Military intelligence analyst Rebekah Koffler discusses the Kremlin's reaction to President Biden allowing Ukraine to fire long-range U.S. missiles deep into Russian territory on 'Fox News Live.'

The "Fog of War" is the strategic message that Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to signal last week to President Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Pentagon and military and political leaders across the U.S. and NATO.

This iconic metaphor, coined by the renowned Prussian military strategist Karl Von Clausewitz in his seminal work "On War," connotes the inherent uncertainty that military commanders face when making life and death decisions in wartime. It is because the commander never actually has a clear and full picture of what is taking place on the battlefield. Clausewitz explained that "three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty," comparing such conditions with the lack of clarity during twilight.

This is exactly the type of confusion and psychological impact that Putin sought to create and has likely achieved when Russia fired an experimental hypersonic ballistic missile, striking a weapons production plant in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. This was in retaliation against Ukrainian strikes on a Russian military facility in Bryansk with U.S. made long-range missiles called ATACMS, after President Biden had given Zelenskyy permission to do so.

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Russia’s striking Ukraine with a weapon that has never been used in a war before caused temporary confusion in Washington and Kyiv as to the nature of the missile.

Fragments of a rocket that struck Dnipro on Nov. 21 are seen at a center for forensic analysis at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The media reported, based on official statements from Kyiv, that the missile in question was an........

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