Presentation of Alexander Grapple – Kings College London  – Department of War Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXG6C52lQ0&t=9944s

This link “should” be bookmarked but if not the presentation runs from “2 hrs 47 minutes” to “3 hrs 15 minutes”.

The first two minutes of the presentation are unhearable because they forgot to turn his microphone on,

 

RUSSIA Seminar 2026

The Finnish National Defence University hosted the eight annual Russia Seminar on 11-12 February 2026 in Helsinki (Santahamina), Finland. The aim of this international seminar was to promote discussion on the Russian war against Ukraine and provide new knowledge on Russia’s military policy, military thinking and power. The main theme of the Russia Seminar 2026 was Russia’s War against Ukraine – Russia’s Future Military Development.

Programme from Riviera classroom 11 Feb 2026
0:00 Stream begins
16:10 Beginning of the discussion: Session 2.1. Narratives and instruments
17:18 Russia hybrid warfare: strategic use of agents of influence and resources in the pursuit of objectives Derkach, Oleksandr (Military Academy, Kyiv)
51:00 The Discursive Construction of Nuclear Coercion: An Analysis of Russian Strategic Narratives and Their Impact on Western Decision-Making – Fedoriienko Vitalii (NDU, Ukraine)
1:21:00 Who Is (Not) Deterred? The Operational Consequences of Conflating Deterrence and Compellence in Ukraine – Kurnyshova, Yuliia (Taras Shevchenka National University of Kyiv)
2:16:29 Session 2.2. Human Resources
Beyond Hardware: The ‘Human Factor’ in Russian Military-Strategic Thought – Nicolò Fasola & Camilla Valle (University of Bologna, Italy)
2:46:30 Irretrievable losses: Casualties in the Russo-Ukraine War – Alexander Grable (King’s College London)
3:14:57 Personnel shortages in Russia’s military industrial complex (OPK): assessing current education an employment strategies – Charlie Walker (University of Southampton, Britain)
4:45:17 Session 2.3. Military thought
4:45:55 Dialectics in Russian thinking about war and peace and why Russia perceives the world the way it does? – Heidi Pietilä & Konsta Taanila (Tampere University, Finland)
5:17:10 V.A. Makhonin – the methodological foundations of Russian military science – Engqvist Maria (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)
5:43:00 The significance of the war in Ukraine for Russian military thinking – Krisztian Jojart (Swedish Defense University, FHS