Interview with Dominik P. Jankowski (Head of OSCE and Eastern Security Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland) How do you assess the outcomes of the NATO Warsaw summit? It was a great summit, both in terms of the outcomes, but also from our perspective as a host nation…
Interview with Stephen Blank What is the impact of emergent A2/AD bubbles for a regional ecosystem? This is standard Russian practice and it’s the way a land power thinks about the sea. At the time of the Soviet Union, they helped the Egyptians recover the Sinai peninsula. They had the air defence over the Egyptian sea…
Interview with Martin Vladimirov What was the most profound impact that Crimea’s annexation had on regional energy security? The Crimean crisis and the continuing instability in Eastern Ukraine have turned into a rude wake up call for Europe’s energy security vulnerabilities. Russia has demonstrated its capacity to yield political and economic influence on the countries in…
Interview with Mark Galeotti What made Ukraine the ideal victim/target for hybrid warfare? What are the societal prerequisites/conditions, the ideal set-up that enable hybrid warfare? The tragedy of Ukraine has been the tragedy of its history since 1991. This is not so much a failed state as a state that never succeeded in the first…
Interview with Mark Galeotti “In the 21st century we have seen a tendency toward blurring the lines between the states of war and peace. (…) The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness.” (Russian Chief…
Interview with Jim Thomas During the last sequences of the Cold War, the US and NATO emphasized new capabilities and new operational concepts – Assault Breaker, Air Land Battle, Follow-On Forces Attack. What role did these elements have in changing Soviet perceptions about the military balance, including restoring a credible deterrence on the NATO’s Central…
Interview with Christopher S. Chivvis In a time when regional access and traditional power projection become problematic, and NATO is still preserving an outdated defense in depth posture, do you see the Wales summit package – overwhelmingly based on the promise of expeditionary forces – enough to credibly reassure the Baltic states after Crimea? The Wales…
Interview with Stephen Blank Please explain to our readers, what are these access-denial capabilities and what is their purpose? Anti-Access and area denial capabilities (A2/AD) are military capabilities that would deny an attacker the opportunity of projecting military power by air, sea or land into your territory. They would comprise air defense systems, anti-ship attack…
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