{"id":254695,"date":"2024-08-15T21:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/kursk-2024-update-8-15-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:19","slug":"kursk-2024-update-8-15-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/kursk-2024-update-8-15-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kursk 2024 \u2013 Update 8\/15\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-53271\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>From MilitaryLand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/militaryland_kursk_15aug24.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53272\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/militaryland_kursk_15aug24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/militaryland_kursk_15aug24.png 705w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/militaryland_kursk_15aug24-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/militaryland_kursk_15aug24-624x298.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/maps\/deployment-map\/\">MilitaryLand<\/a>, accessed 8\/15\/2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Notable is that the forces involved include the 22nd and 88th Mechanized Brigades, as well as 80th Air Assault Brigade (along with elements of 82nd and now 95th Air Assault Brigades) (all these IDs from open sources).<\/p>\n<p>Context provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-incursion-putin.html?searchResultPosition=1\">NYT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2024\/08\/14\/the-rights-wrongs-and-risks-of-ukraines-kursk-incursion\">Economist<\/a>. Discussion of operational issues, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/backgrounder\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-14-2024\">ISW yesterday<\/a>. For geospatial context, see this post.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/08\/kursk-2024-update\" title=\"2:29 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2024-08-15T14:29:49-07:00\">August 15, 2024<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/08\/kursk-2024-update\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] From MilitaryLand. Source: MilitaryLand, accessed 8\/15\/2024. Notable is that the forces involved include the 22nd and 88th Mechanized Brigades, as well as 80th Air<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}