Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It

– Ukraine is suffering from a growing military manpower crisis in addition to a lack of arms and ammunition;

– Trained military manpower takes up to half a year to produce, new brigade-sized units can take up to 30 months to stand up;

– Ukraine and its Western sponsors simply cannot produce trained military manpower faster than Russia is removing it from the battlefield;

– This leaves the collective West with the choice of either accepting it has lost its proxy war with Russia, or attempting to intervene more directly;

References:

NEO – Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It (March 5, 2024):

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It

The Kyiv Independent – Ukraine struggles to ramp up mobilization as Russia’s war enters 3rd year (March 3, 2024):
https://kyivindependent.com/move-to-e…

The Washington Post – Front-line Ukrainian infantry units report acute shortage of soldiers (February 8, 2024):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/…

US Department of Defense – The National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) (2023-2024):
https://www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS….

NEO – Fatal Flaws Undermine America’s Defense Industrial Base (February 15, 2024):
https://journal-neo.su/2024/02/15/fat…

US Department of Defense – Press Release: Evaluation of Sustainment Strategies for the Patriot Air Defense Systems Transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces (DODIG-2024-056) and Evaluation of the DoD’s Sustainment Plan for Bradley, Stryker, and Abrams Armored Weapon Systems (February 20, 2024):
https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotligh…

Reuters – Ukraine considers proposal by army to mobilise another 500,000 for war (December 2023):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/…

Reuters – Who are the forces involved in Ukraine’s counteroffensive? (June 2023):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/…

US DoD – Defense Officials Hold Media Brief on the Training of Ukrainian Military (March 2022):
https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcri…

The US Army War College Quarterly – Expanding Brigade Combat Teams: IS the Training Base Adequate? (2017):
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/…