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Russian Military Culture - Using Deception to Seize Decisive Advantage

June 9th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
via Cisco Webex Events

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Andrew Monaghan will be joined by Dima Adamsky and Michael Kofman to discuss his ongoing RSI sponsored research "Russian Military Culture: Using Deception to Seize Decisive Advantage." The discussion will examine a central feature of Russian military culture – military science and the search for decisive initiative in war.

Biographies 

 Andrew Monaghan
George F Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute
Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI
Non-Resident Associate Fellow, NATO Defense College

Andrew Monaghan is a George F Kennan Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. He is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Since 2006, Dr. Monaghan has served as the Director of the Russian Research Network Limited. He has held positions at Oxford University, at NATO, and at the Chatham House think tank in London. He has written extensively on Russian grand strategy, Russian domestic politics and the Russian way in war, and he is the author of several books, including Dealing with the Russians (2019). His latest, Russian Grand Strategy in an Era of Global Power Competition, is just published.

 Michael Kofman
Research Program Director, Russia Studies Program
Center 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.

 Dmitry Adamsky
Professor, School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy
Reichman University, Israel

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is a Professor at the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Reichman University, Israel. His research interests include international security, cultural approach to IR, and American, Russian and Israeli national security policies. His books Operation Kavkaz and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford UP) earned the annual (2006 and 2012) prizes for the best academic works on Israeli security. His last book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (Stanford UP) won the 2020 ISA best book award in the category of Religion and IR. His forthcoming books deal with cultural sources of the Russian art of coercion and with the role of political officers in the Russian military and society.

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