Grand strategy has been with us at least as long as states have used the power at their disposal to advance their interests. The academic debate surrounding grand strategy, however, is of more recent vintage, largely taking off in the post-Cold War period.[1] It is a testament to the heft of that debate that grand... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
“Kim Il-sung in the Soviet Army, 1940–1945: His Experience and Its Future Impact on the North Korean State and Armed Forces,” by Konstantin Tertitski and Fyodor Tertitskiy deals with the years Kim Il-sung spent in the Soviet Union in 1940–1945. During most of this time, Kim served as a battalion commander in the 88th Separate... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein has dominated my professional and personal life. From the beginning of my Army career, when his invasion of Kuwait occasioned my first combat tour in Operation Desert Storm, to the middle, when I served as a tank battalion task force operations officer in Al Anbar as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom,... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
One of the philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s best-known jokes is set in Poland in 1981, shortly after martial law was declared. After the 10PM curfew, military patrols could shoot on sight anyone who was still in the streets. At ten of ten, two soldiers saw a man walk hurriedly by. One soldier promptly shot him. Alarmed,... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
There is a pitched information battle occurring around the globe between powerful states about their respective versions of international order. The Kremlin effectively employs a “firehose of falsehood” about the nature of the Russo-Ukraine War, the purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Russia’s place in the world.[1] China’s military doctrine goes as... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Russia and Ukraine raises the important questions asked by many observers after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia: Why did Russia attack Ukraine? How did Ukraine manage to withstand the full-scale invasion by the world’s largest nuclear power? How did diplomacy fail to prevent the invasion, and could it at all have been prevented?... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
William James has written a very good book that offers insights on the state of academic research into grand strategy as a subfield; proposes a new approach to evaluating the success and failures of specific national grand strategies based on the idea of proportionality; and details three case studies of British grand strategy in the... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Forum on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Emerging Technologies| H-Diplo|RJISSF
The spread of emerging technologies, such as additive manufacturing (AM, aka 3-D printing), artificial intelligence (AI), and remote sensing (RS, including surveillance drones and imaging satellites), could have significant implications for both the proliferation of nuclear weapons and nonproliferation efforts to stop them. These technologies could diffuse more easily due to their dual-use nature and... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Israel and the Asian states have developed contacts for some time, but the details remain vague.[1] Israel has commercial ties with China, but what about military ties? Prime ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi met in 2017, but what did they talk about?[2] H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Guy D. Middleton, Newcastle University and Durham University 15 July 2025 | PDF: http://issforum.org/to/RE133 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Daniel R.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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Review by Alexandra Chinchilla, Texas A&M University 3 June 2025 | PDF: http://issforum.org/to/RE127 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Daniel R.| H-Diplo|RJISSF
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