The Source of Russian Brutality

The Source of Russian Brutality

Russia’s military operates on a Soviet, totalizing view of war that ignores distinctions between soldiers and civilians.

 

Ivan Arreguin-Toft, PhD (@imarreguintoft) is the author of How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict. He is a founding member of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at Oxford University’s Martin School, where he served as Associate Director of Dimension 1 (cybersecurity policy and strategy) from 2012 to 2015. He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

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