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Abandonned munitions crates are seen on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on Sept. 14, 2022. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images
No matter the outcome on the battlefield, the Ukraine War already has a clear winner: that small band of long-range planners, logisticians, and military analysts who have insisted “cutting corners in maintaining war reserve stocks was a false economy ...”
Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
