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Lukashenko weaponizes refugees against Lithuania

2021-07-03 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Belarus is apparently channeling migrants from the Middle East and Africa into Lithuania as a way to put pressure on their neighbor.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Belarus, Lithuania

How Donald Rumsfeld deserves to be remembered

2021-07-02 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Not in a positive light.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: USA

Russia and the West moving into state of more “professional antagonism”

2021-07-01 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The Russian Prosecutor General has declared Bard College an “undesirable organization”. This means that any Russian citizen who maintains a relationship with the American liberal arts school faces up to six years in prison, while all foreign professors and students are banned from Russia. Bard runs a mini-campus in Saint Petersburg, so the number of […]

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

The argument that Russia’s security zones around Crimea are legal

2021-06-26 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Since HMS Defender’s recent freedom of navigation operation close to Crimea, there has been an interesting public debate about the legal aspects of innocent passage. My attention has been drawn to this article by professor Stefan Talmon where he makes the case that Russia’s suspension of this right in certain areas in the Black Sea […]

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

Do tripwire forces work?

2021-06-17 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Not according to Paul Poast and Dan Reiter. In this article in War on the Rocks titled Death without deterrence, or why tripwire forces are not enough they argue that nobody is deterred by a militarily insignificant body of soldiers whose only job it is to die. Though tripwire forces offer little deterrence power, larger […]

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

Silo-based nuclear missiles are better than their reputation, and Stanislav Petrov did not save the world

2021-06-16 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Pavel Podvig has some interesting points on his blog about the Soviet Union’s nuclear strategy and the value of silo-based missiles. Pavel’s point is that silo-based ICBMs are much more useful than they are typically made out to be: Silo-based multiple-warhead ICBMs have a consistently bad reputation with the arms control crowd and nuclear hawks […]

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

Some thoughts on HMS Dragon’s FONOPS off Crimea

2021-06-03 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Last week, first deputy director of FSB and leader of Russia’s border control service Vladimir Kulishov made some noticeable comments to RIA Novosti about an incident in October 2020 involving the British destroyer HMS Dragon. The British warship crossed the territorial waters off Crimea in what must be characterized as a Freedom of Navigation Operation […]

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

US needs a new Arctic security strategy

2021-06-01 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

David Auerswald in War on the Rocks: The exercise in March highlighted increased Russian military activity in the Arctic, but that was not the sole Russian signal. U.S. Alaska Command, under U.S. Northern Command, reported that they had intercepted more Russian military aircraft near the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone in 2020 than at any […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Arctic, USA

The history of Danish gendarmerie forces

2021-05-30 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Rasmus Dahlberg and Henrik Stevnsborg have an interesting look at the history of Danish gendarmerie forces in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies: Since 1952, Denmark has had no border gendarmes, and since 1894, gendarmes have not patrolled the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. The ghost of the gendarmes, however, has kept on haunting Danish […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: Denmark

The sorry state of collective European defense capabilities

2021-05-13 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Robert Dalsjö and Michael Jonsson in a great piece in War on the Rocks on the state of NATO and Europe’s ability to defend itself: This has led to at least two lively debates, one on just how deficient NATO’s defenses against Russia are, and the other on how to respond to the threat of […]

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics Tagged With: NATO

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