cesmonkey

The Austrian colonel is back with another analysis video:

https://static.rusi.org/heavy-armoured-forces-in-future-warfare-occasional-paper-december-23.pdf Heavy Armoured Forces in Future Combined Arms Warfare

A 24-page analysis / plan from Estonia:

If you read WarGonzo's update for today, you might conclude the situation is not so negative: https://t.me/wargonzo/16988

Perhaps for some congressional Republicans, but the reality is always more complicated than what can be summed up in a tweet. It's not over yet.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3615582/biden-administration-announces-new-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Perhaps, but the Democrats face a tough challenge keeping their Senate majority in 2024 based on which seats will be up for election:

I wonder if the EU could buy some military assistance from the U.S. to give to Ukraine?

Hard to say what's going to happen. Maybe they can eek out a small of renewed funding before of the end of year, kind of like a budget continuing resolution?

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3608913/biden-administration-announces-new-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

A look at Palmer Lucky's defense startup, including brief interviews with him and his executives.

Another BBC story. This one about a former British sniper that died in Ukraine:

A not-to-happy Ukrainian soldier involved in the Dnipro attritional fight:

I think the problem is that the writer of the news article left a misleading impression, or at least it could be interpreted in such a way that this was the first crew of actual Ukrainians to be trained on the Patriots. There have been interviews before with Ukrainian Patriot crews talking about their successes, like this one from CNN: In the video from June, the crew says they were trained at Fort Sill for two months.

CNN article: