Jacek Bartosiak talks to Ben Hodges about the presence of the US and NATO on the Eastern Flank (Video)
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The Eternal Return and Eastern Europe. The Geopolitical Tragedy that Never Ends. Part 4 of 4
Eastern Europe is a specific region in the European continent because it has been a testing ground of grand geopolitics throughout the last three hundred years. The concepts of partition, spheres of influence, buffer zones, division lines, cordon sanitaire, and limitrophe were not only developed in theory...
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The Eternal Return and Eastern Europe. The Geopolitical Tragedy that Never Ends. Part 3 of 4
The Times of the Troubles has one additional feature: the erection of an enormous and sophisticated system of fortifications and military bases along the entire geopolitical zone of contact, that stretched hundreds of kilometres. The concentration of defence lines and fortifications was maybe the greatest in Europe...
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The Eternal Return and Eastern Europe. The Geopolitical Tragedy that Never Ends. Part 2 of 4
In the history of Eastern Europe, the Lisowczyks hold significance for their extensive raids deep into the Russian territories...
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The Eternal Return and Eastern Europe. The Geopolitical Tragedy that Never Ends. Part 1 of 4
Throughout the centuries, the Eastern European region has grappled with its greatest challenge: the inability to self-organise effectively. Conversely, the great powers have consistently resisted the notion that Eastern Europe can evolve into an independent centre of power...
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9 months temu
A call from the White House
December 2024. Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie. A few days before Christmas. One o’clock in the morning. The outgoing President of the United States is trying to call the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland to let him know that war has broken out in the Western Pacific...
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10 months temu
The Cossack Mosquito Fleet in the Dnieper and Black Sea. Part 2
The Cossack naval asymmetric strategy and tactic was a unique historical phenomenon that provided not only bright stories for contemporary Ukrainians but was one of the geopolitical factors that reshuffled the balance of power in the Black Sea region and allowed the creation of the first Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate...
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1 year temu
The Cossack Mosquito Fleet in the Dnieper and Black Sea. Part 1
The naval and maritime factor in the Russo-Ukrainian War has a multidimensional expression and it will play a more important role due to the geopolitical and existential importance to Ukraine and Russia of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Dnieper River and some other big rivers...
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The Heartland of Eurasia (Central Asia) in the Multipolar World: The Chinese Case. Part 2
It may sound like a paradox but the primary beneficiaries of the multipolar world are the countries of the Global South...
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The Heartland of Eurasia (Central Asia) in the Multipolar World: The Chinese Case. Part 1
The great geopolitical game for the Heartland of Eurasia (Central Asia) has begun, but this time things are more complicated than in the times of the Han or Tang dynasties or the times of the Great Game in the 19th century...
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Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power? Part 3 of 3
The decision of Beijing to publicly propose a peace resolution plan for the war in Ukraine was determined by many factors, however, the key component was that China decided to act as a global-scale arbiter...
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Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power? Part 2 of 3
Together with its One Belt One Road initiative, in 2012, China presented the Community of Common Destiny for Humankind. Initially, the very phrase was used to express China-Taiwan relations...
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Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power? Part 1 of 3
This three-part series examines the Chinese global factor in international conflict resolution and will try to answer the question - Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power?
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Tiers for Rears: A General Classification of Military Logistics in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 2
On March 5, 2022, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the decree “List of foreign states and territories that are committing unfriendly actions towards the Russian Federation”. There were proposed three categories of the states: ‘friendly’, ‘unfriendly’ and ‘neutral states’...
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Tiers for Rears: A General Classification of Military Logistics in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 1
The war in Ukraine is a unique geopolitical event that resembles and combines many previous international and revolutionary wars that changed the course of history...
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Modelling the War in Ukraine for 2023
The year-long war in Ukraine doesn’t demonstrate any sign of ending soon. On the contrary, everything indicates that the war hasn’t yet reached its apogee...
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Turkey and the Organisation of Turkic States: The Grand Design of Pan-Turkism
For a long time, the Turkic World formed a continuous historical and cultural space from China to Europe without the capacity to be a real geopolitical player in Eurasia, but under the leadership of Turkey, the Turkic World is today shaping a new geopolitical reality in Eurasia...
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2 years temu
UKRAINE: An Economy on the brink
Despite receiving enormous military, economic, social and financial assistance from the West, the Ukrainian economy and social situation are going to deteriorate...
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2 years temu
The Red and Blue: The Soviet General Staff’s Wargames (1940). Part 3 of 3
The Soviet general and historian Bobylev disagrees with Zakharov, saying that he was the first to describe the wargames in detail, but he makes many key errors...
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2 years temu
The Battle of Kherson: Schwerpunkt of the war?
Ukraine and Russia are facing a completely new stage in the escalation of hostilities. The war is gradually changing its shape, form and perspective. It has become more aggressive and unpredictable...
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The Red and Blue: The Soviet General Staff’s Wargames (1940). Part 2 of 3
In January 1941, the situation forced the Soviet Command to look at the wargames as something more than a merely theoretical routine but as the projection of the real war...
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The Red and Blue: The Soviet General Staff’s Wargames (1940). Part 1 of 3
All the Germans, Russians and American generals in 1940 had played wargames as young boys with tin soldiers colored Red and Blue, but this time it was old men playing the theoretical games...
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2 years temu
Mobilization As a Geopolitical Act of Russia
After the Debacle in Kharkiv, the Russian Army forced the Russian leadership to search for the proper answer to the new military challenges...
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2 years temu
Russia’s Protracted War in Ukraine – Part 4 of 4
The Russian political and military leadership is facing a dilemma in Ukraine...
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2 years temu
Russia’s Protracted War in Ukraine – Part 3 of 4
When Putin stated in July that Moscow had barely started its campaign in Ukraine, daring the west to try to defeat it on the battlefield, it was considered a sign of Russia's readiness to continue its military campaign in Ukraine...
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2 years temu
Russia’s Protracted War in Ukraine. Part 2 of 4 – The Matrix of Russian Military and Geopolitical Doctrine
In order to understand the current course of the war in Ukraine, we must go to the Marxist theory of war, which serves as the foundation for Russian military doctrine...
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2 years temu
Russian Protracted War in Ukraine: The Revolt of Eurasia – Part 1 of 4
The war in Ukraine is escalating from one stage of the escalation ladder into another, but much higher than the previous, and no end is feasible on the horizon...
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2 years temu
Russian Pre-War Battle Doctrine and the War in Ukraine
Usually, when Russian military strategists or statesmen speak about military theories or doctrine, they concern the global or regional character rather than explaining the theory of the war at the tactical level...
