Over the past several decades, Major General (ret) David Ząbecki has made a reputation for himself as one of the premier historians of the German side of the First World War…What Ząbecki has produced is a masterful study of leadership at the top: good, bad and indifferent.
President Putin made three foundational assumptions in launching his war against Ukraine that should have been correct but were not. First, Putin assumed the invasion of Ukraine would be a quick and easy fight. Second, he assumed the world would denounce the invasion but tacitly allow it. Third, Putin assumed the war would deter NATO expansion.
