{"product_id":"1505532","title":"How Ukrainians Lead","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccenter\u003eHow Ukrainians Lead\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine, the enemy met a military transformed.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow boasted its army would be in Kyiv in three days. In the 60-kilometre long Russian armoured column aimed at Kyiv, enemy troops had packed their dress uniforms anticipating a ‘victory’ parade in the Ukrainian capital.\u003cbr\u003eThe assessment of Western allies gave Ukraine little or no chance at the onset of the David and Goliath battle. Ukrainians had other ideas. Across the country ordinary people self-mobilised. That defiance – historical, visceral and spontaneous – was distilled in the Ukrainian military, a ‘new model’ army more than ready to face the existential challenge.\u003cbr\u003eThe hubris of ‘three days in the capital’ became the Battle of Kyiv; and after 30 days Russian forces were in full retreatacross north Ukraine.\u003cbr\u003eNow, for the first time, some of the architects of the transformation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) tell their story in a remarkable book HOW UKRAINIANS LEAD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey include former AFU Chief of Staff General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi who is now Ukraine’s ambassador to London.\u003cbr\u003eThe candour of the contributors and the fact that the book is being published are testament to a key theme in the transformation of the AFU: jettisoning the Soviet era mentality that still informs the Russian army.\u003cbr\u003eOne difference illustrates the wider trend. The Russian army still uses its infamous ‘barrier’ units, troops tasked with ensuring advancing units do not retreat, by shooting them if necessary.\u003cbr\u003eThere is no such thing in the Ukrainian military.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe years since 2014 saw reforms across all areas of the AFU, from military philosophy and training to command and control and armed forces infrastructure.\u003cbr\u003eKey to it all was the critical issue of leadership, not just at the highest levels but cascaded through the ranks. The new military doctrine rejected the Soviet\/Russian approach with its rigid hierarchies, rule by fear and the brutal suppression of all individual initiative.\u003cbr\u003eIn its place the AFU moved to a philosophy where outcomes trump processes, flexibility and initiative are encouraged and responsibility is devolved through the ranks.\u003cbr\u003eMany small differences added up to the difference that enabled the far smaller Ukrainian military with far fewer weapons systems, to take on and more than equal the Russian invader.\u003cbr\u003eThe roll call of resulting success included the sinking of the Russian Black Sea flagship Moskva, the Kharkiv counteroffensive, the recovery of occupied Kherson and the Operation ‘Spider Web’ drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rules of war are being rewritten not by Russia but by Ukraine which has created a new paradigm for military leadership that puts a premium on creativity, flexibility and the taking of responsibility at all levels.\u003cbr\u003eOne commander deployed his troops on the eve of the full-scale invasion despite receiving no written order. It was an act that could have seen him arrested and tried.\u003cbr\u003eIn short, he took responsibility and acted. 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