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2 years temu
Ukraine, sequencing and denial
The war in Ukraine unleashed by Russia represents the most serious challenge that has been faced by the United States since the end of the Cold War...
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2 years temu
The Global Context of the Space Factor in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 4 of 4
Russia has been forced to cooperate closely with UK and US space companies, more than ever, in achieving their common goal, which is to continue their global dominance in the Earth’s orbit...
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2 years temu
The Russo-Ukrainian War: An outline of the Lessons and Observations drawn by Russian Analysts so far. Part 2 of 2
Russia is currently using the old strategy of “Artillery is the God of War”. It is often possible to see how Russian experts are discussing the importance of artillery...
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2 years temu
The Global Context of the Space Factor in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 3 of 4
Space is the mother of war in the 21st century. Without space technologies, war would immediately be brought back to the first half of the 20th century. Armies would be myopic compared with contemporary armies. Modern logistics, communications and cybersecurity fully depend on the space domain...
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2 years temu
Intermarium Strategic Survey I
Now, with the war in Ukraine raging, and an open challenge to the international order being laid down by Russia in a way not witnessed in Europe since the end of the second world war we believe it is critically important...
2 years temu
The Global Context of the Space Factor in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 2 of 4
The war in Ukraine is study time for military strategists throughout the world, who have been closely observing, learning and examining every move made on both sides of the battlefield...
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2 years temu
The Russo-Ukrainian War: An outline of the Lessons and Observations drawn by Russian Analysts so far. Part 1 of 2
The situation in the Donbas is not desperate for the Ukrainian Armed Forces but it is very difficult...
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2 years temu
The Global Context of the Space Factor in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 1 of 4
Satellites have turned Ukrainian territory into the zone of the most transparent war in military history. Both sides see each other’s moves and can predict and calculate options and scenarios...
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2 years temu
Making realism real – using competing theories in analysis and strategy
As realists, we tend to perceive international politics in terms of rivalry over resources, with a specific focus on hard power – geography, military, economy...
2 years temu
“The Anxious Dream”- à rebours? A political plan for Poland’s victory and peace in the East. Part 1
My attention was drawn towards the following poem during Easter whilst reading Professor Andrzej Nowak’s latest book, the chapter describing Poland’s dependence on the Soviet empire after World War II...
2 years temu
The War for Resources: An examination of Russian geoeconomic goals in Ukraine
The geopolitics of the Russo-Ukrainian War has historical, security and ideological implications, but we shouldn’t avoid the environmental factor of this war...
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2 years temu
What Does Russia have left to Attack Poland during the Invasion of Ukraine?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has predictably fixed a substantial proportion of the Russian Armed Forces...
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2 years temu
“Denuclearisation” as a Russian strategic goal in the Russo-Ukrainian War
In addition to Putin’s two declared goals in Ukraine, “denazification” and “demilitarisation,” we should think about adding a third, which is to deprive the country of access to any source of traditional energy like coal, hydro, thermal, or nuclear power stations, most of which are stationed in Eastern and Central Ukraine...
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2 years temu
Mackinder’s Nightmare, and Three Weeks that Shook the World
On the night of February 23rd to 24th, 2022, everything seemed to be going as Putin had planned. At the same time, the course of events was the nightmare of Halford Mackinder’s worst dreams...
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2 years temu
Ukraine Fighting Against a Terrorist State – Russia. Could the War in Ukraine be the beginning of the Demise of an Empire?
Ukraine is resisting Russian aggression. Ukraine and the Ukrainian people have lost their territories, infrastructure, military material but it still holds its soul, pride, and zealously resists...
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2 years temu
Future Warfare: The Dehumanisation of C2 – Part 4 of 4
Autonomous systems are a dangerous element of future warfare. Especially taking into account the prospect of so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs), controlled by machine learning and AI...
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The Geopolitical Drama of Eastern Europe. Could Eastern Europe once again be partitioned? Part 2 of 2
The main take-away points from the events in Belarus from the summer of 2020 (the unrest of the pro-Western factions of Belarusian civil society) until the current refugee crisis on the Belarusian border with the EU are the following...
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The Geopolitical Drama of Eastern Europe. Could Eastern Europe once again be partitioned? Part 1 of 2
The current crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border suggests that Eastern Europe won’t see peace and stability in this decade. The Ukrainian crisis together with the Belarussian crisis gives enough evidence that processes are occurring within the region that can affect the entire European continent, much more than was the case in 2014...
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2 years temu
Future Warfare: The Dehumanisation of C2 – Part 3 of 4. DARPA’s Mosaic Warfare and the role of AI and Robotics
What’s brewing In the United States is not exclusively only one concept of future warfare based around JADC2, but something more sophisticated and sometimes even more controversial...
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Future Warfare: The Dehumanisation of C2 – Part 2 of 4
The speed and manoeuvrability of combat with the use of robotic systems is increasing so quickly that for humans it will soon be difficult to compete with autonomous robotic systems...
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3 years temu
How Ukraine Lost its Nuclear Power Status – Part 2 of 2. The Budapest Memorandum and Ukraine
On 5th December 1994, the three depository states of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) that entered into force on 5th March 1970 - Russia, UK, and the US - pledged to provide security assurances to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine...
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3 years temu
Future Warfare: The Dehumanisation of C2 – Part 1 of 4
It is possible to predict that the system of Command and Control in the armies of the future will be based upon intertwined cooperation or assistance of AI/ML. The consequences of this cooperation have geopolitical and directly-military aftermaths...
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3 years temu
Russian Mobilization in the Twenty-First Century
Since the publication of my guide calculating how many battalion tactical groups (BTGs) the Russian Armed Forces could generate against Poland, a couple critiques have been levelled at whether this is the best way to understand how Russia would fight Poland and/or NATO at large...
3 years temu
Calculating Russian Force Projection Capability
The Russian Armed Forces implemented many reforms after the 2008 Georgian War, consolidating military districts, streamlining command-and-control structure, and switching from a division- to a brigade-centric order of battle...
3 years temu
How Ukraine Lost its Nuclear Power Status – Part 1 of 2
The Russian aggression against Ukraine since 2014 has reanimated in Ukraine the political and intellectual discussion over Ukraine’s restoration of nuclear power status. This initiative was immediately integrated into the informational war against Russia by the Ukrainian political establishment...
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3 years temu
The Battle of Cudnów (1660): The Russo-Ukrainian Historiographic Assessment
For the Russians, a military tragedy, a catastrophe; for the Poles, a strategic victory; for the Ukrainians, a human and civil tragedy...
