Mike sits down with Dara Massicot to discuss findings from their recent visit to Ukraine. They consider exhaustion and diminishing returns on both sides, the...

Mike sits down in Ukraine with Oleksandr "Flint" Nastenko, commander of the 475th Separate Assault Regiment, better known as CODE 9.2. Nastenko explains how his...

powervertical · WAR UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT On the surface, not much seems to have changed on the battlefield in the weeks since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky upended his military leadership.…

Joseph Stalin famously said that quantity has a quality of its own. Yet the course of the Russo-Ukrainian War shows both the benefits and the eventual

Moscow’s military power after Ukraine.

Mike sits down with Francis Farrell, a frontline reporter for the Kyiv Independent and one of the few journalists still working far forward in eastern...

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, much that could go wrong did for the Russian military. As one volunteer

Podcast Episode · The Long Game with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer · June 4 · 1h 10m

Military analyst Michael Kofman says “time is increasingly not on Russia’s side.”

Mike sits down with Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, fresh off a trip to Ukraine, to take stock of a war that may...

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, much that could go wrong did for the Russian military. As one volunteer

Mike talks with Sergey Vakulenko, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Berlin and former Russian energy sector insider, about the mounting pressures on Russia's oil industry through...

Podcast Episode · War on the Rocks · April 9 · 28m

Michael Kofman and Rob Lee continue their discussion of the Russo-Ukrainian War based on their latest field study. They assess the battlefield outlook for 2026,...

Michael Kofman and Rob Lee compare notes on developments in the Russo-Ukrainian War based on their latest field study. They discuss the evolution of Russian...

Mike talks with Oscar Jonsson and Maria Engqvist about Russian thinking on the future of war. They discuss how Russian military thinkers view the lessons...

Российское полномасштабное вторжение в Украину длится уже четыре года. За это время тактика ведения военных действий и ключевые системы вооружений кардинально изменились. Станет ли украинский опыт обр...

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Mike is joined by Dara Massicot to reassess the war and the debates that have defined it....

The fight for advantage in the conflict’s fifth year.

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt depiction of the current discourse

The fight for advantage in the conflict’s fifth year.

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt depiction of the current discourse

Mike is joined by Ryan for a wide-ranging, year-in-review of the war in Ukraine. They walk through the major phases of fighting in 2025, examining...

The White House says it’s making “tremendous progress” on a peace plan for Ukraine. And there might be a deal as soon as Thanksgiving Day. US and Ukrainian officials have been modifying a 28-point pea...

Michael Kofman and Rob Lee return with fresh insights from their latest field study in Ukraine. Their conversation covers how Russia is adapting to Ukrainian...

powervertical · THE BATTLE OF POKROVSK Russia continues to focus its firepower on the strategic and battered eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said th…

Michael Kofman and Dara Massicot join Ryan to discuss the state of the front, how Ukraine and Russia are staying in the fight, the possible provision of

Moving from ceasefire to full settlement

Following a dramatic meeting in the White House, U.S. military support for Ukraine is perilously uncertain. Sustaining Ukraine in this war, and

powervertical · THE GUNS AND DRONES OF SUMMER Russia’s summer offensive is in full swing with Moscow capitalizing on a series of small advances in an attempt to reshape control of the front l…

MPs fearing prosecution refuse to vote on bill that restores independence of anti-corruption agencies

War on the Rocks · Episode