Russia’s 40-mile-long military convoy will be one of the enduring images of the conflict in Ukraine. Broad ridicule of the convoy as evidence of the Russian military’s inability to sustain its invasion forces is well-deserved, but the images are eerily reminiscent of my personal experience in Iraq nearly 20 years ago. As tempting as it can be to focus on our adversaries’ failures, we must take an objective view of our own operations to avoid similar mistakes in the future.
Twenty years afte …