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The Eternal Return and Eastern Europe. The Geopolitical Tragedy that Never Ends. Part 4 of 4

The high intensity of geopolitical dynamics requires states to have a sophisticated toolkit of military instruments, including developing paramilitary and proxy military units to conduct a multilayered war. The proxies in Eastern Europe were perfect asymmetric instruments for achieving political and geopolitical goals. Still, often, they were symbols of the crisis of statehood in the countries where they operated or they caused existential threats, as in the case of Poland and Russia.

Sergei Korolev (1906-1966) is a legendary figure of the 21st century and is considered one of the “fathers” of space exploration. He was a Soviet scientist and designer of rocket and space systems. Elon Musk, the world’s most prominent space populariser and inventor, has frequently stated that Soviet/Russian space heritage has had a particular impact on his work.

Poland is the only country of the former Eastern bloc where no nuclear power plant was built. Although power units had been under construction in Żarnowiec since 1983, the decision of the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki stopped work on them in 1990 and real actions aimed at building nuclear power stations will start only now. However, it is worth considering how it happened that for so many years in the People’s Republic Poland (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, or PRL), no government managed to create Polish nuclear power plants.

“The Anxious Dream”- à rebours? A political plan for Poland’s victory and peace in the East. Part 1

The costs of designing, developing and producing weapons increase with the need to find a remedy for the enemy’s means of combating these weapons. And so the race between defence and attack is in full swing.

The New Generation Warfare (NGW) revolution is not only exclusively about warfare but is about the comprehensive revolution inside the entire military realm and in the supplementary sectors. In history, we have witnessed at least several NGW revolutions and every revolution had its own historical, social, and technological specificities.

The New Generation Warfare (NGW) revolution is not only exclusively about warfare but is about the comprehensive revolution inside the entire military realm and in the supplementary sectors. In history, we have witnessed at least several NGW revolutions and every revolution had its own historical, social, and technological specificities.

“Ministers come and ministers go, even dictators die, but mountain ranges stand unperturbed.” „Since the Red Sea parted for Moses and the sun obligingly paused for Joshua, the human will have been unable to recapture the control over topography and climate exhibited by those forceful gentlemen, and it is probably safe to say that it was by Russian geography rather than by men that the diminutive Corsican was finally defeated.” Nicholas Spykman, 1938

The New Generation Warfare (NGW) revolution is not only exclusively about warfare but is about the comprehensive revolution inside the entire military realm and in the supplementary sectors. In history, we have witnessed at least several NGW revolutions and every revolution had its own historical, social, and technological specificities.

The biblical story of David leads to several conclusions about the development of weapons and the nature of warfare. New breakthrough technology often feels less advanced than the old.

In the time of Goliath, it was clear and obvious that heavy bronze armour and an iron-tipped spear were the basis of a soldier’s strength.