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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My chapter explores military operations in 2024 and considers how Ukraine, after the failure of its 2023 counteroffensive, partly accepted but also tried to break out of the logic of attritional warfare by mounting operations against Russia's flanks and at its rear. /

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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The August Kursk incursion, especially, demonstrated the continued relevance of flanks and maneuver despite massive advances in sensors and fortifications. The so-called transparency of the battlefield posed formidable defensive obstacles in parts of the operational theater but did not../

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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

alter the basic fact that states face tradeoffs and retain options in their force deployment and that transparency does not equal omniscience as intentions can still remain hidden (see Ukraine's disguising of its concentration of forces in Sumy in summer 2023 as defensive preparations). /

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