russian perspective? what s going on, do you think? they certainly have a much, much bigger air force than the ukrainians. i think one thing is a lack of precision-guided munitions, so we saw this in the russian campaign in syria, that they used dumb bombs a lot, which, you know, are capable of causing widespread destruction and are very dangerous to civilians, but don t help you very much to achieve military objectives. so that s one reason. and perhaps another reason, experts on the russian military doctrine will tell you there s a doctrinal difference here. the western mission is air power focused. the first weeks of a campaign like this, if you look, for instance, at the comparison with the gulf war in 91 or the iraq war in 2003, you know, the initial objectives are very much around air power, and you don t apply land power until you ve really saturated the opposition
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