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On Wars, Battles, and Military Operations: Defining Success | The Vineyard of the Saker

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By Mansoureh Tajik for the Saker blog

Hitting, succeeding, and capturing, all these things, if they are not with a spiritually sacred dimension, they are nothing but defeat.”[1]

– Imam Khomeini

Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, a response to a larger compound war that had percolated for several years, has been the subject of much quasi analyses. A vast majority of the compositions involves ad hoc cursory descriptions that concentrate on the “mechanics” of sub-operations within the operation, laical aims beneath the goal, secularly-defined methods & means, and varied temporal aftereffects discharged into a future material outcome that is concealed for now. In all these though, the critical “quintessence” has gone AWOL.

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October 11, 2022
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Good and necessary link to a thought-provoking incisively written article .

PutinOnTheRitz
October 12, 2022

I prefer writers that eschew obfuscating with sesquipedalian loquaciousness.

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