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Mike Kofman will host a panel to discuss early observations from the current conflict in Ukraine on the Russian way of war. Panelists will include Charles Bartles, Johan Norberg, and Justin Bronk. The discussion will explore Russian military doctrine and capabilities and compare the current execution in the conflict in Ukraine to how we would expect Russia to fight in a large scale war with NATO.
Biographies
Michael KofmanResearch Program Director, Russia Studies ProgramCenter for Naval Analyses (CNA)
Michael Kofman serves as a Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at CNA and as a Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the Russia and the former Soviet Union, specializing in Russian armed forces, military thought, capabilities, and strategy. Previously, he served as a Program Manager and subject matter expert at National Defense University, advising senior military and government officials on issues in Russia and Eurasia. Mr. Kofman is also a Senior Editor at War on the Rocks, where he regularly authors articles on strategy, the Russian military, Russian decision-making, and related foreign policy issues. He runs a personal blog on the Russian armed forces at https://russianmilitaryanalysis.wordpress.com/
Mr. Kofman has published numerous articles on the Russian armed forces, security issues in Russia/Eurasia, and analyses for the US government. He holds an MA in International Security from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Charles BartlesAnalyst and Russian LinguistForeign Military Studies Office
Charles Bartles is an analyst and Russian linguist at the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His research areas include Russian and Central Asian military force structure, tactics, modernization, and Soviet/Russian military mapping. Chuck is also a Major in the US Army Reserve that has deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and has served as a security assistance officer at embassies in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. He is the co-author of the book The Russian Way of War: Force Structure, Tactics, and the Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces (Mentor, 2017).
Johan NorbergEurasia Fellow, Foreign Policy Research InstituteSenior Military Analyst, Sweden’s Defense Research Agency (FOI)
Johan Norberg is a Eurasia Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is one of the world’s leading experts on Russian military affairs. He is also Senior Military Analyst at Sweden’s Defense Research Agency (FOI), where he has worked for 24 years, examining developments in the Russian Armed Forces. He has previously worked at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and in the Swedish Parliament as well as served in Peace Support Operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia and the Middle East. His recent authored and co-authored publications include: “Russian Military Capability in a Ten-Year Perspective” (2019); “Security in Central Asia” (2019); “Security in the Caucasus: Russian Policy and Military Posture” (2018); “Russian Military Capability in a Ten-Year Perspective” (2016); “Training to Fight: Russia’s Major Military Exercises 2011-2014” (2015); “The Crimea Operation: Implications for Future Russian Military Intervention” (2014); “Russia and Ukraine: Military-Strategic Options and Possible Risks for Moscow (2014); “The Use of Russia’s Military in the Crimean Crisis” (2014). Norberg has also served as visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. He can be contacted at Johan.Norberg@foi.se.
Justin BronkResearch Fellow for Airpower and TechnologyRUSI
Justin Bronk is the Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at RUSI. He is also Editor of the RUSI Defence Systems online journal.
Justin's particular areas of expertise include the modern combat air environment, Russian and Chinese ground-based air defences and fast jet capabilities, unmanned combat aerial vehicles and novel weapons technology. He has written extensively for RUSI and a variety of external publications, as well as appearing regularly in the international media.
Justin is a part-time doctoral candidate at the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London and holds an MSc in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA (Hons) in History from York University.