Quite the contrary, it was part of the post-Soviet Russian military theorizing about bypassing armed struggle. To understand this theorization and its long-term implementation in Ukraine, it is necessary to analyze the main Russian military debate since 1993: what is war?doi:10.1080/01402390.2023.2199445Dimitri MinicRoutle...
Latvia has a long border with Russia and Belarus, a large Russian-speaking minority, and a history of occupation. Also like Ukraine, it has been the target of more than a decade of so-called “hybrid war” tactics—cyber
“The persistent Western debates and delays in Western military aid to Ukraine is a clear example of the Kremlin’s successful reflexive control strategy, which had committed the Western to self-deterrence despite routine Russian escalations of the war,” Stepanenko said. This strategy could be see...
There's a new look of the Russian army in Ukraine: Soldiers on motorcycles who race across no-man's land, counting on speed to evade Ukrainian fire … but not always able to outrun the swarms of drones which hover over the battlefield and can pick off fighters one-by-one. A ...
They also serve strategic goals – to keep Russian artillery further from the city center and prevent the invading army from fully encircling Kyiv, the experts said. Article content Cities including Kharkiv and Mariupol have suffered heavy bombardment as Russian ground advances stalled – part of...
In early January, Deborah Haynes reported from Ukraine about howa growing reserve army was 'getting ready'amid fears of Russian attack. Despite all the signs, many in the West did not believe that it would lead to all-out war. Russia's ambassador t...
One of the world's biggest diamond producers, Russia's state-owned Alrosa accounts for 27% of global diamond extraction, with prices set to rise if embargoes are placed on Russian exports. Russia also exports a large amount of coal and timber, the prices of wh...
portrays a larger-than-life President Abraham Lincoln carved in stone, seated within a large, Greek temple. It's meant to memorialize the grandeur of the man and his towering legacy as the preserver of the Union. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, on the other hand, is an entirely different ...
where thousands of ill-equipped Russian forceshave died on the front linessince the end of last year. Many of those fighters have not been enlisted Russian soldiers, but mercenaries recruited and paid by the Wagner Group, a private army run by President Vladimir Putin's long-time associa...
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