In this Issue

Table of Contents

From the Editor

Nataliya Bugayova
pp. 7-12
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Russia's War in Ukraine: Two Decisive Factors

Gilbert W. Merkx
pp. 13-33
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Russia's Nuclear Strategy: Changes or Continuities

Arushi Singh
pp. 34-48
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Enemy at the Gates: A Strategic Cultural Analysis of Russian Approaches to Conflict in the Information Domain

Nicholas H. Vidal
pp. 49-76
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Revisiting the Global Posture Review: A New U.S. Approach to European Defense and NATO in a Post-Ukraine War World

Maxwell Stewart USMC
pp. 77-87
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The Ethical Character of Russia's Offensive Cyber Operations in Ukraine: Testing the Principle of Double Effect

Ian A. Clark USN
pp. 88-101
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The Cold War Computer Arms Race

Bryan Leese
pp. 102-120
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The Devil's Advocate: An Argument for Moldova and Ukraine to Seize Transnistria

Anthony Roney II
pp. 121-150
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Tackling Russian Gray Zone Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era

Ryan Burkholder
pp. 151-173
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Plan Z: Reassessing Security-Based Accounts of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Alex Hughes
pp. 174-208
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The Russian Bloodletting Strategy in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: From Success to Hubris

Spyridon N. Litsas
pp. 209-226
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Substitute to War: Questioning the Efficacy of Sanctions on Russia

Brent Lawniczak
pp. 227-245
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Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front by Michael A. Hunzeker (review)

Don Thieme
pp. 247-249
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Intelligence in the National Security Enterprise: An Introduction by Roger Z. George (review)

James A. Bowden
pp. 249-253
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The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront by Jason Warner et al. (review)

Whitney Grespin
pp. 253-255
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Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior by Beth Bailey et al. (review)

Joel Blaxland
pp. 255-257
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Power & Complacency: American Survival in an Age of International Competition by Phillip T. Lohaus (review)

Mark A. Capansky Jr.
pp. 257-260
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Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia: Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century by Gulnar T. Kendirbai (review)

Victoria Clement
pp. 260-262
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The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Anthony King (review)

Gillis Kersting
pp. 262-264
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The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen and Greg Mills (review)

Robert D. Billard Jr., USMC
pp. 264-267
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The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy by Loch K. Johnson (review)

Anthony Marcum
pp. 267-270
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To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision by Admiral James Stavridis (review)

Richard A. McConnell USA (Ret)
pp. 270-272
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The Trillion Dollar War: The U.S. Effort to Rebuild Afghanistan, 1999–2021 by Abid Amiri (review)

Sangit Sarita Dwivedi
pp. 272-274
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