Episode Notes:

What led to the failure of Ukraine's offensive in 2023? What did we learn about Ukraine's offensive operations in the first two years of the war? Mike sits down with Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, to answer these questions and more. Their discussion centers around the Institute's report, "Preliminary Lessons from Ukraine’s Offensive Operations, 2022–23," published on July 18, and is the second of a two-part episode with Jack. If you haven't listened to the first episode, you can do so here.