Leaked Pentagon Papers: Key Implications

In this post, I summarise the key insights and implications we can draw from the leaked Pentagon Papers pertaining to Ukraine.

Insight 1: Ukraine is equipping and training three new brigades, and the US/NATO another nine, to launch a counteroffensive with 12 brigades in total. There is no information on the Ukrainian brigades’ readiness level in the documents, and they are supposed to provide their own equipment. The documents report that five out of the nine brigades that NATO…