ISW: Стратегия Путина может потерпеть крах

The "victory theory" also holds that Putin's army will advance, suffering heavy losses, but military operations will achieve gradual tactical success.

Nonsense.. repeatedly throwing troops away in suicidal attacks over open terrain is a recipe for one's own troops to revolt or it should be.

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."

Sun Tzu