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3 years temu
Jarosław Kaczyński on war
It is very puzzling, the calmness with which public opinion received the statements of the most important politician in the country on the real possibility of a war with Russia (and Belarus)...
3 years temu
Forced March on Poti and Senaki: Russian Spetsnaz Operation in Georgia in 2008. Part 2
Shamanov in his interview does not mention the role of the 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade during the war on the Abkhazian front. However, many sources indicate that the 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade undertook the most dangerous operations during the war in the Abkhazian TVD...
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3 years temu
Forced March on Poti and Senaki: Russian Spetsnaz Operation in Georgia in 2008. Part 1
The Russo-Georgian War in 2008 was not a challenge for the Georgian Armed Forces exclusively, but also for Russia. In fact, the consequences of the war triggered the process of the modernisation of the Russian Armed Forces...
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3 years temu
New Generation Warfare and Civilian Leadership in the Process of Military Reforms. Part 3: The Serdyukov Reforms
The Russian Armed Forces has witnessed a lot in its history, but they have never had a situation when the chief person in the Armed Forces was an accountant...
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3 years temu
The Conceptual Trap of War as a Ballet
Enshrined in doctrine, operational phasing dominates U.S. and NATO thinking on operational art...
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3 years temu
New Generation Warfare and Civilian Leadership in the Process of Military Reforms. Part 2: McNamara’s Managerial Revolution
Considered the biggest reformer of the Pentagon, Robert McNamara was able to consolidate civilian political control over the military leadership and the defence budget...
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3 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)019
Following Mike Pence’s 2018 Hudson Institute speech, the wider narrative around China began to change — just as it started to become clear how much of China’s wealth had been ploughed back into infrastructure and the military...
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3 years temu
New Generation Warfare and Civilian Leadership in the Process of Military Reforms. Part 1: The Cardwell Reforms
The New Generation Warfare (NGW) revolution is not only exclusively about warfare but is about the comprehensive revolution inside the entire military realm and in the supplementary sectors...
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3 years temu
Afghanistan: Consequences for World History
Let us abstract away from what is happening now in the world and concentrate on the historical importance of the events in Afghanistan. What follows here is my humble attempt to forecast the near future which is already just over the horizon...
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3 years temu
Two Battlegrounds of the Great Game in Eurasia: the South China Sea and the Black Sea. Part 1 of 3
The Great Game of the XXI century is not only about Afghanistan anymore. This time, it is about a struggle by the Land Powers to bite into the World Ocean and to undermine the West’s monopoly over it and the Freedom of Navigation concept...
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3 years temu
The New Regional Geopolitical Equilibrium in the Southern Caucasus
The Southern Caucasus is one of the most dangerous hotspots on the Eurasian continent. For centuries, the region has attracted regional and global players. Its small nations exist constantly under the pressure of three crucial Eurasian powers: Russia, Turkey and Iran...
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3 years temu
Poland’s Anchoring Strategy and the Case for a Rethink
In the 21st century, the balance of power in Eurasia is structurally different than it was in the last two hundred years, when the mental maps of our elites were taking shape...
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3 years temu
Geopolitical Drivers of China and Russia towards Taiwan and Crimea. Part 2
In March 1965, Mao reportedly told the member of a Palestinian delegation: “Imperialism is afraid of China and the Arabs. Israel and Formosa are bases of imperialism in Asia. You are the front gate of the great continent, and we are the rear. They created Israel for you, and Formosa for us"...
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3 years temu
Geopolitical Drivers of China and Russia towards Taiwan and Crimea. Part 1
Taiwan and Crimea have many interesting similarities both in terms of their geopolitical and geostrategic importance and in terms of historic and cultural narratives for China and Russia. It seems that the leaders of both countries are committed to the idea of “collecting lost lands”...
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3 years temu
Drone Guerilla Warfare in the Middle East: Part 5 of 5
In the near future nobody is going to establish international rules for the different types of UAVs. The proliferation of drone technologies and their decreasing prices on the global market are going to continue...
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3 years temu
War Vs Peace Unit Update Report #10. May 2021
War Vs Peace Unit Update Report #10
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3 years temu
Drone Guerilla Warfare in the Middle East: Part 4 of 5
Since the development of drone warfare, defence against the attacks and surveillance of different types of UAVs have been included as a component of A2/AD strategies...
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3 years temu
War Vs Peace Missile Report #64. May 2021
War Vs Peace Missile Report #64. May 2021
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3 years temu
The Drone Eats With Me by Atef Abu Saif (Book Review)
It seems Israel will never leave Gaza. It is always here, even if its soldiers are not visible, patrolling the streets as they did not so long ago. The occupation is now truly twenty-first century—the best drone technology in the world...
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3 years temu
Drone Guerilla Warfare in the Middle East: Part 3 of 5
Israel has responded to the activities of the militants in Lebanon and Palestine by developing a genuinely sophisticated system of UCAVs which encompass strategic, medium-size and tactical drones...
3 years temu
Drone Guerilla Warfare in the Middle East: Part 2 of 5
It has become popular to refer to Turkey as the main drone “superpower” in the region, but it would be a grave mistake to think that in the Middle East only Israel and Turkey have developed sophisticated UAV industries...
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3 years temu
Drone Guerilla Warfare in the Middle East: Part 1 of 5
Rapidly developing both in theory and in practice, drone warfare will in the near future likely define and shape the nature of war...
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3 years temu
“Gente Polonus natione Europae?” – the voice of one of the subscribers. Part 2
Europe is part of "Western civilisation", to which, apart from Europe itself, it is customary to include all its (regrettably, usually evolved as a result of rape) "children": primarily North America, with the United States as a global power, and Latin America, with Brazil growing in importance in the global puzzle, as well as the area of Australia and Oceania...
3 years temu
Poland on the Black Sea
“Poland from sea to sea” (Polska od morza do morza). This slogan is most often associated with the 16th century and the period of the greatest power of the Polish Republic...
3 years temu
Turkish Media and the Turkish Expert Community’s reaction to the Polish-Turkish Drone Deal
Poland has joined the list of countries that are going to operate the Turkish Bayraktar UAVs. In the near future, Turkish drones are going to fly in the skies of Poland and the Baltic countries along with the other countries...
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3 years temu
The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 5 of 5
The experiences of previous Russian-Ukrainian confrontations shows that the easiest task for Moscow was to take control over Kharkov and Sloboda Ukraine...
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3 years temu
War Vs Peace Unit Update Report #9. April 2021
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3 years temu
“Gente Polonus natione Europae?” – the voice of one of the subscribers. Part 1
This essay is not strictly geopolitical in nature, but the cultural issues raised in it, in the field of comparative studies of civilisation, are naturally related to geopolitics...
