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Markus Balázs Göransson

@mbgoransson.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, (post-)Soviet wars.

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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jag pratade med ETC om misstankarna om valfusk i Sverige och ryska påverkanskampanjer. www.etc.se/inrikes/saa-...
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Så blir debatten om valresultatet foder för ryska trollfabriker
Rysk infrastruktur står redo  • SD-kopplad tankesmedja bakom sajten "Omval2026"
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vad gör man inte för den yngre generationen 😊
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sant! Det var en riktig kalasvurpa mitt framför ögonen på dem. Jag har haft duktigt ont i ett par dagar men ingen fraktur sa de på sjukhuset.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Barnen skadades inte. Bara min kropp och självaktning.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Löjligaste cykelolyckan. Saktade ner för att runda en grupp lågstadiebarn. Åkte över en tillplattad pappersmugg. Slirade. Cykeln vek sig under mig. Jag hårt på ryggen. Bakhuvudet i asfalten. Jag hade hjälm på. Ha det du med när du cyklar.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't remember the last time I was so completely drawn in by a novel's opening. Faruk Šehić, Quiet Flows the Una.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
En mycket intressant och detaljrik artikel av en av Sveriges bästa bevakare av kriget I Ukraina. officerstidningen.se/ganska-latt-...
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”Ganska lätt att överleva en drönare” - Officerstidningen
Ta vara på gamers och jägare. Få ut 3D-skrivare på lägre förbandsnivå, klä stridsvagnen i en nätbur och utnyttja Rysslands besatthet av rutiner. Skaffa en hagelbössa – oavsett gradbeteckning. Under en...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jävligt trist! Hoppas dina ögon blir bättre snart. Och att så många slipper drabbas.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
and Ukrainian armed forces, along with much else. Thank you to all the participants, the moderators and the generosity of CBEES who made it all possible.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We learned about Soviet legacies in Ukrainian military museums before 2014, Slavic representation in Estonia's Defense Forces, Romanian strategic and security culture, hybrid military cultures in the national guards of post-Sovier authoritarian states and gender equality in both the Lithuanian /
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It was a pleasure co-hosting a workshop on Post-Communist Military Cultures and Change at Södertörn University's Center for Baltic and East European Studies together with my colleague Piotr Wawrzeniuk, with a lineup of really fascinating papers from colleagues across east-central Europe.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Har en nära anhörig som fått problem med ögonen 3-4 gånger de senaste tre åren utan att ha haft problem tidigare.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Here is my chapter. The rest of the volume is also very well worth your time. It's all open-access: academic.oup.com/book/63147/c...
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The Ukraine War in 2024: The Kursk Incursion and Beyond
Abstract. This chapter considers military operations in Ukraine in 2024. It notes that Ukraine’s failed 2023 counter-offensive cast a long shadow over subs
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
alter the basic fact that states face tradeoffs and retain options in their force deployment and that transparency does not equal omniscience as intentions can still remain hidden (see Ukraine's disguising of its concentration of forces in Sumy in summer 2023 as defensive preparations). /
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The August Kursk incursion, especially, demonstrated the continued relevance of flanks and maneuver despite massive advances in sensors and fortifications. The so-called transparency of the battlefield posed formidable defensive obstacles in parts of the operational theater but did not../
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My chapter explores military operations in 2024 and considers how Ukraine, after the failure of its 2023 counteroffensive, partly accepted but also tried to break out of the logic of attritional warfare by mounting operations against Russia's flanks and at its rear. /
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to be among the contributors to this fine volume about Russia's war in Ukraine and modern warfare published under Mikael Weissmann's and Niklas Nilsson's adroit editorship. / academic.oup.com/book/63147
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Russia's War in Ukraine and Modern Warfare: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology
Abstract. Russia’s war in Ukraine represents a watershed moment in the evolution of modern warfare, challenging long-held assumptions about how wars are fo
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Har också uppfattat ett visst överlapp. Norge utmanar bilden av det oöverträffade svenska samhällsbygget, det väcker irritation i vissa, bekanta led.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"När man är fem år har man levt jättelänge, men man har fortfarande väldigt mycket kvar av livet." Min dotter har helt rätt.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 27/06/2026
🌡️ Canicule : 109 morts à Paris en 24 heures, annonce le Samu Suivre le direct ➡️ l.liberation.fr/45f
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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
I loved doing my PhD in Sweden, and if I could do it again I would definitely choose the Swedish Defence University.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our department at the Swedish Defence University is inviting applications for several fully-funded PhD positions, including one with specialization in Russian Warfare (documented reading ability in Russian is required). This is an excellent opportunity. www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...
