The problem is that no one likes the questions because they are too hard or the answers are too uncomfortable. So you get idiots like Blinken and Nuland and Jake Sullivan running the show. And then you get surprise when you cannot counterattack against Russian fortified positions without losing lots and lots of men.
Which is about the outcome that anyone who actually looked serioursly at what the Russians do when the fight wars. No one who knew much about Russia should have been surprised at their overwhelming overmatch of the West in artillery. Our military wasn't either. They just thought Russia couldn't keep it up because they couldn't manufacture much. After all the west can't and Russia is inferior to the west in manufacturing so Russia can't. That is what passes for analysis here in DC.
And I have taken economic strategy courses. And in energy market courses. And I have read Clausewitz, Mahan, and Herman Kahn, etc. ad infinitum.
You people are impressed by MacGregor because you are otherwise unused to this sort of discussion.