3 years temu
Jack London’s “The Iron Heel” (Book review)
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London. Published in 1908, it sets out to warn that a dangerous new society is rising on the horizon...
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3 years temu
The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 4 of 5
Theatre of War “C” – the Northern Tavrida ‘Peninsula’ - from a geopolitical perspective, this theatre is given by the geopolitical divine to be occupied if the Crimean Peninsula is already under control...
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3 years temu
War Vs Peace Missile Report #63. April 2021
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3 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)018
10 years after the Beijing Olympics had showcased the awakening of Napoleon’s “sleeping giant”, 2018 was the year that America signalled - finally (?) - that it would now be taking a much tougher approach...
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3 years temu
The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 3 of 5
Scenario Five - this scenario is closer to the second scenario or even to the first one, but in this scenario, Russia imposes its entire technological superiority and destroys the main concentrations of Ukrainian military equipment, material and navy...
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3 years temu
A Polish perspective on the strategic choices facing America. Part 2
W wymiarze wojskowym wycofanie się Amerykanów na zachodnią półkulę w ramach offshore balancing oznaczałoby redukcję w amerykańskim arsenale nuklearnym z jednoczesnym rozwojem tarczy antyrakietowej...
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3 years temu
The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 2 of 5
Scenario Two - here the strategic goals are much greater and the effects in case of its realisation would not be simply political or diplomatic...
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3 years temu
A Polish perspective on the strategic choices facing America. Part 1
Any effective strategy (for a country in Poland’s position) requires an understanding of one’s own limitations, both related to the foundations of one’s own power and to the existing obligations of a superpower...
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3 years temu
The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 1 of 5
2021 will be the anniversary of Ukrainian independence and 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union.,,
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3 years temu
Adapt or Die. Obsolescence, Offset Strategies and the Pacific
“We’re a maritime nation – we’ve grown by the sea and live by it; if we lose command of it we starve” – this is what the English used to say. The Americans still say it today. So it is no coincidence that the US Navy is the pride of the American armed forces - nor is it a coincidence that aircraft carriers are the pride of the US Navy, a symbol of its power and the United States.
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3 years temu
“Free Odessa – Odessa Republic – Southwest Territory (1917-1919)” by Victor Savchenko (Book review)
Geopolitics has different expressions, usually global or regional, but sometimes it can be interesting to understand the phenomenon of geopolitics through the local angle. Victor Savchenko’s book which I present today is truly one of those books that give us a picture of how geopolitics works at the local level...
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The Last 21 Years: Year (2)017
In the last seven years of the Obama Presidency (2010-2016), the Dow Jones had risen from 11,500 to 19,500, an average of just over 1,000 points every year...
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The Arc of Instability from Eastern Europe to the Southern Caucasus. What’s next? Part 2
TIn autumn, the situation in the region deteriorated. On September 27th, the month and a half long Nagorno-Karabakh War began. The geopolitical consequences of the war were detrimental for Armenia, and have not been settled so far. The country fell totally under the control of Moscow, hence increasing Russian military presence in the Southern Caucasus.
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3 years temu
War Vs Peace Missile Report #62
War Vs Peace Missile Report #62
March 2021
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3 years temu
The Arc of Instability from Eastern Europe to the Southern Caucasus. What’s next? Part 1
The second half of 2020 will be considered by many historians and experts as an important historical period that determined the development of the political and geopolitical situation in two crucial regions of Europe, Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus...
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3 years temu
Special Operations Forces Command and Crimean Operation
In 2013 Russia’s Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov jointly announced the creation of a Special Operations Forces...
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3 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)016
Some years are more memorable than others: the terror attacks of 2001, the Iraq invasion of 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the birth of the smartphone era in 2007, the financial crisis of 2008, the ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011, the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas in 2014. And although we might not have thought so at first, 2016 would turn out to be another “one of those years”!
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3 years temu
War Vs Peace Missile Report #61
War Vs Peace Missile Report #61
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The Last 21 Years: Year (2)015
2015 was the year of the European Migrant Crisis, when makeshift refugee camps in Greek Islands off the coast of Turkey began filling up with families (and young men) fleeing the ongoing Syrian Civil War...
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3 years temu
A perfect storm over Taiwan
In February, at a panel organized by the National University of Singapore, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd expressed his conviction that the next decade of Sino-American relations will be marked by "living on the edge." Rudd's idée fixe is that China and the United States develop "barriers", allowing both powers to continue their inevitable rivalry while reducing the risk of a kinetic conflict between them...
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3 years temu
Why?
I have had the intention of writing these few sentences for some time, watching the debate around the rapidly changing international scene and the accompanying public debate in Poland and abroad. But let me start with a series of questions?
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The Last 21 Years: Year (2)014
The Euromaidan protests in Kyiv started on 21st November 2013 after President Viktor Yanukovich announced Ukraine’s suspension of an association agreement with the EU, meaning the East European country would instead seek closer ties with Moscow. This was a post-colour revolution...
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3 years temu
Australia’s role in America’s war with China. Part 1
In the US plans for a war with China, Australia plays the role of a base for peripheral operations in the Indian Ocean and in the Indonesian straits...
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3 years temu
The Last 21 Years: 2013
Barack Obama’s (second) inauguration speech on 21st January 2013 contained this rather hopeful line: “A decade of war is now ending”...
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3 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak and Nicholas Myers discuss Mackinder, Kennan and Spykman theories in the 21st century (Video)
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3 years temu
Eugen Richter „Pictures of the Socialistic Future” (Book review)
The history of the future (futurology), the philosophy of history, geopolitics and astropolitics are the most interesting fields of human knowledge...
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3 years temu
The Last 21 Years: (2)012
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The Last 21 Years: (2)011
We have to be careful about the terms we use to describe events. As Tim Marshall argued in the Spectator in October 2012, “calling these events the ‘Arab Spring’ automatically frames them as positive”...
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3 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak, Marek Budzisz, Albert Świdziński talk to Mike Winnerstig on the Sweden’s grand strategy (Video)
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3 years temu
Yevgeny Zamyatin “We” (Book review)
The first anti-utopia was written in 1920 in the Soviet Russia by Evgeni Zamyatin. In Russia, the novel was published only in 1988, and the reaction in Soviet Russia in the 20s was outrage, forcing Zamyatin to leave the country...
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3 years temu
The Role of Egypt in the Russian Strategic Vision
Egypt in the Russian agenda plays the most important role for the Middle East and Africa, and the cooperation seems to be increasing in 2021...
