If you accept that the other Services are better at navigating the choppy waters “inside the beltway”, then I would submit that it is more than simply an issue of narrative – it is a problem that resides in how the Army develops officers.
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.
