Roger N. McDermott, FRHistS
Russian Military Strategy & War Analysis
Specialist in Russian military strategy, military thought, doctrine, operations and military history. Senior Fellow at The Saratoga Foundation and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Featured Work
A.A. Svechin — The Art of Regimental Command: Lessons From World War I
Translated and edited. Originally published 1930. McFarland & Co.
Read →Escalation Management à la Russe: The Kremlin's Threat Assessment, Forecasting, and Conflict Control Tools
The Saratoga Foundation, funded by Russia Strategic Initiative, US EUCOM.
Read →Russia Enters the High-Tech Battlespace
The Jamestown Foundation: Washington DC. Peer reviewed.
Read →Specialist Areas
Russian Military Strategy
- Military thought & doctrine
- Operations & force structure
- Defence reform & modernisation
- Electronic warfare & precision-strike
- Unmanned systems & emerging technology
War in Ukraine
- Russia–Ukraine conflict analysis (2014–present)
- Initial period of war assessment
- Lessons learned & military adaptation
- Proxy warfare to full-scale invasion
- Unmanned systems & new force structures
Central Asia & Security
- Regional military cooperation
- Kazakhstan defence & foreign policy
- CSTO transformation
- Post-Soviet security architecture
- Counter-radicalisation & stability
Affiliations & Roles
Current Positions
Senior Fellow
The Saratoga Foundation
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Department of War Studies, King's College London
Research Associate
Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS), University of St. Andrews
Visiting Lecturer, Russian Military Strategy
Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr
Visiting Lecturer, Russian Military Strategy & Military History
Estonian Military Academy (Kaitseväe Akadeemia)
Assistant Editor
Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Memberships & Boards
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Member, British Commission for Military History
Member, Editorial Board — Central Asia and the Caucasus
Member, Scientific Board — Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
Former Positions
Former Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies
Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC
Former Non-Resident Research Fellow
International Centre for Defence and Security, Tallinn
Former Non-Resident Expert
National Centre for Strategic Studies, Warsaw
Former Advisory Scholar: Military Affairs
Center for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations (CRCR), Georgian College Ontario, Canada