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3 years temu
The Last 21 Years: (2)010
On 4th January 2010, the Burj Khalifa opened in Dubai. At 828 metres, it was the world’s tallest building...
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3 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak, Nicholas Myers and Zbigniew Pisarski talk about Poland in Great Power Competition (Video)
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4 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak, Ridvan Bari Urcosta and Gustav Gressel talk about the Germany’s foreign policy (Video)
Jacek Bartosiak, Ridvan Bari Urcosta and Gustaw Gressler talk about the
Germany's foreign policy.
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)009
The phrase “up in the air” perfectly captures the world at the beginning of 2009 (and, arguably, ever since)...
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4 years temu
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky “Adventures of the Atom”. Book review
Konstantin Eduardovich was not only a genius astrophysicist and rocket scientist, but also created a cosmic philosophy which he presented in his many different articles, essays and novels...
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)008
“The numbers tell us this was a debate between change and experience, and change won”...
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4 years temu
Ukraine’s Search for security: from NATO and PESCO to bipartisan relations with independent players (the US, the UK, Turkey). Part 2
London introduced a comprehensive post-Brexit strategy towards Ukraine and now it has several components...
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4 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak, Scott LaFoy and Nicholas Myers debate the missile warfare (Video)
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4 years temu
British-Ukrainian military cooperation as a part of London’s Post-Brexit Strategy. Part 2
However, what were truly revolutionary and historic were the documents signed recently between London and Kiev. The Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement signed on 8th October 2020 in London during the official visit of the Ukrainian President to the UK...
4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)007
“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” Normally we might be inclined to ignore Steve Jobs’ sales patter but here, on 9th January 2007 unveiling the first-generation Apple iPhone, he was - as they say - on point...
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4 years temu
British-Ukrainian military cooperation as a part of London’s Post-Brexit Strategy. Part 1
The United Kingdom is approaching the final stage of Brexit. London is thinking about the post-Brexit period of its history and is searching for a new post-Brexit grand strategy...
4 years temu
Report from the “Twentieth War” S&F. Part 1
This is actually not a report yet, but rather an account of what we have already done and indeed where we are going...
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4 years temu
Ukraine’s Search for security: from NATO and PESCO to bipartisan relations with independent players (the US, the UK, Turkey). Part 1
The main geopolitical imperative of Ukraine is to find a way to maintain its social and political resilience together with the territorial integrity of the country...
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)006
In the 31st January 1907 edition of Le Matin, under the headline Paris-Pékin Automobile: Un défi prodigieux, there was a really remarkable story which looked set to define what we now think of as the first era of globalisation...
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4 years temu
Ridvan Bari Urcosta and Marek Budzisz talk to Admiral (ret.) Ihor Kabanenko on Ukrainian Naval Strategy and the balance of power in the Black Sea Region
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4 years temu
Michail Leontiev. “The Great Game (Great Britain against Russia and the USSR)”. Book review
This book was written in 2008 by one of the staunch supporters of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Mikhail Leontiev was born in Moscow in 1958 and for many years was involved in Russian politics, more specifically in Russian media space...
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)005
Opened in December 2005, the Donghai Bridge — connecting mainland Shanghai with a new deepwater container port on the islands of Yangshan in Hangzhou Bay 32.5km away — was not the world’s longest cross-water bridge...
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)004
Taipei 101 — named after its 101 floors — opened on 31st December 2004, having earlier in the year been recognised as the world’s tallest skyscraper at 509.2 m (spire), 449.2 m (roof height). Under President Chen Shui-bian of the nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who was re-elected in March 2004 after a four-year term, the Republic of China (Taiwan) had begun to distance itself from the PRC...
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4 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak talks to Peter Zeihan on the chaotic times that are coming, on decoupling and deglobalization
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4 years temu
Jacek Bartosiak, Ridvan Bari Urcosta and Marek Budzisz talk to Andrey Kortunov on the shift in the global order (Podcast)
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)003
In Baghdad, the capital city, you will see street merchants selling exactly the same kind of pottery that their ancestors sold at the time of the Arabian Nights..
4 years temu
Artemis: the USA’s return to the Moon
The United States is planning to return to the Moon, but this time it looks more serious and aggressive than ever...
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)002
2001 had been amongst the most difficult years in America’s history and the world now waited to see how it would respond...
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4 years temu
Turkish Drones Doctrine: Advance Technology that gives Advance Geopolitics
In the recent decade, the advanced UAVs technologies proliferated far beyond the traditional powers - Israel, the U.S. and West, at large - that dominated this technological field...
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4 years temu
5 Truths About Special Forces
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4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)001
On 21st June 2001, a train set off from Yandi in the arid upland interior of Western Australia to the Port of Port Hedland 275 km away on the Indian Ocean...
4 years temu
Beyond the Post-Cold War Era
Between 1989 and 1991, the strategic map of Eurasia altered dramatically as broad swathes of territory reopened to international markets after a long period of enclosure behind communist walls...
4 years temu
The Last 21 Years: Year (2)000
The 21st century didn’t begin officially until 1st Jan 2001 but in the popular imagination, 2000 represented a new beginning: a new century, a new millennium. The collapse of the Soviet Union was now an increasingly distant point in the rear-view mirror...
4 years temu
“Our Middle East. Notes of the Soviet Ambassador to Egypt and Iran” by Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov
The book which I would like to present has historical importance for those who are interested in the revolutionary events in Iran between the three historical periods of this ancient country...
4 years temu
The Theaters of Greco-Turkish War: a geostrategic projection. Part V
During the Cold War, Washington needed these two countries in order to contain the Soviets’ drive in the south, but since the end of the Cold War and the elimination of the “Russian threat”, all that’s left is the direct territorial, religious and military contradictions between Greece and Turkey...
4 years temu
Strategic Assessment of Drones Warfare in the Nagorno-Karabakh
It is not a sci-fi movie anymore: the war of the drone is reality and it is happening now...
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4 years temu
The Theaters of Greco-Turkish War: a geostrategic projection. Part IV
The Military Balance 2020 provides the following information regarding the military forces of Turkey and Greece. In 2019, Turkey possessed the biggest army in Europe with 355,200 active military personnel and 378,700 reserves...
4 years temu
The Theaters of Greco-Turkish War: a geostrategic projection. Part III
The Cilicia war theater existed during the Franco-Turkish War (1918-1921). In Turkish military historiography, it is known as the “southern front.”
4 years temu
The Theaters of Greco-Turkish War: a geostrategic projection. Part II
The Megisti (Kastellorizo) theater of operation is the most interesting and the most attractive island to Turkey...
