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Examining the Bolsheviks effort in 1920 to make Poland the bridge over which communism would pass to Berlin and points west, General Mikhail Tuchaczevsky perceived a frontal assault in the Brest – Warsaw Operational Direction as key to fixing Polish forces in defense of the capital, while an encirclement operation directed between the Narew and Bug Rivers would cross the Vistula River from the north and destroy the Polish Army when attacking from the northwest.

In the second part of the podcast that compliments this week’s S&F Hero article, dr. Phillip Petersen and Strategy&Future’s founder and CEO Jacek Bartosiak continue their conversation on military art and the Polish war theater in the context of a hypothetical conflict with Russia.

Przenieśmy się jednak na chwilę do czasów szczęśliwszych, przynajmniej z punktu widzenia USA. Jest początek roku 1991, za mniej niż rok Związek Sowiecki przestanie istnieć. O Chinach nikt nie myśli w kontekście równorzędnego rywala Stanów, mają dopiero stać się tanim zapleczem produkcyjnym dla USA i reszty świata zachodniego.

Książka zatytułowana War Plan Orange Edwarda S. Millera dotyczy wielu lat przygotowań amerykańskich do wojny z Japonią na Pacyfiku.

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

When Radek Pyffel moved to Guangzhou as a student in 1999 – almost exactly fifty years after the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China by Mao Zedong in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – he was surprised to see so many skyscrapers on the taxi ride from the airport to the university.

In this S&F podcast Thomas Riley sits down for a chat with Radek Pyffel, a former advisor for AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) and a current plenipotentiary of the Board for Asian markets at Poland’s cargo railway operator PKP Cargo.

Latem 1914 roku europejski świat zmienił się na zawsze. Dotyczy to szczególnie Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej. Sierpień tego roku był początkiem końca europejskich imperiów kontynentalnych i w nieodległej przyszłości dał narodom pomostu bałtycko-czarnomorskiego szansę na niepodległość.

The summer of 1914 changed the European world forever. In particular in Central and Eastern Europe. August 1914 marked the beginning of the end of the European continental empires and in the near future gave the nations of the Baltic-Black Sea Bridge a chance for independence.

Nagranie wprowadzające do rozmowy z dr. Phillipem A. Petersenem o sztuce wojennej i polskim teatrze wojny.

Over the past several years, primarily since Russia’s 2014 aggression against Ukraine, Western military experts have expressed concern over what was originally referred to as the “Suwałki Gap” most likely so as to draw out poorly understood lessons of the Cold War in yet another misleading analogy to the “Fulda Gap.”

In an another S&F Hero podcast CEO and Founder of Strategy and Future Jacek Bartosiak sits down with dr. Phillip Petersen – a veteran of the Cold War, retired DIA analyst, and an authority in the military art and strategy.