War Studies
31 Threads
Studying "war fatigue", I wonder what the difference is between the fatigue of people who live through war and those who observe it from a distance. https://t.co/VsrazQbEEd
🧵I’ve read comparisons of our current security predicament to what happened in the late 1930s. There are indeed compelling similarities: Much like before WWII when Germany and Ja...
BREAKING: Our latest estimates reveal that deaths in post-9/11 war zones top 4.5 million. Read more by @MiriamABerger in the @WashingtonPost: https://t.co/nefwgALoP6 https://t.co...
A thread 🧵 on Ernst Jünger's The Worker and it's implications for our understanding of the Total State. 👇 According to Ernst Jünger's The Worker, it is the technologized society o...
After my thread on the Bucha-deniers, @KitKlarenberg, one of those featured, responded with…more Bucha-denial. Kit does atrocity-denial for a living. Problem is, he sucks at it. S...
EUROPEAN WARS 1. Dear Me. Sorry if I accuse Europeans of liking war. 2. I studied European history. 3. It is all about European wars. https://t.co/CgZ4boPN4S
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....
