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In the Shadow of the Thunderstorm: The Imminent Escalation of the European War Comes Closer
By Jahangir E. Arasli
22 May 2023
This IDD Analytical Policy Brief evaluates the current operations, Ukraine’s counter-offensive preparations (including its strategic disinformation campaign), Russia’s adaptation to the war, and the strategic risks for each side in case of failure.
Blind Alley: The European War Gets Chronic
By Jahangir E. Arasli
16 March 2023
This IDD Analytical Policy Brief provides a retrospective assessment of the past winter campaign in Ukraine whilst also focusing on the details of the ongoing preparations by both sides for the approaching decisive standoff. This essay also examines some of the broader effects of what is best described as the European War.
“At All Costs” Russia Gets Ready for Another Deadly Gambit in Ukraine
By Jahangir E. Arasli
27 January 2023
This analytical policy brief provides an account of the military developments of the idle winter campaign and analyses trends and factors influencing the expected return of active warfare. Particular emphasis is placed on the parallel preparations, accelerated by both belligerents, in order to break the current stalemate in their own favor.
Escalation for the Sake of Procrastination
By Jahangir E. Arasli
21 November 2022
This IDD analytic policy brief assesses the shifting course of the war in the past two months, measures potential scenarios for the upcoming winter period, and evaluates the war’s increasing influence on Russia’s domestic political agenda, with an emphasis on the role of non-systemic and quasi-systemic militarized actors empowered by the war.
One Hundred Days in Ukraine
By Jahangir E. Arasli
03 June 2022
Two Forbes headlines three months apart: “Will Russia Invade Ukraine? (12 February 2022) and “Will the Ukrainian Army Invade Russia? (16 May 2022). And today, on 3 June 2022, the European (a.k.a. the Russo-Ukrainian) war turned one hundred days old. Within this period, its trajectory has been remarkable: from a botched blitzkrieg to an evident stalemate. At the moment, Russia continues pressing but cannot defeat Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine fights back but cannot harm Russia enough to force it to turn to a political solution.
Russian Military Power in Ukraine
By Jahangir E. Arasli
18 April 2022
The inaugural Chief of imperial Germany’s Great General Staff, General Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, wrote in Über Strategie (1871) that “no plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main force.” This explicit warning has found its proof once again on the Ukrainian battlefield, where Russian combat operations, which they call a “special military operation,” faltered from its beginning and appears to be far from achieving what have been reported as its strategic goals and objectives.
Does Western Solidarity With Ukraine Amount to Geo-Economic Malpractice?
By Damjan Krnjević Mišković
04 April 2022
This analytic brief is the first of at least two such papers on this general theme that I will produce for the Institute for Development and Diplomacy.
The European Dimension of the Crisis Over Ukraine
By Jahangir E. Arasli
28 March 2022
The latest phase of the conflict over Ukraine has entered its second month. Although it has produced immediate ripple effects around the globe, its long-term repercussions will only begin cascading later. This analytic policy brief examines the multiple consequences thereof and its emerging new realities in the context of Europe.
The Bear Got Stuck in the Ukrainian Mud
By Jahangir E. Arasli
16 March 2022
The overt military phase of the lengthy conflict over Ukraine is now three weeks old. Shortly before the start of the armed hostilities that began on 24 February 2022, Pentagon sources suggested that Kiev would fall in just three days. I will come back to this forecast in the concluding section. The present policy brief focuses primarily on the military-strategic aspects of the present conflict, leaving aside political and other aspects for another time.
The Fog of the “Non-War” in Ukraine
By Jahangir E. Arasli
08 March 2022
On 24 February 2022, the lengthy crisis over Ukraine escalated into a major conventional war with the deployment of a nearly 200,000-strong Russian force onto the territory of its neighbor. Although having become the largest war in Europe since 1945, Russia insists on calling it a “special military operation”—a rather Orwellian turn of phrase.
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