Digging Below the Death Zone: An Analysis of John Spencer and Drew Craig’s Examination of Ukraine’s Underground War through the Lenses of Maneuver Warfare, Mission Command, and the Generations of War

John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute and a founding member of the International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare, together with Colonel Drew Craig of NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, have produced a timely and necessary corrective in their 12 August 2026 article “Digging Below the Death Zone: The Underground W…