Strategy&Future

“Russia doesn’t need Ukraine as an independent country. They need our resources. Now the scenario is repeated. Russian dictator Putin planned to take away Ukraine’s minerals in order to enrich themselves and gain influence around the world.” National Association of Mining Industry of Ukraine

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Phil Petersen and Greg Melcher of New Generation Warfare Centre on the war in Ukraine, nuclear escalation and roll-over of equipment.

At the beginning of the 21st century, two main geopolitical visions were formed in the European Union.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has predictably fixed a substantial proportion of the Russian Armed Forces. Russian forces are not fighting as battalion tactical groups (BTGs), but this remains the manner in which both the Russians [1] and the Ukrainians [2] are administratively assigning troop movements. As such, this overview will use this denominator as well, though again the evidence from the war suggests that the primary unit of tactical engagement will not be the BTG per se.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Phillip Karber on the war in

In addition to Putin’s two declared goals in Ukraine, “denazification” and “demilitarisation,” we should think about adding a third, which is to deprive the country of access to any source of traditional energy like coal, hydro, thermal, or nuclear power stations, most of which are stationed in Eastern and Central Ukraine. A special component of Moscow’s strategy appears to be to gain control over the nuclear plants, uranium deposits, and to destroy the infrastructure enabling Ukraine to restore nuclear weapons.

Jacek Bartosiak and Nicholas Myers discuss the war in Ukraine, situation as of morning 18 March 2022.

On the night of February 23rd to 24th, 2022, everything seemed to be going as Putin had planned. At the same time, the course of events was the nightmare of Halford Mackinder’s worst dreams. Mackinder was the Nestor of world geopolitics, a faithful son of the sea of Albion (then a sea hegemon) and (more than 100 years ago) the creator of the most famous geopolitical maxim: “Whoever rules East Europe commands the Heartland; whoever rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; whoever rules the World-Island commands the World.” To speak in the language of the 21st century, whoever controls Eurasia has the greatest agency over the rules on which the world operates and sets the rules for key strategic flows between its regions and exchanges between states.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Arda Mevlütoğlu on the war in Ukraine.

Jacek Bartosiak, Nicholas Myers and Albert Świdziński in a discussion on whether the war in Ukraine has validated the Poland’s New Model Army Concept.

Ukraine is resisting Russian aggression. Ukraine and the Ukrainian people have lost their territories, infrastructure, military material but it still holds its soul, pride, and zealously resists. It is visible from all levels of Ukrainian society, from the President of Ukraine, the Government of Ukraine and many MPs, the governors of the Ukrainian regions that are in place and present in their positions despite the massive attacks and bombardments.

Jacek Bartosiak and Phillip Karber talk about war in Ukraine as of 4 March 2022.