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Ukraine Needs Offensive Weapons—and Needs Them Now

Ukraine Needs Offensive Weapons—and Needs Them Now
A man pushes his bike through debris and destroyed Russian military vehicles on a street in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 6, 2022. TNS
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My column last week ended with this paragraph: “A half-dozen NATO nations are sending Ukraine several hundred tanks, most Cold War Russian relics but serviceable. New air defense systems will arrive, perhaps MiG-29s? End result: Ukraine will have an offensive capacity.”

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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