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{"title":"Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender?","authors":"Alexander Hill","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"319 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ready or Not? Explaining Military Strategic Diversity Among NATO’s New European Allies","authors":"H̊akan Edström, Jacob Westberg","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283967","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the defense transformation processes during the two initial decades of the twenty-first century among the 11 former communist states that currently are members of both the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The article introduces an analytical framework for systematic comparisons of states’ priorities regarding military strategy. Moreover, the article evaluates the influence of two intervening variables: (i) differences in relative power between middle powers and small states and (ii) differences in geographical exposure. Our findings suggest that differences related to these intervening variables correlate with differences in prioritized strategic ends, means, and ways.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"385 1","pages":"219 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Missed Opportunity? Czech Historiography of Modern War in the 21st Century","authors":"Jiří Hutečka","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2288977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2288977","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to summarize recent developments in Czech scholarship dedicated to the study of war and warfare. Over the past decade, numerous authors have expressed dismay at the state of the field, analyzing its situation with often harsh criticism. This article aims to offer a comprehensive fresh look at the state of research as it has developed over the past twenty years, to prove or disprove these judgments. Its conclusions are far from positive and it is obvious that military historiography — while dominating the popular study of history — is not the most progressive area in Czech historical scholarship. However, individual authors and some particular fields of research are closer to international and mainstream scholarly discourse than previously thought. While the field remains very much disjointed in its topical coverage of the past, being heavily dependent on individual authors and their preferences, some areas, in particular the First World War and the post-1945 period, perhaps even the patchy selection of works on the nineteenth-century Habsburg period, show some promise in terms of methodological innovation. Particularly strong is the “war and society” approach to military history, while the cultureal history of warfare is getting increasingly more attention in recent years as well. On the other hand, the inter-war period and the history of the Second World War remain firmly rooted in a neo-positivist discourse developed throughout the 1990s, producing descriptive biographies or histories of military institutions often attached to a strongly politicized/nationalized perspective on history. In particular, a scant international relevance and self-centered approach is the problem here, with analyses often all but ignoring the current state of research and methodology in a global perspective. As a result, it remains uncertain whether and when Czech military historiography will be able to overcome its conservative tendencies to integrate itself either into the international discourse on the history of warfare or into the academic study of history in general.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"271 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941","authors":"T. Loyd","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"122 1","pages":"316 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Russia’s Iron Horse and Its Logistics Limitations in the Ukrainian War","authors":"Jean-François Caron","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283963","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The slow advance of the Russian army in Ukraine in the first stage of its invasion and its eventual withdrawal from the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions in April 2022 has raised several questions among analysts. Although this situation can be explained by numerous factors, this research note highlights how the Russian military’s organization of its logistics and resupply around railways has played a significant role in its failure to achieve the Kremlin’s initial objectives.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"294 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Technological Transformation of Russian Conventional Fires","authors":"R. McDermott","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283962","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Russia’s Armed Forces have long struggled in combat operations to fix and locate enemy targets and follow up with precision strikes. The new Reconnaissance-Fire System (ROS) allows combined-arms units to conduct operations in real time and greatly increases the speed and accuracy of Russian fires on the future battlefield. This process has already made significant progress, with its future development earmarked as a high priority in Moscow’s defense planning. The ROS is a network-centric capability offering vastly enhanced target acquisition and strikes across the range of Russian systems capable of targeting ground targets and especially benefits artillery systems. This article examines the evolution of the concept of the ROS and the progress towards its development but does not assess the problems and challenges its use encountered in the Russia-Ukraine War that began in February 2022.