Written analysis drawn from the podcast, grouped by subject. 21 pieces across 9 episodes, organised into 7 running topics.
Rob Lee on why accuracy rather than reach keeps targets in Moscow off the list, what Russia's Geran strike on the SBU building proved about video guidance, and why the next month decides the winter.
A Third Corps commander ranks leadership and training above drones. Dmytro Putiata explains why Mykhailo Drapatyi inherits a centralised army whose unmanned systems forces can be asked, not ordered.
Rob Lee on North Korean troops learning FPV tactics, Russian UAV crews going to Africa, the Middle East and Latin America after the war, and Hezbollah fielding fiber optic FPVs the IDF cannot yet counter.
Rob Lee on why a single Patriot interceptor against an Iskander 9M723 is often a 50% guess, why SAMP/T, factory strikes and Firepoint offer no quick fix, and Dmytro Putiata on knowing where Russian launchers hide but being unable to catch them.
Rob Lee on how civilian TikTok videos of Russian trains, a record Black Sea naval deployment, 85% of BTGs moved and no covering exercise separated the pre-invasion buildup from the war scares of 2016 to 2018.
Rob Lee on why Ukraine now holds the upper hand in middle strike, from FP-2 drones with 100 kg warheads to Starlink cut off from Russian Molniya, and Dmytro Putiata on why buried command posts need cruise missiles, not drones.
Iskander, KN-23 and S-400 ground-attack missiles can land seconds after the alarm. Rob Lee and Dmytro Putiata on North Korean launchers under the Moscow Military District, the Patriot shortage, and why Starlink-connected Hornet drones could hunt Iskander launchers within 500 km of the border.
Deep-strike drones are not precision weapons: 15 to 30 percent get through and one missed a factory by 100 metres. Dmytro Putiata on why burning refineries keep working, and the economic campaign both sides are now fighting.
Why strikes on fuel and power register with Russians when casualties do not, how the negotiating leverage shifted, and Ryan O’Leary on the governance trap waiting in occupied Crimea.
Rob Lee on Russian attrition now running level with recruitment, why that stops new units forming, what mobilisation would change, and the Azov-direction assault that showed Russia learning tactically.
Francis Farrell argues the thing preventing Russia testing the Baltics is Ukraine holding at Sloviansk, and that Europe is signalling to Putin that it will not come. Plus the miscalculation that worries Samuel Cook.
Brave1's CEO says Russia is fielding fully automated drones before the AI is good enough, that they are destroying civilian objects, and that Ukraine keeps a human in the loop at a real cost.
Rob Lee on 1,000 drones in a night, St Petersburg hit during its own economic forum, why Russian glide bombs cannot reach past the front, and the FP-2 doing an air force's job.
TB2 at $50,000, Hornet at $3,500, Dart near $2,000, and a Ukrainian officer correcting the Molniya price on air. Plus what happened to Russia's UGVs when Starlink went away.
Dmytro Putiata on the 11th Army Corps, why a corps can succeed without owning its brigades, and the two depth bands of middle strike, including striking where drone crews sleep.
Ryan O'Leary on how 2023 drone assaults really worked, one drone per four men, and Rob Lee on the Skala breach at Ternove that had nobody behind it to exploit.
Brave1 CEO Andrii Hrytseniuk on 50,000 UGVs contracted, 100,000 missions in seven months, buggies that drive themselves home empty, and why the metric is missions not machines.
Francis Farrell and Rob Lee on why middle strike bites in the open south and stalls in the urban east, why Russia's adaptation was always coming, and what jet-powered Shaheds change.
Rob Lee and Francis Farrell on why Russia's campaign in Europe has failed by its own measure, why the escalation lines kept being drawn too conservatively, and what NATO is still not learning.
Rob Lee on the measurable result of middle strike, Russian interceptor teams pulled back to guard highways, why the window narrowed, and why Gerans are not yet cutting logistics.
Rob Lee on why Russia sabotages Europe while losing in Ukraine, why the Baltic Fleet being committed matters, and why sanctions removed the restraint that used to hold.
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