4 years temu
The Theaters of Greco-Turkish War: a geostrategic projection. Part I
Turkey is changing its geopolitical posture in the region and her strategy is omnidirectional. For the last five years, Turkey has been very busy with the military conflicts in Syria and Iraq, but the situation is slowly evolving into one that is stable and manageable for Turkey...
4 years temu
Strategy&Future – „Project 2030″
Strategy&Future is launching a foresight analysis titled "Project 2030" concerning prospective security crises that would bear on Poland's security...
4 years temu
Romania: Poland’s natural, underestimated ally
„ [..] And the Pole must stay on this land, so that Polish tears and Polish blood will not be wasted, because this land is poured with Polish blood to defend it…”
4 years temu
Quo vadis SOF?
The September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center changed the course of history. It began a global war on terrorism, which shook new life into Special Forces and redefined their character...
Artykuł tylko dla subskrybentów. Aby przeczytać, zakup plan Subskrypcja miesięczna or Subskrypcja roczna odnawialna
4 years temu
Makhmut Gareev “My last war (Afghanistan without Soviet troops)”
This book sheds light on the Soviet Union’s strategic convulsions in Afghanistan when the country almost collapsed but still by inertia was trying to behave as a Superpower with geopolitical commitments.
4 years temu
Geostrategic Assessment of The Greco-Turkish Wars: Projection of the Future War. Part I
The dramatic relations between Greece and Turkey are rooted in history, religion, ideology and ultimately geopolitics. The Russian-Turkish Wars in the XVIII and XIX centuries tremendously weakened the Ottoman Empire...
4 years temu
BELARUS THE BELLIGERENT
On August 9, Belarus held it’s 6th presidential election. Shockingly – shockingly! – according to official estimates and exit polls, this was yet another resounding victory by the country's long-standing strongman leader, Alexander Lukashenka.
4 years temu
Russell Grenfell’s Sea Power (1940)
In the far southwestern corner of England, overlooking the blue Atlantic and the green rolling hills of Penwith, there is a village of tiny grey stone cottages...
4 years temu
Turkey’s New Global Posture: Grand Strategy and Geopolitical Imperatives. Part III
We’ve seen changes in U.S. foreign policy - the geopolitical pivot to the Pacific - and the U.S. needs someone who is able to keep an eye on the Greater Middle East through an American lens...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 12-18.08.2020
“If you destroy the country’s first President, this will be the beginning of the end - you will always be on your knees.” Alexander Lukashenko still seeks to frame himself as a guarantor of national independence and sovereignty...
4 years temu
Turkey and Greece: Escalation in the Aegean
The Baltic-Eastern Mediterranean zone which divides the European peninsula from the rest of Eurasia is becoming dangerously unstable. Last week there were reports that the row between Ankara and Athens had evolved into a more aggressive stage...
4 years temu
Understanding Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “The Social Contract” and other essays in XXI century
Rousseau’s philosophy is mainly interpreted in two ways: firstly (and most commonly) through the concept of Romanticism, merging his ideas with his extraordinary personality...
4 years temu
Turkey’s New Global Posture: Grand Strategy and Geopolitical Imperatives. Part II
Turkish plans for the creation of energy independence are based upon three main pillars with the use of critical sources of power...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 05-11.08.2020
On August 10, the election commission updated the preliminary data on the results of voting in the presidential elections in Belarus...
4 years temu
Ahead of the New Frontier. Part III. The Mare Liberum (Freedom of the Seas) from Sea to Space
The main feature of the Anglo-Saxon world is global dominance and its customary law and institutions that they dominate over the World Ocean...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 29.07-04.08.2020
The political situation in Belarus is increasingly volatile, and the election process is developing in an increasingly unpredictable fashion...
4 years temu
Turkey’s New Global Posture: Grand Strategy and Geopolitical Imperatives. Part I
None of the geopolitical actors in Eurasia and beyond were ready for Turkey to come up with such ambitions and with such an omnidirectional grand strategy encompassing the whole of West Eurasia...
4 years temu
Britain’s China strategy dilemma
In the wild and wary aftermath of the Brexit revolution, many simply assumed that the UK would lose influence in the rest of the world...
4 years temu
Ahead of the New Frontier: from Naval Warfare Theory to Space Strategy. Part II: The Geopolitical Principles and Imperatives for a future war in Outer Space
The Persian Gulf War marked a turning point in human history in the XX century because, in some respect, it ended the Cold War. Moreover, it introduced space power as an element of contemporary warfare...
4 years temu
Ahead of the New Frontier: from Naval Warfare Theory to Space Strategy. Part I
The canon of the strategic theory is full of interesting and unique concepts that were introduced many years earlier than they were implemented in the operational models of modern warfare. However, since it first emerged as an independent field of scientific discussion, its most difficult challenge might be to develop strategic theoretical patterns and concepts for the future wars in Outer Space.
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 14-21.07.2020
The main features of this week are that people started to respond to violence by violence; an oppositional coalition was created; and that Lukashenka allegedly was hospitalized, but it wasn’t true...
4 years temu
On the necessity to include climate considerations in long-term security and strategy planning
Regardless of whether the ongoing changes in the world’s climate are man-induced, the reality of their occurrence is a fact...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 23-30.06.2020
The situation in Belarus is not as desperate as it appeared last week because both sides are now at the stage of preparations for the final struggle...
4 years temu
Hannah Arendt “On Revolution”. Book review
Hannah Arendt is quite a popular theoretician in universities of the West, well known for her development of the theory of Totalitarianism. Her intellectual interests were based upon the main problems of the XX century...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 17-23.06.2020
The political situation in Belarus is changing dramatically and dynamic events are underway, therefore it is worth undertaking a more detailed analysis of the situation in the country...
4 years temu
Fort Trump featuring the rest of the World
Back in 2018, the idea of Fort Trump was floated by the Polish President Andrzej Duda, with the implicit hope of making the presence of US assets permanent...
4 years temu
The Revolution in the Drone Warfare: the lessons from the Idlib De-Escalation Zone. Part II
In the case of Libya, Turkey is achieving its geopolitical goals astonishingly successfully, in the same way as in Syria. The presence of drones does not resemble the presence of military forces...
Artykuł tylko dla subskrybentów. Aby przeczytać, zakup plan Subskrypcja miesięczna or Subskrypcja roczna odnawialna
4 years temu
The Revolution in the Drone Warfare: the lessons from the Idlib De-Escalation Zone. Part I
Turkey and Russia are the two countries that are now learning how to operationally use a new type of the XXI century warfare, Drone (UAV) Warfare...
