Episode Notes:

On this episode of the Russia Contingency, Mike is joined again by Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.  Mike and Dara concluded their conversation about the war in Ukraine by discussing some of the aspects of the conflict they got wrong at the outset, why some of their assumptions may not have been accurate before the war started, and what the conflict tells us about Russian military reforms. This is the second of a two-part discussion with Dara.

The Russia Contingency is a bi-weekly podcast featuring in-depth analysis of Russia's military power and the war in Ukraine.