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Interview with Corporal Frisk about military reductions in UK

2021-04-13 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Corporal Frisk’s look at the UK’s new “Defence in a competitive age” plan for the armed forces.

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

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 […]

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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

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

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

Militarization in the Baltic and the Arctic compared: The Arctic is the dangerous place

2019-05-24 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Borei class

The Arctic will not be a peaceful exception in a militarized world. In this post I compare the security situation in the Baltic and the Arctic. Both regions are militarized these days, but in very different ways. The most dangerous dynamics are in the Arctic, and it will get worse in the coming years.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics, Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Arctic, NATO, Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Rumors of imminent Russian attacks on Ukraine are usually wrong

2018-12-29 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Rumors that Russia would attack Ukraine during Christmas turned out to be false. That was predictable. If Russia wants to attack Ukraine, they are strong enough to do it whenever they want. They don’t need to check the Western holiday calendar. An escalation in January seems more likely.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Russia, Ukraine

Sanctions are a tool of reward, not of punishment

2018-12-14 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

It is doubtful that Western sanctions have had any effect on Russia’s behavior but that doesn’t mean that the sanctions don’t work. They will be good bargaining chips some day when things are less emotional.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: EU, Russia, USA

Why does Russia break the INF Treaty?

2018-11-05 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Iskander-K launcher

Before the INF Treaty collapses, it is worth pondering why Russia is building a missile that breaks it. I argue that it is because they want a conventional missile akin to Tomahawk. It is silly if we turn this into a nuclear race.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics, Nuclear weapons Tagged With: NATO, Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

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