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Feb 20, 2022 · Western leaders said Russia was following a “playbook of deception” to justify an invasion of Ukraine, amid intensifying clashes in the east of the country between Ukrainian forces and...
- Philip Georgiadis
Nov 9, 2022 · Russia’s war in Ukraine is being fought with the blunt force of artillery bombardments, airstrikes and infantry assaults. But it is also a battle of wits — waged between generals sending ...
Aug 4, 2022 · Russia hopes to degrade the morale of the Ukrainian resistance and deflate European support for a war that cannot be won, while the US wants to shore up Ukrainian and European enthusiasm for a...
- Marwan Bishara
Russia has proven vulnerable to deception during the Ukraine war. Ukraine has used decoys, cellphone data, and a range of other ploys to ensnare Russian troops. Problems with Russia's...
May 28, 2024 · The reasons for Russia’s attack on Ukraine have become a much-debated topic. In this introductory article to this special issue, we identify three types of explanations that focus, respectively, on (1) Putin’s imperial ambitions, (2) domestic factors inside Russia, and (3) external pressures.
6 days ago · Putin’s rhetoric deliberately aims to present Russia’s aggression in Ukraine as an existential war for Russia’s sovereignty, and Putin likely invoked the possibility of lowering the threshold for nuclear weapon use to imply that he reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if his forces are decisively defeated on the frontlines in order to deter Ukraine’s allies from reaching a common ...
Sep 8, 2022 · Such deception operations raise the issue of whether Ukraine is committing acts of perfidy prohibited by the law of armed conflict or conducting lawful ruses long permitted in war. This post provides a brief overview of how the law of armed conflict regulates military deception and explains why Ukraine’s use of mannequins and decoys is lawful.
