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Weekend Update #49: You might not be interested in War, but War is interested in You.

Weekend Update #49: You might not be interested in War, but War is interested in You.

The Middle East and the Russo-Ukraine War; Duelling narratives over the counteroffensive, Podcast update

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Hello All,

For much of my career, full conventional war was something that received very little discussion as a possible phenomena. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the military dominance that the USA showed in Desert Storm (the First Iraq War), meant that any large scale conventional war would have to not involve the USA (if the USA was involved, it…

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