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PhD students in War Studies
The Department of War Studies invites applications for one or several fully funded PhD positions in War Studies. Duties The PhD programme consists of four years of full-time studies (240 ECTS credits...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I am happy to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor (docent) in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The chances that I will agree to review a submission to a journal that obviously has used an AI search to identify me as a potential reviewer and that approaches me with what is clearly an AI-generated request are nil.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Är det något västeråsare inte tror så är det att deras stad är världens bästa.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Också kul när tidigare kommunstyrelsens ordförande Anders Teljebäck (s) på Västerås nationaldagsfirande försökte få med sig publiken på ett rungande "Visst är Västerås världens bästa stad!" och möts av tystnad.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A beautiful gesture by Västerås' municipal authorities to give a prominent place to a cohort of Ukrainian youth visiting from our city's Ukrainian partner municipality Shatsk in our local national day celebrations yesterday.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Very happy to be among the contributors to this upcoming and timely book about the Ukraine War and its implications for contemporary and future warfare, under the excellent editorialship of Mikael Weissmann and Niklas Nilsson. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A great piece about Ukraine’s civil society and the 'civilianization' of Ukraine’s defense. neweasterneurope.eu/2026/05/28/w...
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War and civil society: what can Europe learn from Ukraine?
War is never only a military question. The military question goes far beyond the logistics of warfare, or even geopolitics. In shades of grey, it reveals what our societies are, what they will be, and...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Top-level trolling
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Literally lol
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Delighted about the first review of my book manuscript !
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Some evening reading under the apple tree with our 8-month old asleep in the baby carrier against my chest.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 14/05/2026
Meduza's latest count of Russian military deaths puts the total at 352K between Feb 2022 & late 2025. This instalment adds a new category of soldiers, currently estimated at 90K: men whose deaths left no body for a civil registry to record. I wrote this summary explaining how the calculations work.
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Dead souls and counting. The sixth installment in Meduza’s joint investigation into Russian war deaths adds 90,000 soldiers previously outside the tally and explains why the total will only rise — Med...
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David Ucko @ucko.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As NATO builds up its deep strike capability, this framework by Fabian Hoffmann sheds valuable light on different targeting strategies, their underlying logic and also their limitations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis
Can long-range strike weapons (LRS) create strategic-level effects? Despite extensive debate about the impact of LRS on contemporary warfare, the question of how such weapons can create strategic-l...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Hur isoleras man i Sverige mån tro?
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Den här nivån på det offentliga samtalet om smittskydd normaliserades under pandemin och nu dras vi med det fortfarande. www.dn.se/varlden/smit...
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mymlan found the coziest place.
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"And most importantly, an armed conflict with Ukraine is currently fundamentally at odds with Russia's national interests. [S]ome overexcited Russian experts would be well advised to forget their overly optimistic fantasies. And to prevent further reputational damage, never to mention them again."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"In short, there will be no Ukrainian blitzkrieg."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"regarding the duration... Russian expert community members suggest several hours, sometimes even several tens of minutes...[T]hey somehow forget that we've been through all this before. The phrase "taking a city with one parachute regiment in two hours" has become a classic."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
There will likely be "massive Western assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces...In this regard, the West has already demonstrated an unprecedented consolidated position, which Moscow apparently did not anticipate...[T]he US and NATO countries will begin a kind of reincarnation of Lend-Lease."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"In this regard, we must always remember Alexander Suvorov's admonition: "Never despise your enemy, never consider him stupider or weaker than you.""
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"over the past seven years, Ukraine has created a fundamentally different army, based on a completely different ideological foundation ...And Ukraine is currently receiving, and continues to receive, highly modern weapons and equipment from many NATO countries."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Now regarding the thesis "The Ukrainian Armed Forces are in a deplorable state." Of course, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have problems with aviation and modern air defense systems. But one must also acknowledge the following."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"It's somehow forgotten that the Afghan opposition forces didn't have a single aircraft or combat helicopter during the 1979-1989 conflict. And the war in that country lasted for a full 10 years...The Ukrainian Armed Forces, however, do have some combat aircraft, as well as air defense assets."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Sometimes, the Russian expert community asserts that since hypothetical military operations in Ukraine would take place under conditions of complete air superiority by Russian aircraft, the war would be extremely short-lived and would end in the shortest possible time."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"It must be added that the Russian Armed Forces' stockpiles of advanced, high-precision weapons are not unlimited...This arsenal is completely insufficient to wipe out a country the size of France and with a population of over 40 million people."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"To claim that no one in Ukraine will defend the regime is, in practice, a complete ignorance of the military-political situation...[T]he degree of hatred in the neighboring republic toward Moscow is frankly underestimated. No one will meet the Russian army with bread, salt, and flowers."
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Khodarenok takes issue with those experts and "members of the Russian political class" who think an attack on Ukraine will be a walk in the park. It will be no such thing, he says.
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