NATO Should Measure Russia’s Ability to Reproduce Military Capabilities, Not Just Adapt
Russia’s war against Ukraine has given Moscow something no peacetime exercise could provide: a vast body of real combat experience. Russian forces have tested new tactics, absorbed… 
Russia’s war against Ukraine has given Moscow something no peacetime exercise could provide: a vast body of real combat experience. Russian forces have tested new tactics, absorbed painful losses, improvised under pressure and adapted across several areas of modern warfare — from drones and electronic warfare to air defense, logistics, command-post survival and reconnaissance-strike coordination.
For NATO, this experience matters. But the central question is not simply whether Russia has learned from the war. It is whether Russia can reproduce those lessons across the wider force.
That distinction is critical.
A Russian unit may discover an effective way to hide command posts…
