U.S. Military Observers and Why They Are Needed in Ukraine

The framing of the article is misleading, but the main argument is something I've been hearing for a while from the people within the US military establishment. The problem is not lack of observations or of observation capability. The problem is that there is apparently no organized project within the US military for analysis of the Ukrainian war to derive applicable lessons.

We have observers, they are called satellites, twitter, tiktok, CNN, whatsapp, Ukrainians who record and tell the US everything, etc etc

What else do you need to know? Its not 1855

I mean, we already have people on the ground there, informally, this has already been leaked. If we put someone in uniform, and they get shot, then the US has to respond...

to keep the trees at the right height