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Jacek Bartosiak talks to Gen. (ret.) Phil Breedlove, Vice Chief USAF, Commander US EUCOM & SACEUR, on what is needed for Ukrainian victory in war.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Julian Lindley-French on war in Ukraine and future of Europe.

For a long time, the Turkic World formed a continuous historical and cultural space from China to Europe without the capacity to be a real geopolitical player in Eurasia, but under the leadership of Turkey, the Turkic World is today shaping a new geopolitical reality in Eurasia.

Jacek Bartosiak and Albert Świdziński of S&F – View From Poland: World in Turmoil, part 1 (January 2023).

This part of the series is a record of conclusions and observations resulting directly from conversations with the participants of this war — soldiers and officers.

Despite receiving enormous military, economic, social, and financial assistance from the West, the Ukrainian economy and social situation is going to deteriorate. If we see a continuation of the war for the next half a year and the Kremlin decides to continue its systematic attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure as part of its winter military operations, there is a great danger that Ukraine is going to join the group of disaster zones that have appeared in Syria, Yemen and Libya as a result of the geopolitical confrontation between East and West. If the situation with electricity does not stabilize in the near future, the greatest humanitarian crisis in Europe since 1945 might be inevitable.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Velina Tchakarova on the rift in Europe over war in Ukraine.

Oleksij Arestowicz in his recent conversations, including one with me, has started talking about the need to build a military alliance between Ukraine and Poland. Moreover, he actually started talking about a broader alliance, almost a union of the bloc of states between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, that would hold back Russia and secure the new security architecture. What is it about, how should it be understood?

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Jan van Tol from CSBA on the lessons learned in Ukraine for evolution of the battlefield. Captain van Tol served as special adviser in the Office of the Vice President. He was a military assistant to Andrew W. Marshall, the Secretary of Defense’s Principal Advisor for Net Assessment, from 1993-96 and again from 2001-2003. At sea, he commanded three warships, two of which, the USS O’Brien (DD-975) and the USS Essex (LHD-2), were part of the U.S. Navy’s Forward Deployed Naval Forces based in Japan. Captain van Tol’s analytic work has focused mainly on long-range strategic planning, naval warfare, military innovation, and wargaming.

Ukraine and Russia are facing a completely new stage in the escalation of hostilities. The war is gradually changing its shape, form and perspective. It has become more aggressive and unpredictable – towards total war with total mobilisation of the entire economy, society and technological power of the belligerent states and their global allies. One of the realistic scenarios which will implement the whole belligerence of a fight between two sides is the possible upcoming battle of Kherson.

In February this year, war broke out in the east. Russia attacked Ukraine. A certain stage in the history of our region and in the history of the world has come to an end. For years, we have been talking and writing here at Strategy&Future about the need to prepare for new times, and to prepare for the reform of the Polish military. These new times have come. Today – part three about lessons from the war, for Poland and for our military.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to John R. Deni from US Army War College on the observation from the battlefield in Ukraine. Dr. John R. Deni is a Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University’s School of International Service.