Kinetic lesson learning is a euphemism for what military and political commanders learn from mistakes, miscalculations, misjudgements, and misfortunes – their own, and their adversary’s. Kinetic is the newspeak; lesson learning, if it happens, is the reality.
A NATO military veteran has reviewed General P.R. Shankar’s detailed assessments of the Ukrainian war published yesterday. The Indian artillery expert’s analysis has been appearing regularly in the Indian media. But Indian military experience has not been getting the attention it warrants in the North American and European press; there a handful of Swiss, German, and US officers have been pitting their expertise against the mainstream media line.