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About Anders Puck Nielsen

Anders Puck Nielsen is the writer of the Romeo Squared blog. He is a military analyst at the Center for Maritime Operations at the Royal Danish Defense College.

Clausewitz may help us understand why forever wars take forever

2021-01-16 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

David Betz has written an article in Military Strategy Magazine titled In Search of a Point: The Blob at War on the importance of Clausewitz in modern war theory: [Consider] that the greatest military power in the world today has not won a war in seventy-five years. So accustomed now is the world to this […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Military theory

Armenia’s over-confidence and the catastrophic defeat in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

2021-01-13 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Great article by Michael A. Reynolds for War on the Rocks about Armenia’s painful defeat in the recent war with Azerbaijan: This second conflict came as no surprise. With peace talks stalled, Azerbaijan had, for over a decade, been threatening war and ostentatiously arming for one. Nor was the war’s outcome any surprise. The bigger […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics

Why Small Navies Prefer Warfighting over Counter-Piracy

2020-11-02 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Spectrum of operations

Small navies face hard choices when forced to prioritize between tasks. This article uses Denmark’s counter-piracy effort in 2008-15 as a lens into the problem.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Denmark

Russia is up to something: Probably shaping a Belarus intervention

2020-09-03 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

The many incidents with the Russian military over the last few weeks are not a coincidence. It looks like a prelude to intervention in Belarus.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Belarus, Denmark, NATO, Russia, Sweden, USA

Operational countermeasures against Russian A2/AD – My contribution to new FOI report

2020-08-04 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

I have contributed to FOI’s new report with a look at Russian A2/AD from an operational perspective. My argument is that it probably wouldn’t work.

Filed Under: Air Force Tagged With: Russia

Russia signs contract for new versatile helicopter carriers

2020-06-08 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Russia’s new universal landing ships are much more than amphibious assault carriers. They are a multi-tool of giant warships, designed for many different types of operations.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: Russia

A look at the Baltic Fleet and the defense of Kaliningrad

2020-04-06 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Boikiy

Kaliningrad is a military stronghold in the Baltic Sea. It is also an interesting case of Russia’s joint approach to defense under the leadership of the Baltic Fleet. Here is a quick overview.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Russia, United Kingdom

Joint Iran-China-Russia exercise is impressive display of naval diplomacy

2019-12-28 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

A maritime exercise between Iran, China, and Russia has received much attention. It is a very small exercise where China and Russia sent one warship each, so it is mostly a symbolic gesture. But the World response has demonstrated the power of naval diplomacy.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: China, Iran, Naval diplomacy, Russia

Sergey Shoigu has famous pro-Kremlin journalist fired over critical article

2019-09-27 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Sergey Shoigu

Defense analyst Ilya Kramnik has been fired from Izvestia for publishing a critical analysis of an interview with defense minister Sergey Shoigu. Kramnik particularly addressed Shoigu’s inclination to taking credit for other people’s achievements and the propagandized nature of the Defense Ministry’s PR-practices under Shoigu.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Russia

Russia’s A2/AD strategy is a myth

2019-09-09 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

A2/AD threat rings

It is time to let go of the idea of impenetrable A2/AD bubbles. Russia does not have the technical capabilities to do it, and politically it is hard to see why they would even want to. We need to start thinking about Russia’s missiles as a layered defense system instead. That is the point of this conference paper.

Filed Under: Navy Tagged With: NATO, Russia

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