Doug Livermore and Alexander Noyes
Ukrainian special operations forces are stepping up efforts to sabotage railroads and other Russian targets, which are key to Moscow's logistics strategy supporting their war of attrition in Ukraine. The United States and other like-minded allies should likewise ramp up support to organize, train, equip, and share intelligence with Ukrainian national resistance warfare efforts. Doing so could help tip the balance in Ukraine's favor.
These unconventional operations harken back to tactics used by the United States and other allies in World War II in German-occupied areas. The U.S Defense Department currently defines resistance as, "a nation's organized, whole-of-society effort," both violent and non-violent, to "reestablish independence and autonomy within its sovereign territory that has been wholly or partially occupied by a foreign power."
Ukraine has effectively used this form of irregular warfare to help repel Russia's unprovoked invasion in weeks and months following February 2022, and in currently occupied areas–approximately 18 percent of Ukraine.
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