Seth Jones

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | January 31st, 2026: American Firepower Gathers at Iran’s Doorstep & The Cost of Putin’s War · 31 Jan 2026 podcast

They're poor at joint warfare.

And I think we've seen things like corruption start to manifest themselves in logistics problems.

So I think there are a range of things from technology to the defense on the Ukrainian side to just poor Russian strategy operations and tactics that are leading to those high numbers.

We did, and we've been tracking that since the beginning of the war.

They have certainly evolved actually, the brigade and battalion levels.

I think the challenge that we found in the organizational structure was more actually how they were trying to take territory.

A lot of dismounted infantry moving into what they call the no man's land, and then exploiting essentially

criminals that have been released from prison or what the Russians will also do is bring in a number of people and use them for those purposes from Siberia in the Far East or down in the North Caucasus.

So Chechnya and Dagestan, not sort of your white Russians.

So for them, they're expendable for Putin.

And they've also used North Koreans for that as well.

So there's a little bit of also how they're fighting along those lines and who they consider expendable.

And I think that the thing that continues to surprise me is how the Russian average rates of advance have just not changed dramatically.

I mean, they were able to take some territory, a chunk of territory right at the beginning of the war.

in late February of 2022 and then into early March.

But since then, most of the offensive operations, they're just they're grinding away and they just haven't gotten better.

I mean, we have seen in some previous wars, militaries evolve the strategically, operationally, tactically to figure out how to do

fire and maneuver, joint warfare, forward deployed forces, getting fighter aircraft to strike targets so it really allows them to maneuver on the ground.

And we just haven't seen those kind of improvements in the Russian military.

In the middle of a war, it is always difficult.

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