let you know, but well head out and head around the corner to National Geographic down 17th street. Out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation and there should be headsets on your chair. If you have a problem, wave and someone will help you. Please leave them on the chair, if you take them home wed send the new
, there are people, we have motivation and understanding, that is, what we need for victory, people and weapons, thats all, i i wont talk about weapons now, i wont talk about rifles, we have automatic weapons, cartridges, all that stuff, above our heads, drones are constantly needed, and drones come from the ministry of defense, and from volunteers, and through other channels, we buy something ourselves, ammunition for drones, well, you cant help here, you have to do it yourself. Because if you start producing ammunition for drones in the rear, it will be a criminal case, well, weapons and people are what is needed. Of course, i would very much like to see us work according to nato standards, according to the military doctrines of the united states, great britain, france, germany, where the first step for an offensive, the first step for an operation is complete dominance in the air, destruction of enemy aircraft, enemy antiaircraft defense and the task of striking their ground bases,
A logistics center, because the general staff should be in charge of the war . He left yerasimov, and gerasimov, well, no less than shuigu, is responsible for all that the russian generals fortunately failed. In this concept of a long war, which looks so attractive to russia, there is a huge mistake, because the ukrainian war is a composition of two different warriors. On one side there is a huge front line. Along which a classic war of attrition is taking place, as general zaluzhnyi wrote in his famous article, similar to the first world war, and in this long war of attrition, russia already has a strategic advantage, because it has a greater human mobilization resource, a developed militaryindustrial complex, and as you know, in russia the value of human life is much lower, there you can throw unlimited the number of soldiers in the meat attack, but there is another. Component in this ukrainian war the crimean peninsula, the preschool place of the Russian Military machine, zaklau zav