Retired United States Army General David Petraeus, who was director of the CIA, shared his vision of how to defeat Russia in the war.
In his latest book , Conflict. The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine , co-written with British historian Andrew Roberts, he noted that the battlefield situation in Ukraine was partially reminiscent of the First World War.
However, then the parties fought with more or less equal resources, while the unleashed war by Russia against Ukraine is asymmetrical. Petraeus, in an interview with Voice of America, suggested how Ukraine could win in such conditions.
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— With the help of the United States, other NATO members and Western countries. And also a national dedication to the cause, which Russia does not have. Russia has not fully mobilized in the same way as Ukraine. Ukraine will obviously have to continue to do this because… the Ukrainian population is less than a third of Russia's population, and its economy is even smaller compared to Russia's,” he said.
He added that it is also necessary to strengthen financial, economic, personal sanctions and export restrictions against Russia. And also to convince Moscow that the battlefield in Ukraine is not rational for it and it cannot continue this war, that the price for the rear is too high.
In the book, Petraeus noted that Ukraine is fighting with advanced types of weapons, but not the most advanced ones.
What weapon could turn the tide of the war?
In an interview, David Petraeus noted that a combination of a number of armed systems, some of which the United States has already provided, could turn the tide of the war.
– Like ATACMS ballistic missiles with cluster munitions. They turned out to be very deadly. The provision of F-16s, which the Ukrainian Air Force is likely to receive this winter, will be very important. “I believe that Ukrainian pilots are exceptional and they will very quickly switch from MiG and SU aircraft to F-16,” he said.
More drones would also help, he said. Petraeus thinks it would be good to increase Switchblade production. All this, as well as air defense and counter-battery systems, as General Valery Zaluzhny wrote about in an essay for The Economist, he noted.
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