Russia can't match the US military's hardware, but it has other ways to keep it from working properly

• The war in Ukraine has vividly demonstrated the shortcomings of Russia's military.
• The war has shown that Russia's armed forces likely aren't much of a match for the US military.
• But Russian information operations could still affect US forces, a US government watchdog says.

The war in Ukraine has laid bare the shortcomings of the Russian military. Once perceived as a conventional near-peer threat, the Russian military now appears to be more of a paper tiger.

In more than a year of combat in Ukraine, Russia is estimated to have lost roughly 200,000 troops killed or wounded and thousands of heavy weapon systems, according to Western intelligence assessments.