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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally, Lester Grau and Charles Bartles author The Russian Way of War: History, Force Structure, and Tactics of the Russian Airborne Troops out from General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces, with Roger N. McDermott reviewing doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Grau and Bartles, The Russian Way of War: History, Force Structure, and Tactics of the Russian Airborne Troops

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bound by Exclusion and Violence. A history of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century by Alexandra Pomiecko, via University of Toronto Press, reviewed by Leonid Rein doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Bound by Exclusion and Violence. A history of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Last Days of Budapest. The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital In World War II by Adam LeBor, from Public Affairs Hachette Group and reviewed by Romedio Graf Thun doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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The Last Days of Budapest. The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital In World War II

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bitva o Moravskou Ostravu. Poslední nasazení německé 1. tankové armády (1945) [The Battle of Moravian Ostrava. The Last Deployment of the German 1st Tank Army (1945)] from Aleš Binar, Hlučín, Muzeum Hlučínska and reviewed by Jiří Friedl doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Bitva o Moravskou Ostravu. Poslední nasazení německé 1. tankové armády (1945) [The Battle of Moravian Ostrava. The Last Deployment of the German 1st Tank Army (1945)]

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First up Sofya Anisimova’s review essay, @sdanisimova.bsky.social "First World War Studies and Russian History: Disabled Veterans in Russia, 1904–1939” looking at Alexandre Sumpf’s Broken Years (2022) and Unfound Peace (2025) @cornellupress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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First World War Studies and Russian History: Disabled Veterans in Russia, 1904–1939

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reviews from 2027’s volume 39 issue 3 are here. Remember you are always welcome to reach out to an editor about reviewing something yourself in the journal. Or, recommend a book to be reviewed...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some say reading is dead… but perhaps not quite yet…

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A couple piece look at eastern Europe, including "Determinants of National Resilience in the Military: Findings from a Survey in the Czech Armed Forces,” from authors Vendula Divišová, Dominika Kosárová, Miroslava Pačková & Markéta Licková doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Determinants of National Resilience in the Military: Findings from a Survey in the Czech Armed Forces

This study investigates potential determinants of national resilience predictors in the Czech Armed Forces, including optimism, patriotism, support for democracy, or trust in political institutions...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A lot of folks will refer to "reflexive control,” but this piece by Sanshiro Hosaka @sanshiro.bsky.social "Misreading the Opponent: Zelensky’s Appeasement and Putin’s Failed Reflexive Control, 2019–2022” demonstrates some extensive research, analysis, and work with the topic doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Misreading the Opponent: Zelensky’s Appeasement and Putin’s Failed Reflexive Control, 2019–2022

In 2019, seeking a quick peace in the Donbas, newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made appeasing overtures toward the aggressor by obfuscating its direct responsibility for the war...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Volume 39 Issue 3 for 2027 is out… so check it out all these articles here www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3... If they aren’t open access… reach out to authors and ask for a pre-print copy. I’m sure they’d oblige.

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Finally, for books reviews, two authors look at memory in the war against Ukraine. First up, Heather Rellihan writes on "Feminist Memorialization in 'Looking at Women Looking at War’” by Victoria Amelina, from St. Martin’s Press @stmartinspress.bsky.social (us.macmillan.com/books/978125...)

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Looking at Women Looking at War

WINNER, THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGSHORT LIST, THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITINGWITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOODA NATIONAL BESTSELLE...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

and something that folks are hearing about everywhere nowadays, "Military Drones: A Thousand Snipers in the Air. Is the Russo-Ukrainian War a Tactical and Technological Inflection Point in The History of Warfare?” via Jean-François Caron

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The issue’s research articles are rounded out with "Forum Choice and Cohesion in NATO’s Response to Russia’s War on Ukraine” from Bence Nemeth @bencenemeth.bsky.social

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Marina Miron and Rod Thornton contribute "Re-evaluating Russian offensive cyber in the Ukraine war: Why NATO should be wary of judging it to have ‘failed’"

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

followed by "Can Europe ACE the Next War? Lessons from War in Ukraine for European Air Forces,” from Maria E. Burczynska @mariaeb.bsky.social

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Much of this issue is open access, so that’s pretty nice too... First piece up is "The Russo-Ukraine War: Preliminary Observations for Land Warfare,” by Christopher Tuck

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is especially relevant timing as the momentum of the conflict, in the fifth year, has shifted significantly. There’s little reason to contemplate minute Russian advances as Kyiv has seized the initiative…in terms of sea control, drone production, and targets struck across an ever-wider expanse

