Retired Austrian Lieutenant General Christian Segur-Cabanac has described Ukraine’s continued defense against a much larger Russia for over three years as something “between a miracle and a sensation.” “At the beginning of the invasion, I thought it would last only a few weeks—as it was apparently initially planned. But when I saw Russia’s rigid doctrinal approach collide with Ukraine’s more flexible use of forces and resources, I realized this would not be a short campaign, but the emergence of serious resistance. The fact that this war has continued for so long is, for me, somewhere between a miracle and a sensation—I can’t describe it any other way.”