An Indefinite War of Attrition: The Biden Administration’s Strategy for the Russo-Ukrainian War
Journal: The Review of International Affairs
Year: 2025

This paper examines the outgoing US Biden administration’s strategy for the Russo-Ukrainian War and the prospects of its revision under the incoming Donald Trump administration. Building on Stephen Kotkin’s characterisation of this strategy as an “indefinite war of attrition”, the author addresses questions about the origins and the meaning of this strategy, alternatives to it proposed by its critics, and its alignment with the broader US grand strategy, offering answers as to whether Biden’s de