Russian Logistics in the Ukrainian War: Can Operational Failures be Attributed to logistics?
By: Per Skoglund, Tore Listou and Thomas Ekström
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.158 | Journal eISSN: 2596-3856
Language: English
Page range: 99 - 110
Submitted on: May 15, 2022
Accepted on: Jul 8, 2022
Published on: Sep 8, 2022
Published by: Scandinavian Military Studies
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