4 years temu
Democracy versus Meritocracy
When Alfred T. Mahan was prophesying the rise of China back in 1897, he talked about modern European civilisation having grown up “under the shadow of the Cross”...
4 years temu
Multi Domain Battle
The goal of Americans in the coming years will be to maintain the ability to project power in all areas in which China and Russia - in the face of the current world system - are trying to push back against the interests of the US...
Artykuł tylko dla subskrybentów. Aby przeczytać, zakup plan Subskrypcja miesięczna or Subskrypcja roczna odnawialna
4 years temu
China-American Informational “Biological” Warfare: From “Yellow Peril” to “Chinese Virus”. Part 2
The globe is facing an unprecedented challenge which has its own name “COVID-19” and which definitely emanates a direct threat to humanity as a biological factor...
4 years temu
China-American Informational “Biological” Warfare: From “Yellow Peril” to “Chinese Virus”. Part 1
The globe is facing an unprecedented challenge which has its own name “COVID-19” and which definitely emanates a direct threat to humanity as a biological factor...
4 years temu
As oil prices fall, US-Saudi relations continue to sour
The US is planning to “fundamentally, not only reevaluate, but take actions that will start to undermine the long term relationship” with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)...
4 years temu
Brothers Karamazov as a geopolitical novel
The River Polist has its source at Lake Polisto in the western part of the Valdai Hills (about 400 km east of Riga). It becomes navigable at Staraya Russa...
4 years temu
Ukraine’s postmodern Presidency and the strategic importance of “nation branding”
Perhaps it’s to do with owning and operating the biggest airplane in the world; perhaps it’s to do with the self-deprecating actor-turned-President...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 22-29.04.2020
Eastern Europe is gradually and very carefully returning to normal life. COVID-19 is still the most important issue in all countries of the region. Many are planning to coordinate the process of reopening borders. However, many other interesting events have occurred...
4 years temu
Chaos and Control on the Eurasian Steppe
To really comprehend the vastness of the Eurasian steppe and the ways of the societies that have long inhabited it, we need to think in terms of the cultural importance of horsemanship...
4 years temu
From Lisbon to Vladivostok via Tiraspol
I believe that what [the Russians] want to do is maintain situations of strategic geographic instability on their flanks, to their benefit …
4 years temu
Arthur Herman. “1917. Lenin, Wilson and the Birth of the New World Disorder”. Book review
Arthur L. Herman (1956) is an American historian and senior fellow at the Hundson Institute. This book is his latest piece published in 2017.
4 years temu
Florence and the Machine Age
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
- Psalm 23, Line 4
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 09-15.04.2020
The peoples and nations of Central and Eastern Europe are learning to live in the new conditions with Covid-19 pandemia spreading. Getting used to a new way of life is happening now. The way everything is going to end up is still uncertain.
4 years temu
Chess and Geopolitics
Typically I find that those who like to view the world through a prism of the unevenness of geography have very little time for chess, with its flat board and what game theorists and economists might call its “perfect information”...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 25.03-01.04.2020
Everywhere is the same now - people are isolated without any idea what lies in store for them next. The future will depend on how deep the medical crisis (evolving gradually into a social and an economic crisis) turns out to be...
4 years temu
A stay-at-home parent’s attempt to understand the world in 2020
The “invisible enemy” is forcing us to engage differently with the world: as producers, as consumers, as believers and non-believers, as friends, as family...
4 years temu
The painful reality of strategic flows, and a history lesson
The current epidemiological situation shows the tangible reality of the impact the flow of people and goods makes on our lives...
4 years temu
An Eschatology of the Coronavirus: The New “Brave” World Ahead of Us All
There is now a need to find, if possible, some model which can explain to the billions of people around the world where we are, where we’re headed and what kind social and political order might emerge from the ashes of the current crisis...
4 years temu
Half a year which may prove crucial for Ukraine’s integration with NATO
The Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a recent press conference - one of the first after the forming of the new government - said that Ukraine is entering a global economic crisis.
4 years temu
The Nuclear Taboo
For most of the 45 years of the Cold War, as a rule, there was a bipolar system and bipolar nuclear rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union...
4 years temu
Russians on the revision of the Piłsudski-Giedroyc doctrine, or the renewed Polish imperialism
Experts of Russian Regnum Agency has been recently debating the issue of Polish-Russian competition for influence in Central & Eastern Europe, in particular in the "buffer zone" countries separating Poland and Russia, namely Belarus and Ukraine.
4 years temu
The nature of the Eastern Question for Russia in the XXI century
Relations between Turkey and Russia have typically been the most dramatic between any two nations in European history. They have an omnidimensional nature and at the same time they are almost never peaceful.
4 years temu
Davor Marijan “STORM” (2010)
In terms of military strategy and theory of warfare on the European continent, the post-Cold War period has had one specific feature. Namely, it has typically been a fight between unequal forces...
4 years temu
Crimea is facing water shortages: the geopolitical angle
In Crimea, people together with Orthodox priests are praying for rains and snow because throughout the last six months there was no rain during autumn, winter has been dry, and the reservoirs are almost empty. Journalists are forecasting apocalyptic scenarios for Crimea, including drought. In Simferopol, the authorities are gradually introducing a regime of limited water supply.
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 24-29.02.2020
There is a great deal of popular anxiety throughout the countries of the Intermarium concerning the threat of the Coronavirus, which seems to be gradually encircling and surrounding the region...
4 years temu
The Concert of Powers at the Opera House in Lviv
The concept of a "New Concert of Great Powers" is increasingly cited as an analogy to the nineteenth-century balance of powers, which was established to “ensure security and peace” in Europe after the conflagration of the Napoleonic wars. Now, none of the nations of Europe is strong enough to be able to play first violin in the potential new concert of powers - should such emerge...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 17-23.02.2020
The head of the Duma Committee on Defense, Vladimir Shamanov, said that Russia would conduct operational measures in response to the next large-scale NATO exercises near the borders of the Russian Federation...
4 years temu
The Polish Strategic View of Belarus
The dissolution of the Soviet Union left Russia with a strategic problem. For centuries, Russian national security had depended on a buffer that would serve to increase the difficulty of invading Russia. After the collapse, this buffer dissolved into its historicalnations – the Baltics, Belarus and Ukraine.
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 10-16.02.2020
In our opening statement, that we have published last summer, we articulated our desire to share with our subscribers the Central & Eastern European (aka Intermarium) perspective on world affairs
4 years temu
Igor Zagrebelny „Międzymorze. Szansa prawie utracona”. Book review
This is the first major attempt in Ukraine since the events of 2014 to address the phenomenon of the Intermarium. It undertakes a deep intellectual reflection about the place of Ukraine in this developing geopolitical project.
