Young / Gryz Tactical and Strategic Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War

Western Security and Defence in the 21st Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80413-156-5
Verlag: University of Exeter Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

Reihe: Exeter Strategic & Security Studies

This edited collection is the first volume to consider potential new insights afforded by the Russo-Ukrainian War that could be salient for Western defence officials and planners. The contributors reflect on what are likely to be important issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure that Western armed forces are capable of deterring Russia. Closely examining how the war is being fought throughout the battlespace, the chapters avoid falling into the trap of making determinative statements about which developments might be trendsetters or are ‘new’ aspects of modern war. Rather, and given that this conflict apparently is far from over, the contributors eschew determinism and instead offer open-ended and clear-eyed analysis of what is playing out on the ground.

Individual chapters address the following lines of analysis, among others, arising from the war:

- Russian thinking on warfare and how it has been misunderstood by many in the West, as well as judging Russian military performance as simply being represented in numerical results.

- Manoeuvre, and the growing importance of urban areas in land warfare.

- Developments in the delivery of kinetic force (land, air, maritime and cyber) and operational fires.

- Longer-term effects of Russia’s rejection of the law of war and its systematic breaches of international legal norms by actively attacking non-military targets (economic, infrastructure, cultural assets), and the implications of this for NATO’s logistic formations and higher-level policy.

- Communications—both field signals and strategic narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Thomas-Durell

Gryz, Jaroslaw

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The scope of the Russo–Ukrainian War Jaroslaw Gryz and Thomas-Durell Young

DOI: 10.47788/EGCI4249

1. The Russo–Ukraine War: How Russian Military Theory Presaged Future Wars Krisztián Jójárt

DOI: 10.47788/DJHU8663

2. OSINT Chronicles: Analysing Frontline Dynamics, Equipment Losses, and Casualties in the First 500 Days of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Zsolt Lazar

DOI: 10.47788/LUVD1621

3. Battlefield Communications in the Russo–Ukraine War: The First Six Months Glen Grant

DOI: 10.47788/PFVT3249

4. The Russo–Ukraine War and the Urban Battle Anthony King

DOI: 10.47788/SHOY7950

5. Operational Fires: Lessons Observed Zhirayr Amirkhanyan 10.47788/AREP3606

6. Ukraine’s Air War in Context Christian F. Anrig

DOI: 10.47788/EBYW9203

7. The Black Sea as an Area of Military Operations during the Russian ‘Special Operation’ Piotr Mickiewicz and Daniel D. Kasprzycki

DOI: 10.47788/IBXT9684

8. In the Classroom of Cyber-War: Lessons Observed from the Cyber-Kinetic Nexus Roman Kolodii

DOI: 10.47788/CHIW9689

9. Logistics Lessons Observed: A Critical Enabler and Vulnerability Ronald Ti

DOI: 10.47788/VPNU6680

10. Ukrainian Cultural Heritage in the Russian–Ukrainian War: Ukrainian Theatre—A Case Study Ilona Urych, Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun, Robert Boroch and Tadeusz Szczurek

DOI: 10.47788/PVYF5322

11. Lessons Observed from Critical Energy Infrastructure: Its Role in the Russian–Ukrainian War Jaroslaw Gryz, Andrzej Sobon, Dariusz Majchrzak, Krzysztof Król and Andrzej Wilk

DOI: 10.47788/GJCE7611

12. Lessons Observed: Countering Information Warfare Marlena Zadorozna

DOI: 10.47788/PWBY1376

Conclusion: Preliminary insights for NATO defence officials and planners Jaroslaw Gryz and Thomas-Durell Young

DOI: 10.47788/ESKG7392

Über Autor(innen)

Gryz, Jaroslaw
Jaroslaw Gryz is Vice-Rector of Student Affairs and Quality of Education at the War Studies Academy, Warsaw, Poland. He received his PhD from the University of Warsaw and is a Full Professor in the Faculty of National Security, Institute of Strategic Studies.

Young, Thomas-Durell
Thomas-Durell Young is Senior Academic Advisor to the President of Defense Security Cooperation University, Washington, DC. He has advised defence reform programs in Central and Eastern Europe for 25 years and is author of many works on defence planning and management.  He is editor of the journal Defense & Security Analysis.

Thomas-Durell Young is Senior Academic Advisor to the President of Defense Security Cooperation University, Washington, DC. He has advised defence reform programs in Central and Eastern Europe for 25 years and is author of many works on defence planning and management. He is editor of the journal Defense & Security Analysis.

Jaroslaw Gryz is Vice-Rector of Student Affairs and Quality of Education at the War Studies Academy, Warsaw, Poland. He received his PhD from the University of Warsaw and is a Full Professor in the Faculty of National Security, Institute of Strategic Studies.