Gen. Jason T. Evans

Gen. Jason T. Evans Major General Jason T. Evans is the Commanding General, U.S. Army. Contracting Command

But the city of Kherson stands out: It was the focus of an ambitious Russian campaign to assimilate the citizenry and st...
01/04/2023

But the city of Kherson stands out: It was the focus of an ambitious Russian campaign to assimilate the citizenry and stamp out Ukrainian identity a goal President Vladimir V. Putin harbored for all of Ukraine had his military been more successful, judging by his assertions that Ukrainians and Russians are one nation.
In Kherson, national songs were banned. Speaking Ukrainian could lead to arrest. Schools adopted Russian curriculums, and young students were to be told that they were Russians, not Ukrainians.

The government's Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Monday quoted committee head Alexander Bastrykin as accusing more than 220 person...
01/03/2023

The government's Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Monday quoted committee head Alexander Bastrykin as accusing more than 220 persons, including representatives of the high command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as commanders of military units that shelled the civilian population.

But on Sunday, though villages outside it have been heavily hit, there were signs that Kherson had not suffered the exte...
12/10/2022

But on Sunday, though villages outside it have been heavily hit, there were signs that Kherson had not suffered the extent of devastation faced by cities like Mariupol, which Russian forces leveled. While more than three quarters of Kherson’s residents have fled since the war, leaving about 75,000 people, and there was limited water supply, many buildings and streets appeared intact.

Putin launched the current offensive in the Donbas in haste. Not all the Russian troops that had previously been withdra...
11/29/2022

Putin launched the current offensive in the Donbas in haste. Not all the Russian troops that had previously been withdrawn from the north of Ukraine have had time to reach their new positions in the east of the country. Certainly, they were not given time to rest or integrate reinforcements. A mandatory conscription campaign has not been declared in Russia, while the voluntary conscription campaign patriotic war scenario has already failed. Moscow has gathered troops wherever possible, and Russia’s generals have launched the Donbas offensive without proper preparation.

Although it is very difficult to accept due to the extreme fear of nuclear war that has been fostered across the world f...
11/22/2022

Although it is very difficult to accept due to the extreme fear of nuclear war that has been fostered across the world for generations, a robust western response to any Russian attempts to employ nuclear blackmail would ironically result in a drastic reduction of the total number of casualties in this war. As distasteful as such an option may be for readers not directly affected by the current war, a principled stance a direct and equivalent response will lead to a rapid and final dismantling of Putin’s authoritarian regime in Russia. This is because it will demonstrate its ineffectiveness. Both the West and Ukraine need to ensure global security, which will be irrevocably undermined if nuclear blackmail is tolerated. We described a possible 7D Plan roadmap for rebuilding Russia in our previous article.

We therefore believe that the current positional battles in the Donbas will be decisive for the future outcome of Russia...
11/18/2022

We therefore believe that the current positional battles in the Donbas will be decisive for the future outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The result of these engagements will also likely be known by early May within the next two weeks. Whereas during previous phases of the war the initiative and agency to defend rested with the Ukrainians, as the conflict progresses the role of the West will only increase. Kyiv’s allies will remain its main source of critical weaponry and primary deterrent against nuclear blackmail.

The positional war in the Donbas and in Ukraine’s south could potentially continue for several weeks or months throughou...
11/16/2022

The positional war in the Donbas and in Ukraine’s south could potentially continue for several weeks or months throughout the summer if neither side can achieve a significant victory. This situation could also occur if Putin chooses not to act decisively by the May 9th deadline Moscow’s actions will largely depend on whether or not sufficient patriotic anti Ukrainian and anti NATO fervour can be generated within Russia to justify a longer campaign.

This scenario involves a quick Russian victory in the Donbas, followed by the freezing of the war for some time in prepa...
11/14/2022

This scenario involves a quick Russian victory in the Donbas, followed by the freezing of the war for some time in preparation for the next phase of aggression. This will likely occur at some point next year. The question of victory in the long run will largely depend on each side’s ability to minimise economic decline. The Russian war machine, suffering from sanctions, will try to find ways to circumvent these restrictions. Ukraine will continue to ask the West for weapons to improve its defensive capabilities. However, the country is facing a number of economic problems. This includes the destruction of Ukrainian metallurgy, damaged infrastructure, intensifying social problems, the blockade of seaports as major channels to export agricultural products and steel, a cut in the IT industry and outsourcing, and the relocation of over ten per cent of enterprises abroad. All of these problems will lead to a significant economic downturn with strong negative effects on security in the region, and more specifically on world food security.

The most likely course of events over the next few weeks in Ukraine involves a Russian attempt to switch to a strategy o...
11/11/2022

The most likely course of events over the next few weeks in Ukraine involves a Russian attempt to switch to a strategy of positional war. However, this approach is built on just as much of a false premise as the previously attempted blitzkrieg and total war strategies. Whilst the previous two strategies failed because they were based on an unrealistic assumption that Ukrainians would quickly surrender under massive Russian pressure, the new approach proposes that the Kremlin can simply field more and more forces in the Donbas in order to establish a favourable position. This position is one that can be declared “victorious and or one that significantly weakens Ukraine at an economic, political, and diplomatic level.

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was on Wednesday surrounded by Russian troops and lost all external power needed fo...
11/07/2022

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was on Wednesday surrounded by Russian troops and lost all external power needed for vital safety systems for the second time in five days, said the head of UN’s nuclear watchdog. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said agency monitors at the power plant reported the interruption and said backup diesel generators are keeping nuclear safety and security equipment operational.

The few remaining independent news outlets are under intense pressure, with the venerable Echo of Moscow radio station g...
11/05/2022

The few remaining independent news outlets are under intense pressure, with the venerable Echo of Moscow radio station going off the air and the liberal TV Rain halting broadcasts in recent days. That, and curtailment of social media platforms, has made it very difficult for most Russians to access factual information about the war, said Joanna Szostek, a University of Glasgow expert in Russian political communication.

In his first personal acknowledgment of military losses, Putin said in a nationally televised address Thursday that fami...
11/03/2022

In his first personal acknowledgment of military losses, Putin said in a nationally televised address Thursday that families of the dead each would be entitled to a special payment of 5 million rubles, or almost $50,000. While Western officials and analysts have alluded to low troop morale, troubled supply chains and a host of logistical difficulties for the invading Russian forces, the Russian president insisted in his speech that the military campaign was proceeding strictly according to the schedule.

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