The Myth of the Russian Army The Russian Army invaded Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. Most Western defense experts and NATO military experts anticipated a rapid Russian Army combined arms attack with massive Russian Air Force precision strikes, and a comprehensive cyber-attack that neutralized all Command and Control (C4I) nodes across the Ukraine. The consensus from these analysts, observers, and experts calculated a 3-5 day operation before the capitulation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Of course, the experts sometimes get things wrong. What is apparent now, is that Western analysts including the collective Western intelligence community not only got it wrong, but didn’t fully understand the true conditions of the Russian Armed Forces. Intelligence services are scrambling to reassess and develop a much more detailed and accurate appreciation of the situation on the ground in Ukraine and more specifically, the status and readiness of the Russian Armed Forces now deployed in the Donba