Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War (Russian Strategy and Power) - Hardcover

Monaghan, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526164515 ISBN 13: 9781526164513

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2025

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A cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.

Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of ‘hybrid’ warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war, such as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But as the invasion of Ukraine has brutally demonstrated, conventional armed violence remains a key element of Russian power.

In Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war, Andrew Monaghan offers a high-level view of Russian thinking about warfare. Drawing on extensive Russian sources, he addresses important questions that have been overlooked by most Western commentators: what is the military leadership’s distinctive idea of twenty-first-century blitzkrieg? How does it understand holistic territorial defence? How does it manage the shifting balance between offence and defence?

Introducing key concepts from Russian military thinking, Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war is a crucial resource for understanding Russia’s resurgent role on the global stage and the devastating threat the country poses to the international order.

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Andrew Monaghan is Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House

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‘A compelling, sophisticated guide to Russian ways of war.’
Andrew Lambert, author of The British Way of War

‘Monaghan takes his deep knowledge and intellectual firepower to decades of half-truths and buzzwords.’
Patrick Porter, author of How to Survive a Hostile World

‘Every officer in every NATO member state should read this.’
Beatrice Heuser, author of Flawed Strategy

Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of ‘hybrid’ warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war, such as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But as the invasion of Ukraine has brutally demonstrated, conventional armed violence remains a key element of Russian power.

In Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war, Andrew Monaghan offers a high-level view of Russian thinking about warfare. Drawing on extensive Russian sources, he addresses important questions that have been overlooked by most Western commentators: what is the military leadership’s distinctive idea of twenty-first-century blitzkrieg? How does it understand holistic territorial defence? How does it manage the shifting balance between offence and defence?

Introducing key concepts from Russian military thinking, Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war is a crucial resource for understanding Russia’s resurgent role on the global stage and the devastating threat the country poses to the international order.

Andrew Monaghan is Director of AM Leadmark Research Ltd. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C., a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and a Senior Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome.

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• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1526164515
• ISBN 13: 9781526164513
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
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