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 01-07.02.2020
Last week brought a slew of diplomatic activity in the Eastern Europe. Mike Pompeo visited in Minsk and while there promised to cover all of Belarus’ oil demand. In Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Erdogan tightened Ankara’s relations with Ukraine and its new President Vladimir Zelensky against the Russian Federation as retaliation for Russian actions in Syria against rebels in Idlib...
4 years temu
Macron visits Poland, France revisits the old balancing game.
On Monday February 2nd, a plane carrying French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Warsaw, marking the first time he had visited Poland since he was elected nearly three years ago.
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 27.01-02.02.2020
Pompeo travels to Kiev and Minsk; Germany and Turkey seek closer economic ties with Ukraine; Moldova slowly re-orientates itself towards the East. Minsk unexpectedly orders a comprehensive combat readiness of the Armed Forces of Belarus, and an answer to the Collective Security Treaty Organization under the leadership of Russia preparing own its exercises in Belarus.
4 years temu
Belarus, the perennial borderland
Ever since Belarus emerged as a sovereign state from the chaotic period of the early 1990s, it has seldom caught the eye of western – and, lamentably, eastern – analysts...
4 years temu
What Are the A2AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) Capabilities All About?
A2/AD stands for Anti-Access/Area Denial and has become an increasingly popular term in military circles over recent years. It’s a concept that refers to the military and technological measures...
4 years temu
Intermarium Weekly 18-24.01.2020
In our opening statement, that we have published last summer, we articulated our desire to share with our subscribers the Central & Eastern European (aka Intermarium) perspective on world affairs
5 years temu
Putin in the Near and Middle East: assessments, outcomes and consequences
The first global geopolitical events 2020 were rapid and alarming. The consequences for the entire year are still unknown. Last week, the world was occupied with the Middle East - the events were happening so fast and unpredictable, that nobody knew what would come next and many expected the worst scenarios...
5 years temu
The Syrian express and a Mediterranean smoking chimney: The Russian fleet in the Mediterranean
In August 2008, Russia invaded Georgia. In its wake, the US Navy demonstrated its overwhelming land-attack capabilities in the Black Sea. It was supported by other NATO countries by sending ships through the Bosporus, which in fact frightened Russian decision-makers...
5 years temu
Intermarium Weekly
In the opening statement at Strategy&Future we articulated last summer the desire to share with our subscribers the Central & Eastern European aka European Intermarium perspective on world affairs, permanently influenced by the fluid balance of power in Eurasia and elsewhere in an increasingly volatile and fragile security environment that badly needs to be understood, not only by political and military leaders but also by individuals and business leaders...
5 years temu
Storm Brewing in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, i.e. Seminal Developments in Belarus
Interesting, and perhaps slightly surprising, because China - contrary to Russia - has decided in the last phase of the unification negotiations to support Belarus's position...
5 years temu
Turkish Middle Eastern Strategy: Geopolitical Implications for Libya and Eastern Mediterranean
The West is witnessing a new challenger in the Middle East that does not comply itself with the traditional Western hegemony to the region that had been lasting for decades...
5 years temu
Russian hybrid war – what is it all about?
We often hear about the Russian hybrid war, or using a more professional term - the next generation warfare. What exactly does this mean? It's time to clearly explain to Strategy&Future readers.
5 years temu
Americans have always thought in terms of geography: The Purchase of Louisiana
True, geography, or more broadly speaking, geopolitics - understood as the deployment of resources across space, using pivotal areas, points of strength and transport corridors - is not the only factor that defines the way states (and more specifically the leaders of states) behave...
5 years temu
Russia’s Gamble
Any position Russia takes in the Northern European Plain is not to calm the Russians...
5 years temu
What Is Power Projection All About
The term "power projection", often used in the language of military, geopolitics or geostrategy, is derived from the field of operational and strategic art, and...
5 years temu
Dear Reader,
In the very first article we have published I presented you with our mission statement. Back then I wrote the following words:
5 years temu
Air-Land Battle Concept
The brain behind the victorious Cold War operational Air-Land Battle Concept was General Donn A. Starry, who commanded the US Army Training and Doctrine Command between...
5 years temu
From Medyka to Rotterdam and back
They say that travel broadens the mind. Today, in the era of cheap flights, open borders and ubiquitous Internet, this saying takes on a special meaning...
5 years temu
“Tournament of shadows” by Elżbieta Cherezińska
"Sooner or later all roads lead east"...
5 years temu
The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Soviet reconnaissance-strike complex
In recent years, the notion of the Revolution in Military Affairs has been a sensation as a new stage in the way war is conducted. Something extremely important is at hand, so I decided that it would be necessary to...
5 years temu
Mahan’s Next 100 Years
Alfred T. Mahan remembered mainly as a brilliant proponent and pioneer of modern naval strategy - also drew upon a deep understanding of world history to make some eerily accurate guesses at what the future might hold. This feels like a good time to look back on some of the predictions he made...
5 years temu
The Geopolitical Antiquities
Ancient history seems to be an inexhaustible source of examples for all areas of human life. This is especially true of politics...
5 years temu
Smolensk Gate and the Golan Heights
The Polish theatre of war can be broken down into separate operational areas.
5 years temu
Journey to a forgotten place: Czesław Miłosz’s “The Issa Valley”
Lithuania. A unique place in Polish cultural awareness...
5 years temu
The Status Game
Contrary to what voters or the average Smiths often think, political leaders are not free actors in their actions...
5 years temu
Football is the key to Africa
Africa is experiencing the demographic boom. The human talent is the greatest resource available to humankind. In 21. century the African continent will become...
5 years temu
Congo
Years ago, as a young boy playing with bottle caps in the yard, I really liked this uniquely original bottle among others, with a green flag and a hand holding a torch...
5 years temu
Strategic Policy and Economy
Why is it that some countries are rich and have importance in the world, whilst others are poor and irrelevant?
5 years temu
Braniewo At the Frontier
8th August 2019 - in the early hours of the morning, I stood in Braniewo at ul. Zielona 25...
5 years temu
How Japan planned to win the Pacific War
- seen through the eyes of an intelligence officer of the Japanese fleet
5 years temu
Country of Origin? ‘Eastern Europe’: the life and times of Józef Mackiewicz
Józef Mackiewicz is not a well-known figure amongst the Polish people.
5 years temu
A Brief History of Wargaming
From the German Kriegsspiel to the Contemporary Era of Great Power Competition.
5 years temu
