Most analysts today believe that the use of military force in Ukraine will continue for many years to come. It may take decades for the West to accept that the war in Ukraine, just like other modern wars, will not be won on the battlefield.
In my opinion piece in this paper on March 20 last year, I was the first to predict a “war of attrition”. I ended my piece by saying that the “only moral winner in this conflict will be the one who has the courage to end it”.
The Western war effort in Afghanistan lasted from 2001 until 2021. It accumulated
