Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blood, Philip W.,

Titel

Putin's War, Russian Genocide : Essays About the First Year of the War in Ukraine

Ort / Verlag

Stuttgart : ibidem -Verlag,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2023]

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Intro -- REFERENCE MAPS -- UKRAINE 20 -- UKRAINE INVASION MAP 24 FEBRUARY 2022 -- UKRAINE SITUATION MAP APRIL 2023 -- PREFACE -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE -- Dr Philip W. Blood (editor, military &amp -- holocaust historian) -- Dr Roger Cirillo (retired armoured cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel US army, military author, and editor) -- Professor Chris Bellamy (professor emeritus Greenwich, UK, visiting fellow Pembroke college, Oxford, military historian and editor) -- Dustin Du Cane (lawyer) -- 1. MILITARY HISTORY, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND WAR CRIMES Philip W. Blood -- War crimes and public media -- Coming to terms with the past -- Russian war Crimes and Putin's War -- The verdict of history -- 2. COLD WAR MEMORIES FROM EUROPE'S PAST Roger Cirillo -- Reflections of a Cold War soldier -- Western European Security, NATO and the US commitment to Europe -- NATO's forward defence strategy -- Flexible response shapes NATO strategic thinking -- Escalation: from conventional forces to nuclear weapons -- The use of chemical/biological weapons fall within nuclear escalation -- From battlefield nuclear weapons to all-out nuclear war -- The long-forgotten unwritten rules and protocols -- NATO and Warsaw Pact forces generated a war morality -- The US military's attitude towards Europe and NATO -- NATO's Article 5 -- Warsaw Pact nations joined NATO -- Impressions of Russian military capability -- The costs of the military-industrial complex -- 3. HYBRID AND NON-LINEAR WARFARE IN RUSSIAN STRATEGIC THINKING Chris Bellamy -- Prologue: of little green men -- The science of future war -- Science fiction and visions of future war -- 'Hybrid war': plus ça change? -- The Russian denial -- Trojan horses-Afghanistan, 1979 -- Trojan horses-Czechoslovakia, 1968 -- Trojan horses? Hungary 1956.
• 'Revolutionierungspolitik' and 'myatezhevoyna': the gradual evolution of 'non-linear' techniques, 1914-2014 -- Reflexive control and cybernetics: the key to modern Russian non-linear war -- The cyber dimension -- Conclusion -- 4. 'NO PLAN SURVIVES CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY' Chris Bellamy -- The build-up to war: First encircle -- The naval build-up -- Having encircled, then strike the head -- Ukraine's Stalingrad: Mariupol -- Conclusion: from non-linear to linear -- 5. STRATEGY IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL WAR Philip W. Blood -- Strategy and the path to global war -- The shifting sands of global strategies -- Putin and NATO - an intractable confrontation -- Putin and the Russian population -- Strategic humanitarianism and the case for an European army -- 6. PUTIN'S WAR RUSSIAN GENOCIDE Philip W. Blood -- Putin's terror -- Putin's special military operation-Russian security warfare -- Putin's genocide: holocaust by bombardment -- The case of the individual perpetrator -- Post-mortems of social media and genocide -- 7. CRIMES, WAR, AND GENOCIDE Dustin Du Cane -- A genocide lawyer is born -- Towards the Holocaust -- The Holocaust and the law -- Genocide codified -- Justice for Genocide -- 8. RUSSIAN LAW OF WAR Dustin Du Cane -- Knowing the law -- Applying the law -- Memory in law -- 9. REALKRIEG IN WARTIME Philip W. Blood -- Ripping yarns: culture wars and gaming strategy -- The Anaconda Plan One Year On -- The western quandary -- REFLECTIONS -- Philip W. Blood -- Dustin Du Cane -- Chris Bellamy -- Roger Cirillo.
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