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War & Conflict – Preston Stewart The dynamics of this war are shifting by the day We’re joined today by Rob Lee. Rob is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and in my opinion, one of...

Ukraine Military History Podcast Rob Lee is back in Kyiv after another round of frontline visits — from Zaporizhzhia to Donetsk to Kharkiv — talking directly with frontline commanders and the R&D teams building the war’s newest capabilities. In...

In this second installment of *The First Draft of History*, analysts Rob Lee and Dmytro Putiata pick up where they left off to tackle one of the most defining features of the current war in Ukraine: the kill zone....

Welcome to Ukraine Military History — a podcast about how wars are really fought, and won, from the people who’ve fought them. In this opening episode, Samuel Cook and Rob Lee introduce the show: what it covers, who’s behind...

  As Ukraine entered its fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war, it was geopolitics, not the war itself, that dominated headlines, as Kyiv’s relationship with new U.S. President Donald Trump nosedived over a proposed minerals deal. In the meantime...

On August 6, Ukraine launched a bold offensive into Russia’s Kursk region, leveraging surprise and speed to quickly bypass Russian defensive lines. Since then, Ukraine has captured a significant tract of Russian territory and taken hundreds of Russian soldiers...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now into its third year, has confounded many assumptions – both in Moscow and in the West – about the effectiveness of Russian military capabilities, organization and tactics. Russian forces have suffered heavy losses...

Last week, the Russian military opened a new front in its invasion of Ukraine. Launching an offensive into the Kharkiv region, Russian forces quickly advanced several kilometers, managing to reoccupy several villages that were liberated during Ukraine’s successful offensive in September...