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Vladimir Putin's Ragtag Army

Mobilization has brought society to a breaking point.

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Luke Johnson
Oct 30, 2022
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“As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time,” former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously said in 2004, dismissive…

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