Publications

Selected books, peer-reviewed articles, reports and monographs on Russian military strategy, Central Asian security and related topics.

2020s

Article2023Peer Reviewed

The Technological Transformation of Russian Conventional Fires

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3

Report2023

An Assessment of the Initial Period of War: Russia-Ukraine 2022, Part 1 & 2

Co-author(s): Charles K. Bartles

FMSO (Released by RSI EUCOM)

Report2021

The Rise of Russia's Military Robots: Theory, Practice and Implications

Co-author(s): Sten Allik, Sean F. Fahey, Tomas Jermalavičius, Konrad Muzyka

International Centre for Defense and Security, Tallinn

Article2020Peer Reviewed

The Russian Military Decision-Making Process & Automated Command and Control

Co-author(s): Charles K. Bartles

German Institute for Defense and Security Studies, Hamburg

Article2020Peer Reviewed

Russia's Impact on Nuclear Policy in China: Cooperative Trends and Depth of Influence

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1–46

2010s

Article2019

Moscow's Perspectives on the Evolution of US Stealth Technology

Co-author(s): Guy Plopsky

Wavell Room

Article2018Peer Reviewed

Tools of Future Wars — Russia is Entering the Precision-Strike Regime

Co-author(s): Tor Bukkvoll

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2

Book Chapter2018Peer Reviewed

Deciphering Russia's Armed Forces' Lessons Learned in Ukraine, 2014–17

Jamestown Book on Russia's Military

Report2017

Russia's Electronic Warfare Capabilities to 2025: Challenging NATO in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

ICDS, Tallinn

Report2017

Russia in the Precision-Strike Regime — Military Theory, Procurement and Operational Impact

Co-author(s): Tor Bukkvoll

FFI, Oslo

Article2016Peer Reviewed

Putin and the Nuclear Dimension to Russian Strategy

Co-author(s): Stephen J. Cimbala

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4

Article2016Peer Reviewed

Does Russia Have a Gerasimov Doctrine?

Parameters, U.S. Army War College Journal, Summer 2016

Book Chapter2016

Brothers Disunited: Russia's Use of Military Power in Ukraine

Return of the Cold War. Ukraine, the West, and Russia, Routledge: London (Eds. J.L. Black & Michael Johns)

Report2015

Russia's Strategic Mobility and its Military Deployment in Syria

FOI Swedish Defence Ministry, RUFS Briefing

Report2015

Threat Perception in Central Asia in Response to Russia-Ukraine: Kazakhstan Will not be Next

Co-author(s): Zhulduz Baizakova

NATO Defence College, Rome

Monograph2015

Reassessing the Barriers to Islamic Radicalization in Kazakhstan

Co-author(s): Zhulduz Baizakova

SSI, US Army War College

Report2015

Brothers Disunited: Russia's Use of Military Power in Ukraine

FMSO, Fort Leavenworth

Article2015Peer Reviewed

A New Cold War? Missile Defenses, Nuclear Arms Reductions and Cyber War

Co-author(s): Stephen J. Cimbala

Comparative Strategy

Book Chapter2015

NATO's Role and Options in Post-Revolution Ukraine

Co-author(s): Heidi Reisinger, Brooke Smith-Windsor

NATO's Response to Hybrid Warfare, NATO Defence College, Rome

Article2014Peer Reviewed

Russia's Military Operation in Crimea: Road-Testing Rapid Reaction Capabilities

Co-author(s): Charles K. Bartles

Journal of Problems of Post-Communism

Book2014Peer Reviewed

Editor — The Transformation of Russia's Armed Forces: Twenty Lost Years

Routledge: London

Article2014

The Brain of the Russian Army: Futuristic Visions Tethered by the Past

Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Special Issue, guest editor)

Report2014

NATO's Role and Options in Post-Revolution Ukraine

Co-author(s): Heidi Reisinger, Brooke Smith-Windsor

NATO Defence College, Rome

Article2013

Neighbourhood Watch — Russia's Response to Insecurity in Central Asia

Co-author(s): Zhulduz Baizakova

Jane's Intelligence Review

Monograph2013

Central Asian Security Post-2014: Perspectives in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

Monograph2013

Russia's Strategic Mobility: Supporting 'Hard Power' to 2020?

FOI: Stockholm

Book Chapter2013

The Kremlin's Future Priorities in Harnessing Hard Power: Beyond the 'Tandem' and 'New Look'

Russia after 2012: Continuity Change, or Revolution? Routledge: London

Article2013

Touching the Void — Security Vacuum Issues in Central Asia

Jane's Intelligence Review

Monograph2012

Kazakhstan-Russia: Enduring Eurasian Defence Partners

Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

Report2012

Kazakhstan's 2011 Military Doctrine: Reassessing Regional and International Security

FMSO, Fort Leavenworth

Article2012Peer Reviewed

Kazakhstan's Perspectives on the SCO's Impact on Central Asian Security

Problems of Post-Communism

Book Chapter2012

Renovating The Red Star: Transforming Russia's Hard Power

Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales, Paris

Book2011Peer Reviewed

Co-editor — The Russian Armed Forces in Transition: Economic, Geopolitical and Institutional Uncertainties

