{"id":709635,"date":"2026-10-27T00:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=709635"},"modified":"2026-10-27T00:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:50:37","slug":"irretrievable-losses-and-casualties-from-the-russia-ukraine-war-alexander-grapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=709635","title":{"rendered":"Irretrievable Losses and Casualties from the Russia\/Ukraine War – Alexander Grapple (RUSSIA Seminar 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presentation of Alexander Grapple –\u00a0Kings College London\u00a0 – Department of War Studies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ArXG6C52lQ0&t=9944s<\/a><\/p>\n

This link “should” be bookmarked but if not the presentation runs from “2 hrs 47 minutes” to “3 hrs 15 minutes”.<\/p>\n

The first two minutes of the presentation are unhearable<\/em> because they forgot to turn his microphone on,<\/p>\n

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RUSSIA Seminar 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s War against Ukraine \u2013 Russia’s Future Military Development.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Programme from Riviera classroom 11 Feb 2026
\n0:00 Stream begins
\n16:10 Beginning of the discussion: Session 2.1. Narratives and instruments
\n17:18 Russia hybrid warfare: strategic use of agents of influence and resources in the pursuit of objectives Derkach, Oleksandr (Military Academy, Kyiv)
\n51:00 The Discursive Construction of Nuclear Coercion: An Analysis of Russian Strategic Narratives and Their Impact on Western Decision-Making – Fedoriienko Vitalii (NDU, Ukraine)
\n1:21:00 Who Is (Not) Deterred? The Operational Consequences of Conflating Deterrence and Compellence in Ukraine – Kurnyshova, Yuliia (Taras Shevchenka National University of Kyiv)
\n2:16:29 Session 2.2. Human Resources
\nBeyond Hardware: The \u2018Human Factor\u2019 in Russian Military-Strategic Thought – Nicol\u00f2 Fasola & Camilla Valle (University of Bologna, Italy)
\n2:46:30 Irretrievable losses: Casualties in the Russo-Ukraine War – Alexander Grable (King\u2019s College London)
\n3:14:57 Personnel shortages in Russia\u2019s military industrial complex (OPK): assessing current education an employment strategies – Charlie Walker (University of Southampton, Britain)
\n4:45:17 Session 2.3. Military thought
\n4:45:55 Dialectics in Russian thinking about war and peace and why Russia perceives the world the way it does? – Heidi Pietil\u00e4 & Konsta Taanila (Tampere University, Finland)
\n5:17:10 V.A. Makhonin – the methodological foundations of Russian military science – Engqvist Maria (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)
\n5:43:00 The significance of the war in Ukraine for Russian military thinking – Krisztian Jojart (Swedish Defense University, FHS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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