War In Ukraine (Paperback)
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Editorial: Jim Stovall, 2026
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Paperback. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Most people couldn't find it on a map before February 2022.Four years later, it is the place where the shape of the twenty-first century is being decided - where a new kind of warfare is being invented under fire, where the credibility of the Western alliance is being tested in real time, where the lessons of the Cold War are being learned again at catastrophic human cost, and where a country of forty-four million people is holding its own against one of the largest military powers on earth.War in Ukraine: Seven Things You Should Know About the War So Far is not a news update. It is an explanation - of the geography, the history, the military revolution, and the strategic lessons that the headlines assume you already understand.The seven things: The geography nobody taught you. Ukraine sits at the center of the European plain, bordered by four NATO members to the west and more than a thousand miles of Russian border to the east. The geography that made this conflict likely has not changed. It is worth understanding.This is not the first time. The full-scale invasion of 2022 was not the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine. It was the escalation of a conflict that had been running since 2014 - and of tensions that go back decades further than that.Drones changed everything. A three-hundred-dollar drone destroying a three-million-dollar tank is not a footnote. It is the central military fact of the war. Ukraine has demonstrated a revolution in warfare that every military in the world is now scrambling to absorb.Why Europe forgot how to fight. Thirty years of the peace dividend left European militaries underfunded, underequipped, and institutionally unprepared for large-scale conventional warfare. The bill is now being presented.What NATO actually is. NATO is not an army. Article 5 is not a guarantee of specific military action. The alliance has never been tested by a large-scale attack on a member state. Understanding what it actually is - and isn't - matters more right now than it has in decades.The innovation loop. Ukraine entered the war with no significant drone industry and has become, four years later, a global leader in drone warfare technology. The feedback cycle between frontline soldiers and civilian engineers that made this possible is one of the most important military developments of the century.What this teaches the next war. The transparent battlefield, the return of industrial mass, the limits of alliances, the failure of the Budapest Memorandum - the lessons being absorbed right now by military planners in Washington, Beijing, and Brussels will shape the next generation of warfare.Written for the curious reader who wants to understand what is happening, not just follow what is happening. No prior knowledge required.Part of the I'm No Expert, But series. Curious, a little lost, and taking notes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Título
- War In Ukraine (Paperback)
- Autor
- Jim Stovall
- Editorial
- Jim Stovall
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798235664944
- Serie
- Libro 12 de 48: I'M NO EXPERT, BUT:
Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Most people couldn't find it on a map before February 2022.
Four years later, it is the place where the shape of the twenty-first century is being decided - where a new kind of warfare is being invented under fire, where the credibility of the Western alliance is being tested in real time, where the lessons of the Cold War are being learned again at catastrophic human cost, and where a country of forty-four million people is holding its own against one of the largest military powers on earth.
War in Ukraine: Seven Things You Should Know About the War So Far is not a news update. It is an explanation - of the geography, the history, the military revolution, and the strategic lessons that the headlines assume you already understand.
The seven things:
- The geography nobody taught you. Ukraine sits at the center of the European plain, bordered by four NATO members to the west and more than a thousand miles of Russian border to the east. The geography that made this conflict likely has not changed. It is worth understanding.
- This is not the first time. The full-scale invasion of 2022 was not the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine. It was the escalation of a conflict that had been running since 2014 - and of tensions that go back decades further than that.
- Drones changed everything. A three-hundred-dollar drone destroying a three-million-dollar tank is not a footnote. It is the central military fact of the war. Ukraine has demonstrated a revolution in warfare that every military in the world is now scrambling to absorb.
- Why Europe forgot how to fight. Thirty years of the peace dividend left European militaries underfunded, underequipped, and institutionally unprepared for large-scale conventional warfare. The bill is now being presented.
- What NATO actually is. NATO is not an army. Article 5 is not a guarantee of specific military action. The alliance has never been tested by a large-scale attack on a member state. Understanding what it actually is - and isn't - matters more right now than it has in decades.
- The innovation loop. Ukraine entered the war with no significant drone industry and has become, four years later, a global leader in drone warfare technology. The feedback cycle between frontline soldiers and civilian engineers that made this possible is one of the most important military developments of the century.
- What this teaches the next war. The transparent battlefield, the return of industrial mass, the limits of alliances, the failure of the Budapest Memorandum - the lessons being absorbed right now by military planners in Washington, Beijing, and Brussels will shape the next generation of warfare.
Written for the curious reader who wants to understand what is happening, not just follow what is happening. No prior knowledge required.
Part of the I'm No Expert, But series. Curious, a little lost, and taking notes.
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