Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California, and an adjunct professor in the practice of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California. He formerly served as an intelligence adviser at the Pentagon.
Ukraine’s audacious, creative, and, apparently, highly successful counterattacks on strategic targets across Russia have already challenged traditional assumptions and concepts of modern asymmetric warfare — i.e. unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of powers are significantly unequal.