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"241 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Slavic Lives Matter: The Lack of Attention for the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict during the Second World War in German and Russian Historiography1","authors":"Alexander Gogun","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2287798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2287798","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For various reasons, the Polish-Ukrainian conflict of 1941–1942 has not received in-depth treatment in Russian and German historiography. Russians have little interest in the history of Poland and Ukraine, preferring to study either their own country or Western European countries; German historiography concentrates on studying the Holocaust and pogroms in this region.1 ‘Slavic Lives Matter. Nevnimaniye k pol’sko-ukrainskomu konfliktu v gody Vtoroy mirovoy voyny v nemetskoy i rossiyskoy istoriografii’, translated by Dr. Harold Orenstein. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author; they do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. The latter is explained by the fact that the Shoah [Hebrew for ‘catastrophe’, specifically used to refer to the Holocaust] occupies the central place in historical research in Germany; everything that is associated with it is of considerable interest. A second reason for the disproportionate attention presumably is the fact that the Ashkenazi (Jews whose ancestors are from Central and Eastern Europe) are a Germanic people — Yiddish is closely related to German, English, and Dutch. Accordingly, in the minds of researchers who are native speakers of these languages, what may subconsciously arise is a pattern of pogroms - ‘Slavs attack the Germans’, that is, ‘foreigners are attacking our people’ - and the associated emotions and desire to understand the issue. As for the Ukrainian-Polish conflict of 1943–1944, in Germany only and exclusively representatives of neo-Soviet historiography have written about this; they see Ukrainian nationalists as an absolute evil. However, they do not glorify the Polish Home Army, nor do they promote the idea of Polonophilia or victimization of the Poles, i.e., they attempt to create an illusion of objectivity, impartiality, and balance regarding this issue.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":"303 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine","authors":"Michael S. Coffey","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"323 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevskii, An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division (1941–1942)","authors":"Klemen Kocjančič","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2283957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2283957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"313 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geography of Genocide: Deportation and Mass Murder in Romanian-Occupied Territories during World War II","authors":"Emanuel-Marius Grec","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhile many scholars insist on the role that shootings had in the genocide of Jews of Eastern Europe, the ‘Holocaust by bullets’ continues to be a problematic theoretical model/concept, because it ruptures the link between organized/industrial mass murder, shootings, the usage of Jews for forced labor, and the means of deportation by local actors. In this article, I look at what deportation meant in the territories of the USSR occupied by Romania during World War II, both in administrative and military terms. More specifically, I try to map out the geography of murder and establish if there is a link between deportations from Romania proper into Transnistria and the deportations from inside Transnistria (e.g., Odesa) to other parts of the same region (e.g., Berezovka). As such, I look at the following questions: Why were some Jews from specific places in Romania’s Old Kingdom deported to Transnistria en masse, while other communities were not touched by the same wrath of deportation? Did local military leaders have a say in these decisions? How were deportations within Transnistria different from the ones that took place from Romania proper? Did the historical perceptions of these territories by local actors, perpetrators, and soldiers influence the course of deportations? In which way did massacres inform subsequent deportations? Using both historical examples like the Odesa Massacre and the deportations that followed it, as well as an analysis of ideology, antisemitism, and local actions in the regions of Northern Romania and Transnistria, I look at the way geography informs decisions of deportation and the relationship between ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.KEYWORDS: deportationTransnistriaRomanian armyOdessa Massacregeographyethnic cleansingHolocaust‘Holocaust by bullets’ Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 The spelling of army ranks is usually consistent with how they were used in the sources, including capitalization and wording.2 Witness statement by Luta T. Ion, USHMM RG-25.004M, Reel 27, folder 39181, vol. 10, f. 117–18. The witness declares that these events happened two days after the explosion of the Romanian command center in Odessa. It is possible that he conflates the events of all barracks being set on fire on those days, as executions and similar operations took place on the 24th, the 25th, and the 26th of October, on multiple occasions. See the Secret police report on the Odessa executions, burnings, and explosion in Dalnic, USHMM RG-25.004, Reel 27, folder 39181, vol. 10, f. 55–61. Also, see the earlier trial prosecution reports on these events, taken by public prosecutors dealing with the special law 312/1945, USHMM RG 25.004, reel 14, folder 4094, f. 39–40.3 Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Chicago: Ivan R Dee, 2000), p. 111. See also Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy: E","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}