What Does Putin Want Now? - with Fred Kagan
b'What are his objectives at this point in his war against Ukraine? And what are Ukraine\\u2019s objectives? What are US objectives? After all, the goals of different leaders in wartime often evolve based on battlefield developments. \\n\\nAre objectives shifting right now before our eyes\\u2026for Putin, Zelensky, and the US and NATO? And has the likelihood that Putin would use a limited nuclear strike changed as his objectives have evolved?\\n\\nTo help us think all this through, military analyst and historian Fred Kagan returns to the podcast. Fred is the director of the American Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute and a former professor of military history at West Point, where he taught for ten years. His books include Lessons for a Long War and End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805. He also regularly briefs and advises senior US military commanders. \\n\\n Fred earned his PhD in Russian and Soviet military history at Yale University. He is fluent in Russian.\\n\\n \\nTo follow Fred Kagan\\u2019s work, the easiest way to do that is to go to AEI.org\\n\\nAnd the report we discuss on this episode \\u2013 \\u201cRussian General Officer Guide\\u201d can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/3e8bzrex'