Oleksandr Kraiev, Director of the North America Program at the Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council in Kyiv, discusses the full-cale Russian invasion, life in Kyiv, and developments in coming months.   

Oleksandr Kraiev - Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council 

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Matthew Ford, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, and Andrew Hoskins, Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow discuss Radical War - the way in which data and digitization are transforming warfare in the twenty-first century - smartphones in war, the new war ecology and the nature of attention.

FYI - for non-Brits - 'a bit marmite' translates as 'a divisive issue' - you love it or you hate it! (you have to try marmite to get it) 😁

Matt and Andrew's book Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century 

Matt and Andrew's website: radicalwar.com

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Follow Andrew on twitter: @andrewhoskins

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Maksym Yali, Head of the Center for New World Order and Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, provides a response from Kyiv to EU leaders visits to Kyiv and reflects on mounting losses for Russian forces. 

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Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, honorary Professor at University College London, and senior associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute, discusses new ways of warfare, responses, Putin's invasion of Ukraine ... and a fascinating story on the origin of The Gerasimov Doctrine (spoiler alert: Mark coined the term!). 

Mark's blog and info on recent books: In Moscow's Shadows

Mark's podcast: In Moscow's Shadows

Mark's article on The Gerasimov Doctrine 

Follow Mark on Twitter: @MarkGaleotti

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British Maj, Gen. Chip Chapman (ret.), who fought in the Falklands War, worked as the Head of Counterterrorism for the British Ministry of Defence served as the Senior British Military Advisor to the US Central Command, engages in a wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis of the current conflict in Ukraine - the early weeks, key misperceptions, and evaluation of the current situation and possible outcomes. 

Chip Chapman's book: Notes from a Small Military 

Follow Chip Chapman on twitter: @NotesFASMil

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US Army Maj. John Spencer (ret.), expert on urban warfare, breaks down the story of how a twitter thread on urban warfighting turned into The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender - translated into Ukrainian - (and 8 other languages!) - and distributed to Ukrainian armed forces as a how-to guide for urban combat.   

Read the Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender 

Learn more about John Spencer and his work

Follow John Spencer on Twitter: @spencerguard

John's latest book: Connected Soldiers 

John's podcast The Urban Warfare Project 

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Rory Cormac, Professor of International Relations at University of Nottingham, discusses his recent book 'How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft'. We engage in a lively discussion about covert action, disinformation and conditions for a successful coup. Fascinating deep-dive into a timely issue-area. 

Rory Cormac - How to Stage a Coup 

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Greg Carleton, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at Tufts University, joins me to discuss Russia's national identity of engaging in a perpetual war, the stories that underpin this identity, and the way in which fractures in these stories might shape the trajectory of conflict in Ukraine. 

Greg's book on the intersection between war and Russian national identity: Russia - The Story of War

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Maksym Yali, Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, provides an update - discussing Putin's recent 'rebranding' of the war and Ukrainians' on-going readiness to continue fighting in Donbas. 

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Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and leader of the ECFR's Technology and European Power initiative, with a focus on German and European security and defence, discusses Germany's position vis-a-vis Ukraine including Germany's approach to defense, military capability and war in Ukraine. 

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Ulrike Franke on German National Identity for War on the Rocks 

Ulrike Franke on military robots and drones for the Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies 

Ulrike Franke on proliferated drones 

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