The Army Risks Reasoning Backwards in Analyzing Ukraine - War on the Rocks

Great article about how we’re analyzing Russia’s success in Ukraine. It’s like we’re setting up the wargame, not to determine our weaknesses or gaps and fixing them, but to ensure the Red Team loses. And when the Red Team inevitably loses, because we’ve purposely made it to where they can’t win, we’ll attribute the victory to whatever new strategy we’ve preconceived. Not because we identified gaps in our strategy and closed them.