The paper is bad and incoherent. For a supposedly data driven paper it's mostly about the authors' subjective experiences and a selection of anecdotal-grade posts. The few graphs they do choose are unintelligible and aren't even used to support any particular arguments. It'd be a sweet gig to work for a think tank like this where you can just write garbage and collect your NED/oligarch-backed check, but I have a little bit of self-respect.
In some of the war oriented think tanks, you literally just play board games with a bunch of non military business people and call it “war simulation/ war gaming” lol. As if a bunch of lanyards have more meaningful insight into war and logistics than billionaire dollar military exercises and tactics, most of which are already delusional nonsense to begin with.