Avdiivka Falls – The Battle for the Durna river line
On 17 February, Russian forces finally captured Avdiivka – once a city of 30,000 people – just ten kilometres from Donetsk. 110th Mechanised Brigade had...
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1,500 new and modernised tanks – really?
In the last week of March 2023 the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, travelled to the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant to chair a meeting...
Urban is Not Exceptional: A Response
In a recent article, Wilf Owen dismissed much of the recent writing about urban warfare, as misconceived, badly evidenced, and misguided. He fears that the...
Urbicide and the Russian-Ukrainian war
The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine graphically reminds us that wars often destroy cities. This essay responds to the numerous articles that are applying the...
Prigozhin opens a window into Wagner’s world
Wagner private military company (PMC) founder and boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has gained many epithets over the course of the war. Most recently he has been...
The War in Ukraine, one year on. What to read?
This combined book review seeks to cover some of the more impactful and useful of the recent releases...