Strategist, Benoist Bihan is the author of War: thinking it & doing it. He is also the adviser on military strategy affairs for the journal Wars and History, particularly specialized in the analysis of Russian military thought. He deciphers what appears to be, at first sight, the entry into another phase of the conflict, the encirclement of the capital, Kiev.
Point : Have we really entered another phase of the war with the encirclement of Kiev?
Benoist Bihan: The “police operation” initially attempted not having worked, the Ukrainians resisting, the Russians, without changing their objective, are in the process of modifying their method by gradually switching to a classic military operation. The encirclement of Kiev is however only one of the axes, major on the…