Co-author(s): Bertil Nygren, Carolina Vendil Pallin

Routledge: London

Book Chapter2011

Network Centric Warfare As the Undeclared Aim of Russian Defense Reform: Russian Perspectives and Challenges

The Russian Armed Forces in Transition, Routledge: London

Book Chapter2011

Russia's Conventional Armed Forces, Reform and Nuclear Posture to 2020

Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present and Future, SSI, US Army War College (Ed. Stephen J. Blank)

Report2011

Kazakhstan-Russia Axis Shapes CSTO Transformation

FMSO, Fort Leavenworth

Article2011

Vigilant Eagle: Kazakhstan's Assistance to ISAF

PfP Connections, Summer 2011

Report2011

Russia's Conventional Military Weakness and Substrategic Nuclear Policy

FMSO, Fort Leavenworth

Article2010Peer Reviewed

General Shamanov and the Russian Airborne Forces

Journal of Slavic Military Studies

Article2010

L'émergence stratégique chinoise intentionnelle ou accidentelle? (China's Strategic Growth Sustainment: Accidental Leader?)

Co-author(s): Frederic Labarre, Colonel Zdzislaw Sliwa

Revue Défense Nationale

Report2010

Russian Perspective on Network-Centric Warfare: The Key Aim of Serdyukov's Reform

FMSO, Fort Leavenworth

Article2010Peer Reviewed

Chaplains, Political Officers and the Russian Armed Forces

Co-author(s): Dale Herspring

Problems of Post-Communism

Article2010Peer Reviewed

Serdyukov Promotes Systemic Russian Military Reform

Co-author(s): Dale Herspring

Orbis, Spring 2010

2000s

Article2009Peer Reviewed

The Restructuring of the Modern Russian Army

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 22 (4)

Article2009

A Foreign View of Russian Military Reform

Novaya Gazeta

Article2009

Air Power and the Russian-Georgian Conflict of 2008: Lessons Learned and Russian Military Reforms

Co-author(s): Stephane Lefebvre

RAF Airpower Review, Vol. 22, No. 1

Article2009Peer Reviewed

Russia's Conventional Armed Forces and the Georgian War

Parameters, U.S. Army War College Journal, Spring 2009

Article2009

Medvedev Overplays the 'Military Card' to Impress Obama

Co-author(s): Dale Herspring

Strategic Insights, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey

Report2009

Russia's Armed Forces: The Power of Illusion

Russie Nei Visions, IFRI, Paris

Article2009Peer Reviewed

Intelligence Aspects of the 2008 Conflict Between Russia and Georgia

Co-author(s): Stephane Lefebvre

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 22, 1

Article2008

Multilateral Security Cooperation in Central Asia

Co-author(s): Yury Morozov

Central Asia and the Caucasus (Sweden), 6

Article2008

United States and NATO Military Cooperation with Kazakhstan: The Need for a New Approach

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 21, 4

Article2008

Russia and the Intelligence Services of Central Asia

Co-author(s): Stephane Lefebvre

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 21, 2

Article2008

GUAM-NATO Relations: Russia's Perspective on the Strategic Balance in the South Caucasus

Co-author(s): Yury Morozov

Central Asia and the Caucasus (Sweden), Spring 2008

Report2007

The Rising Dragon: SCO's Peace Mission 2007

Occasional Paper, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC

Article2007

Kazakhstan's Partnership With NATO: Strengths, Limits and Prognosis

The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1

Book2006

Responding to Terrorism and Other New Threats and Challenges in Central Asia and Afghanistan (Editor)

Royal Institute for International Affairs, London

Article2005

Border Security in Kazakhstan: Threats, Policies and Future Challenges

Co-author(s): Sergey Gulonov

Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1

Report2004

Stability in the South Caucasus: the Role of NATO

Co-author(s): Svante Cornell, William D. O'Malley, Vladimir Socor, S. Frederick Starr

Central Asia Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC

Article2004

Миротворческая деятельность Казахстана в Ираке

Co-author(s): Col. Igor Mukhamedov

Bagdar, Almaty

Monograph2004

Defeating Global Terrorism: Developing the Antiterrorist Capabilities of the Central Asian States

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Article2003

The Russian Air Force in Central Asia: the Deployment of the VVS to Kyrgyzstan

Co-author(s): William D. O'Malley

Air Power Review, RAF, Winter 2003

Article2003

Kyrgyzstan's Security Tightrope: Balancing its Relations With Moscow and Washington

Co-author(s): William D. O'Malley

FMSO / Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 16, 3

Book2003Peer Reviewed

Co-editor — Russian Military Reform, 1992–2002

Co-author(s): Anne C. Aldis

Frank Cass: London

Book Chapter2003

Putin's Military Priorities: the Modernization of Russia's Armed Forces

Russian Military Reform, 1992–2002, Frank Cass: London

Article2003

Uzbekistan-US: Partners Against Terrorism

Co-author(s): Farkhad Tolipov

Review of International Affairs, Vol. 2, 4

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