In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once called it the "god of war." ...

Bitter experience in Ukraine has taught Russian artillerymen to be more agile and sophisticated. Their aim is improving.

The Russian ... the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924. Red Army soldiers man the artillery.

The key to Russian operations ... in Napoleon's army. But it could just as easily have been a German soldier at Stalingrad in 1943, or a Ukrainian soldier at Bakhmut in 2023. Artillery is the ...