Russian Analysis: Five Million Soldiers Needed (I was Right!)

Russian conscript soldier.

There are moments in every life when your own view of the world is so out-of-synch with the outlook of the Experts, that you wonder what is wrong with them (not wrong with you, of course!).

In an article at the start of the war, I looked at ratios, like the number of German troops needed in WW2 to take Ukraine, and the ratio of American troops needed to…