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{"title":"Interpreting Russian aims to control the Black Sea region through naval geostrategy (Part Two): ‘Establishing full control over Southern Ukraine and the Donbas is one of the tasks of the Russian Army’","authors":"Tobias Kollakowski","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251306","url":null,"abstract":"This is the second article in a study examining the influence of naval geostrategy as a driver influencing Russian policy and military strategy in the Black Sea region. By the mid-2010s, Russia featured a much-improved geostrategic situation in the Black Sea theater as compared to the beginning of the century. Nevertheless, substantial weaknesses remained, some of which Russia has been able to neutralize during the conduct of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Following an examination of Russian military actions during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the author concludes that the application of military force by Russia in parts of Ukraine and the wider Black Sea region follows a long-term rationale and that Odesa and Mykolaiv, located at the western Black Sea littoral, remain core concerns for Russian military planners, despite the Russian military’s current defensive posture at most sections of the front in southern Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"40 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":"135717893","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":"God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World WarJeff Eden, <i>God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War</i> . (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021), ISBN: 13 978-0190076276, 272 pp.","authors":"Klemen Kocjancic","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"47 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":"135717898","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 Soviet Army’s High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992Richard W. Harrison, <i>The Soviet Army’s High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992</i> (Philadelphia &amp; Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2022), ISBN 978-1-952715-10-5, 452 pp.","authors":"Oleg Beyda","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251299","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Soviet Army’s High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992.\" The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 36(2), pp. 209–210","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"1 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":"135717896","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":"Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern PolandJoshua D. Zimmerman, <i>Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland</i> . (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), 623 pages; 8 maps and index. £34.95.","authors":"Evan McGilvray","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251303","url":null,"abstract":"\"Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland.\" The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 36(2), pp. 214–215","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"115 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":"135717899","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 British and Their Latvian SS Prisoners: Zedelgem 1945–1946","authors":"Bob Moore","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251301","url":null,"abstract":"The controversy over the memorial erected by the Belgian municipality of Zedelgem in 2018 to honor the Latvians held as prisoners of the British between 1945 and 1946 has shone a light on the increasing divergence between the Latvian nationalist narrative attached to its ‘freedom fighters’ and that espoused by the West. The purpose of this article is to examine the background of the Latvians’ presence in Belgium in the immediate postwar period, the problems their presence created, how they were treated by their British captors, and how they were ultimately dispersed into civilian life. Far from being the victims of indifference, the Latvians in SS uniforms, as well as their Baltic counterparts, were the beneficiaries of increasing early Cold War animosities and systematically protected by the British from Soviet demands for their repatriation, as this would amount to de facto recognition of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic States.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"10 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":"135717894","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":"Patterns of War: A Re-interpretation of the Chronology of the German-Soviet War 1941–1945","authors":"H.G.W. Davie","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251305","url":null,"abstract":"Most histories of the Soviet-German War 1941–1945 in English, German, and Russian, adopt a narrative framework based on the sequence of major battles, such as Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin. This approach portrays the war from a specific viewpoint reducing the importance of other fronts or secondary battles. Nevertheless, this study looks at an alternative narrative, the Soviet ‘canon of operations’, which was produced by the Military-Historical Department of the General Staff of the Red Army. This radically different account changes the viewpoint to a broad front war and alters our understanding of the issues facing the Soviet High Command and its resource management.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"1 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":"135717900","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 Good War for Economic Growth?","authors":"Bohuslav Pernica, Jaroslav Sixta","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWith the implementation of the UN’s System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008), an unusual impact of wars on economic growth emerged. The SNA 2008 enables nations to include the depreciation of military hardware in their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) calculations. Economic growth can be furthered not only by making extensive military investments in force modernization but donations of weapons and ammunition can also be factored into a nation’s national accounts. This research note presents how the SNA has affected the Czech Republic, a member of both the EU and NATO, which is a small-sized country that since 2022 has donated an extraordinary volume of second-hand hardware to Ukraine, which has contributed to the economic growth of Ukraine.KEYWORDS: System of National Accountsdepreciationmilitary aid AcknowledgmentsThis research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation in the project 22-25205S “Structural obstacles and opportunities for the cooperation and integration of post-communist EU member countries in European defense cooperation”. Authors are indebted to the Czech Ministry of Defence for data on military hardware.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 United Nations. The System of National Accounts 1993 (New York: United Nations 1993).2 Using the expenditure approach for the computation of GDP, GDP is the sum of consumption (C), investment (I), government expenditures (G), and net exports (X – M). Also, the effect of defense expenditure paid by the government (G) for imported (M) capital in the same year is neutral. (See P. Poast. The Economics of War ‎(New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2006) pp. 59–60.3 United Nations. The System of National Accounts 2008 (New York: United Nations 2008) p. 321.4 For example, defense expenditures on roads and railways have always been calculated into GDP as public investment. Newly, taxpayers’ money spent on weapons became public investment too.5 Eurostat. Essential SNA: Building the Basics (Brussels: Eurostat 2012).6 V. Kermiet and V. Rybáček. Implementace ESA 2010. Mimořádná revise národních účtů (předběžné výsledky) (Praha: Český statistický úřad 2014). https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/23193798/csu+tk+nu+prezentace.pdf/eaa13af7-837c-426f-93a2-c23af0294293.7 ‘Who is Doing Most to Help Ukraine Against Russia? America, Poland and Tiny Baltic States Stand Out.’ The Economist. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/10/12/who-is-doing-most-to-help-ukraine-against-russia (2022).8 ČTK. ‘Česko daruje Ukrajině desítky tisíc zbraní.’ České noviny. https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/cesko-daruje-ukrajine-desitky-tisic-zbrani/2168050 (2022).9 ČTK. ‘ČR poskytla Ukrajině vojenský materiál za 3,5 mld Kč, Chystá další dodávky.’ České noviny. https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/cr-poskytla-ukrajine-vojensky-material-za-3-5-mld-kc-chysta-dalsi-dodavky/2212682 (2022).10 ČTK. ‘První vrtulníky darované z USA by mohly přiletět do konce příštího roku.’ České nov","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"107 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":"135717895","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 Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front 1941-1945: War, Occupation, MemoryXosé M. Núnez Seixas, <i>The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front 1941-1945: War, Occupation, Memory</i> . (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), ISBN: 978-1-4875-4166-8.","authors":"Romedio Graf Thun","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2251308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2251308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"70 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":"135717897","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":"Steven J. Zaloga, Tanks In The Battle Of Germany 1945. Eastern Front","authors":"Romedio Graf Thun","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2207049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2207049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126588395","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":"War of Broken Fraternity: Competing Explanations for the Outbreak of War in Ukraine in 2014","authors":"Tobias Sæther","doi":"10.1080/13518046.2023.2201114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2023.2201114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article deals with the origins and drivers of war in Ukraine from 2013-14 and onwards. A review of academic literature shows that most studies employ one of four explanatory frameworks: 1) realism, 2) Russian hybrid war, 3) Ukrainian domestic conflict, and 4) internationalized domestic conflict. This article argues that current research too often forces evidence into preexisting framings. While assumptions inherited in the hybrid war framework limits our understanding of the war, this framework is most convincingly supported by evidence. Russia´s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 puts discussions about the drivers of war in Ukraine in a new light. This article invites to a reassessment of the war in Ukraine since 2014. We must recognize that, already from 2014, the war in Ukraine was a Russia-driven war, and only then can aspects from the various frameworks shed light on the specifics that are present in any inter-state war.","PeriodicalId":236132,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Slavic Military Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127765782","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}