War Studies
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1/ Putin Withdraws Russia from Nuclear Treaty - Speech Summary https://t.co/SKDq46edTC
What if you launched a war against your neighbours, not to gain land or treasure, but to forcibly create new people? The Iroquois Wars for Mourning, Grief, Revenge and Beavers in...
Hybrid War: High-tech, Information, and Cyber Conflicts 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 Analyses of geopolitical and geostrategic environments have hinted at a reformulation of both the philosophy and...
A short thread here about why so some scholars including in intl relations are saying useless things about the Ukraine war. Nearly thirty years ago, political science as a field b...
What if genocide, not war, was considered the central problem of International Relations? How would the study of international relations be different? I ask that question of my In...
A couple weeks ago I caught some flak from Caitlin Johnstone since I didn’t offer any evidence when I pointed out the nonsense in her Ukraine essay. You wanted receipts, @caitoz?...
Many people dismiss propaganda and disinformation as marginal, but they are key to Russia’s war on Ukraine. Putin’s main propaganda message: if you arm Ukraine more than I wish, th...
A short list of high ranking and notable Nazis who were absorbed by NATO after WW2 🧵 https://t.co/j2B7v6JBFE
BETTER THAN IT COULD BE, BUT WORSE THAN IT SHOULD BE. Quick thoughts on 6 months of Russia's war in Ukraine. 1) This is likely a protracted war for years to come that will go on un...
The piece from Petraeus on Afghanistan is a fascinating down-payment on what’s likely to become a booming cottage industry of revisionist histories on the war, grounded in retrospe...
Alright team, I owe you guys a thread on battle theory. Let's talk force employment and why no single weapon system is ever going to be a "game-changer" in modern war... at least...
It is 112 days since the Russian invasion of #Ukraine. Today, an examination of the Battle of the Luhansk Pocket, and the political, operational and tactical considerations involve...
Speaking of the Russo-Ukrainian war, a number of commentators begin from the premise a nuclear power cannot lose a war. This is utter nonsense, and dangerous nonsense. 1/10
So let me be a Kissinger oracle here for a second, since I've read a lot about Kissinger, I dare say more than many people on Twitter. The correct historical reference for interpre...
The richer the Russians are, the more they support the war in Ukraine. At least that's a result of a poll by the Russian field sociological agency presented in this RBK infographic...
I was going to do a thread today on the implications of Ukraine’s offensive around Kharkiv. Instead, I have pushed that to tomorrow in order to discuss the Russian river crossing o...
There is a general misconception in Europe and the US that the war in Ukraine is only about Russia and the ”West”. It is not. Ramifications are broader - also about the West and th...
Among many narratives used by Russia’s apologists, a persistent one is that Ukraine is corrupt; as if this somehow justifies the war. This 🧵lists some facts about this narrative....
How to sabotage Russian war efforts? There are ways to sabotage Russian war capacities by focusing on its three major bottlenecks: demographic, economic & institutional. Let's sta...
How Putin managed to derussify East Ukraine in just 8 years? Discussion on the potential deescalation of the war in Ukraine with all security implications it has illustrates the d...
It is 18 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Today I explore initial lessons of the Russian military transformation program of the past decade against their military...
The irony of “anti-imperialists” defending Putin’s war, a war that is *explicitly* a revanchist imperial war, has not been lost on me. We don’t have to guess what Putin’s motives a...
Intelligence acquired since the beginning of the Russian military operation over Ukraine has shown an immense lack of logistic support, making this war one of the most unique in 20...
3 theses on the Russian-Ukrainian war: 1. Putin's decision to start the war on Ukraine isn't foreign policy. It's domestic one. Putin first consolidated his power through the war...