Strategy&Future

Davor Marijan “STORM” (2010)

This is the first major attempt in Ukraine since the events of 2014 to address the phenomenon of the Intermarium. It undertakes a deep intellectual reflection about the place of Ukraine in this developing geopolitical project.

“Sooner or later all roads lead east.”

Lithuania. A unique place in Polish cultural awareness.

The Zbrucz. For most contemporary Poles it is a mysterious name, unknown, probably irrelevant.

The big problem – and a drawback – of Western analyses of contemporary China is that we mostly duplicate ourselves, repeat our own Western ideas, which are often burdened with a Cold War mentality or – more often – anti-communist prejudices.

Edward S. Miller’s ‘War Plan Orange’ (1991) concerns many years of American preparations for the war with Japan in the Pacific.

This book, written by an intelligence officer of the imperial Japanese fleet – Kinoaki Matsuo – was published in Boston right after the attack on Pearl Harbour under the English title ‘How Japan Plans To Win’. However the first and original publication took place in October 1940, i.e. a year before the outbreak of the American-Japanese War.

Józef Mackiewicz is not a well-known figure amongst the Polish people. We don’t talk about his books or argue about his views; his works cannot be found in the tightly-controlled canon of set texts which every school student has to study; there is no talk of on-screen adaptations.