After nearly a year of a grim defensive battle, the Kursk operation has also allowed Ukraine to seize the initiative and force Moscow to dance to Kyiv's tune.
I'm sure historians are going to argue for decades about whether that combat power would have been better spent defending the east versus what it did in the Kursk campaign.
The Ukrainians now have contested the initiative. The Russians no longer hold the initiative across the entirety of the theater, like they have for most of last year.
Instead of risking everything on a single big offensive, the better option would be a series of smaller offensives against weak points in the defense.
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