First off, my official Ukraine national team hockey jersey has arrived! Looks great, fits great, I’m thrilled. I cannot recommend the Ukrainian Music and Gift Shop, as well as its owner Andrey, enough! Click across and do some shopping if you’re interested.
I just want to deal with a couple of things in the comments from last night/this morning before we get into the meat of the update. First up Wvng:
As a member of Clan McPherson I say ” Meow!”
My housemate when I was doing my first masters in Scotland was a Lees, which is part of Clan McPherson. Which is why I knew the clan motto and used it last night.
Next up some guy named Carlo:
Meanwhile UA officers are getting lectured by the academic stars of the US Army War College—the modern counterpart of the Prussian/German General Staff pros—on combined-arms operations and tactics, weapons, logistics, intelligence, etc.
I am sorry to have to disabuse you of this lovely notion, but no one at US Army War College is lecturing anyone on any of those things except, maybe, logistics and intelligence at the strategic level. It is not what is done there. The US Army War College is the Senior Leader College (SLC) that focuses on the strategic application of landpower. While I’m sure there have been curricular changes since my assignment there ended, the core resident course is Theories of War and Strategy, National Security Strategy and Policy, Strategic Leadership, Theater Strategy and Campaigning, Defense Management, and a Regional Studies elective. They may or may not have put Strategic Thinking or something equivalent back into the curriculum rather than distribute the lessons throughout the rest of the core. Everyone has to take a regional study course, the elective is the students get to pick which one they’re interested in. And then the students all take several electives. And they do a strategy research project (SRP), which is sort of equivalent to a masters thesis. The curriculum is directed via the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 1800.01f/The Officers’ Professional Military Education Policy (OPMEP). The Senior Leader Colleges provide Joint Professional Military Education Level 2 (JPME2) education. You can find the requirements for what must be taught in Enclosure A pages A1 through the top of A6 of the OPMEP. Some of the commanders of the US military elements that are training Ukrainian personnel are US Army War College graduates or the graduates of the other Senior Leader Colleges. I taught Theories of War and Strategy, National Security Policy and Strategy, did lesson blocks covering my specialty in several of the Regional Studies electives, taught my own elective on culture for strategy and policy, and did lesson blocks in other electives, as well as the specialty Advanced Strategic Arts Program and National Security and Strategy Program courses.
Here is President Zelesnkyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump:
War for Ukraine Day 335: A Few Odds and EndsPost + Comments (98)