Logic of War

This in an interview with Matthew Ford about the role of smartphones in modern warfare. Matthew is a researcher at the Swedish Defense University, and he has specialized in questions about how the smartphone enables new types of participatory warfare, where civilians play an active role in the warfighting through

Earlier in the week I published an edition of the paid newsletter where I discussed how important it is that we reflect carefully on the fact that American assistance to Ukraine was blocked in Congress for half a year. Many Europeans will undoubtedly be quick to assume that we are

I just published this video about the relationship between Russia, China, and Iran. The topic came up again this week, when many people started speculating that maybe Russia was behind the Iranian air strikes on Israel. I think many people get this relationship upside down, and that in reality it

Both sides in the war in Ukraine are increasingly focusing on strategic bombing as a tool to exhaust the adversary. In this video I look at Ukraine's attempt to weaken Russia by targeting their oil refineries. The goal is to make the Russian war economy collapse, and there

In this video I give a status on the land war and discuss the expected Russian summer offensive. There is a lot of talk about the danger of a Ukrainian collapse, but frankly I don't see the Russians making the necessary preparations to make that happen. It is

New video on YouTube, where I discuss why the recent terrorist attack in Moscow probably was not a false flag operation. But by playing into the false flag narrative, the supporters of Ukraine may inadvertently be helping Putin off the hook.

In this video I discuss the results from the presidential election in Russia. The interesting thing was not that Putin won – of course he would – but the numbers they announced. Putin took 87 percent of the votes, and all the other candidates got around four percent each. It was quite

New video where I look at the tools that Russia uses against the West in the information war, and where I explain why the same tools would not work the other way. Instead of resorting to trolls and misinformation, the west should focus on providing truthful and useful information that