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Second issue of the year… is a special issue on Ukraine, "Lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” guest edited by Deborah Sanders here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Dr Sanders also covers the naval situation in "Maritime lessons from the war in Ukraine"

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Lessons from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Meet the sideshow FREAKS who REFUSE to use the work-stealing, planet-burning, minority-choking, teen-killing, water-guzzling, brain melter that gets most things wrong and makes the user decide whether they give a shit enough to do their job correctly or if they've given up completely on themselves.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If you’re using the word “marathon” in a context with Iran, for God’s sake look up the fucking etymology you ignorant churls

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

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The Next Coup Attempt

And How to Stop It

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026

Holy shit, this Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge found "AI" bullshit in briefs filed by the lawyers in this case and was having utterly and completely None Of It. Fucking *Love* to see it.

JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. These consolidated appeals concern several lawsuits filed over an incident at the annual fireworks show hosted by the City of Athens, Tennessee, in 2022, and the subsequent fallout. By separate opinion issued this date, we affirm the district court in all respects.

This opinion addresses the misconduct of Glenn Whiting’s lawyers, Van Irion and Russ Egli, in their briefing before this court and the sanctions we impose for it. That briefing repeatedly misrepresented the record, cited non-existent cases, and cited cases for propositions of law that they did not even discuss, much less support. As explained below, Irion’s and Egli’s misconduct warrants the sanctions laid out in Section II.C.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/03/2026

In all my years at WaPo, this happened to me twice, and it was a huge Marty-Baron-is-calling-your-boss-level deal. Now that I’m indy, it’s three times in a month, that I know of! It’s fucking disgusting. I made $220 from paid subscriptions last month and a salaried journalist is stealing from me.

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Motria Oleksiyivna, PhD @motria.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Petition End Russia's Academic Privilege: Remove 'Russia' from Titles at University Studies Centers the time of privileged exclusivity should have been over years ago. Now is the time to stop spotlighting Russia at academic resource centers. c.org/rMvkBvtCbN

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Oh look, Ukraine has cards!

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The world is finally seeing what Ukraine deals with every single night. The chaos caused by a few hundred drones across the entire Middle East last weekend is what a single Tuesday in Kyiv looks like. Russia has launched tens of thousands of shaheds since this started

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

hire 👏 copy 👏 editors 👏 for 👏 your 👏 substacks (I know I know most people can't afford that shit but ugh it drives me nuts)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...

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Trump’s State of the Union Reminds Us The Republican Party Is Truly Lost

More evidence that the Republican Party has been entirely transformed into the party of violence and authoritarianism.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 19/02/2026

🧵 It is important to point out that the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were very similar to these. The so-called "wild camps" were located in all kinds of diverse locations (basements, warehouses, even boats.). They were characterized by varying levels of violence and almost no oversight.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And "Truce Becomes Peace: Resolution of the International Status on Trieste," via John Hickman

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

"'One of Our Own among Strangers and a Stranger among Our Own': The Surprising Destiny of General of the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army Fedor Makhin" by Andrey Ganin...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

"Geography in Motion: Andrei Snesarev and the Military-Political Situation in Strategic Planning," by longtime editor/contributor to the journal, Roger N. McDermott...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Then, "Siloviki at Senior Levels of Selected Russian Civilian Ministries," from Stephen Fortescue...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

First up, "From Nuclear Proliferation to Hybridity: The Evolution of Russian Understandings of Strategic Deterrence" by Asya Cooley, Skye Cooley, and Sumin Shin...

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

First issue of the year, with pieces on nuclear threats, strategic planning, siloviki, but also reaching down into southeast Europe as well... Moving from articles to reviews, you are indeed seeing double when you check out vol 39 iss 1... www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 25/01/2026

Some real Swan Lake shit

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

And I don’t bloody care if the guy who got killed was the worst criminal ever we have laws we have rules you do NOT get to kill people in the street. JFC 🤬 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

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Journal of Slavic Military Studies @josms.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If you’d like to review this, drop a message… Got this book in: The Siege of Mariupol: The Azovstal Steel Plant and Ukraine’s Battle for Survival by Christopher Lawrence and Stefan Korshak. www.penandswordbooks.com/978139903420...

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The Siege of Mariupol - Pen and Sword Books

The Siege of Mariupol details Ukraine’s heroic defense, civilian suffering, and Russian forces’ eventual capture.On 24 February 2022, the President of Ru...

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

was in a meeting recently and someone pitched making trailers with AI for a book and I cut them off and said absolutely not and they dropped it. not hard! do not use the tools of the enemy!

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