Military briefing: ‘anaemic’ Russian advance heralds long war of attrition

It’s important to remember we have very little to judge the tempo of this conflict against, where you have two relative peers fighting over huge territory,” said Sam Cranny-Evans, an analyst at UK think-tank the Royal United Services Institute. “When you are talking about one very well-motivated side, versus a less well-motivated, but better-equipped side, imperfectly led, how do you assess what kind of pace operations should be going at to be successful or not?” He added: “We shouldn’t forget the Russians have already advanced an equivalent depth to the whole of Estonia. [If you transposed this campaign] they would have overrun the Baltic in a few days.”