The Pressing Need for a New Nuclear Doctrine

February 20, 2023

Ukraine:Serious Escalation on the Horizon

There are darker clouds of war on the horizon. The escalation is likely to be qualitatively different from the events…

Sovereignty: Now you see it, now you don’t (Pt. 2)

Sovereignty has two opposite attributes – it makes the sovereign immune to interference by other sovereigns in its internal affairs…

Comedian better strategist than the spy

Why should a comedian make a better war strategist than a long-time spy? Putin has ruined the reputation of his…

The Brave New World: Glocalized, Contaiged and Splintered

Three portmanteau words were lying orphaned, neglected. The Ukraine war has given them new refuge in the pens of respectable…

Lessons of the Ukraine war

This is a war among brothers; Ukrainians are closer to Russians than people of many of the other ethnicities in…

Putin’s Potemkin Military

Potemkin military”, said Andrei Kozyrev about the Russian Army. He ought to know, being no stranger to Russian affairs as…