Dmitry Stefanovich

STRATDELA #38 Still kicking

Let's roll: Fresh STRATDELA issue!

1dkv.substack.com/p/stratdela-38

🚨 Delighted to share that I’ve just signed with Oxford University Press to write my next book: looking at how ideas about Western civilisation shape (and are shaped by) the design and use of military technology.

STRATDELA #38 Still kicking

Let's roll: Fresh STRATDELA issue!

1dkv.substack.com/p/stratdela-38

Latest STRATDELA issue deployed, everyone. Enjoy.

My friends from CENESS are launching a great webinar series on Russia's Nuclear Policy.

#NukeSky

STRATDELA #37 Summer's End

Link: open.substack.com/pub/1dkv/p/s...

...and a direct link to the registration form: forms.yandex.com/u/68a809aaf4...

More details here: ceness-russia.org/news/?&pg_no...

My friends from CENESS are launching a great webinar series on Russia's Nuclear Policy.

#NukeSky

Latest STRATDELA issue deployed, everyone. Enjoy.

STRATDELA Special #16 Intermediate-range missiles for everyone, and may no one be left behind.

I can imagine that some folks dislike Substack, so just in case: medium.com/p/2ac369e89b43

Trump and Putin are flexing their way toward a nuclear stand-off "Rhetoric sometimes turns into action in unpredictable ways," a former senior U.S. arms control official told Newsweek.

Contributed to this @newsweek.com piece: www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-...

What Will Follow Russia’s Exit from Moratorium on INF Deployment In early August, an official statement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs put an end to yet another potentially useful arms control instrument: the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of...

Some broader thoughts on Post-INF Post-Moratorium by yours truly: russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics...

I think that's wrong Sahil, but still thanks for kind words! :)

Opinion | Here’s the Big Deal Trump and Putin Could Actually Reach in Alaska A Ukraine peace deal seems out of reach, but a nuclear arms deal is not.

Excellent new analysis. Practical steps that these two leaders can actually take. None of them would diminish their power. All of them would make the world safer. By @sahilshah.bsky.social and @dvsteff.bsky.social. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

STRATDELA Special #16 Intermediate-range missiles for everyone, and may no one be left behind.

I can imagine that some folks dislike Substack, so just in case: medium.com/p/2ac369e89b43

STRATDELA Special #16 Intermediate-range missiles for everyone, and may no one be left behind.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/1dkv/p/s...

Posting this for no apparent reason.

The latest STRATDELA Special deployed to your mailboxes. You might guess the topic.

STRATDELA Special #16 Intermediate-range missiles for everyone, and may no one be left behind.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/1dkv/p/s...

The latest STRATDELA Special deployed to your mailboxes. You might guess the topic.

Trump and Putin are flexing their way toward a nuclear stand-off "Rhetoric sometimes turns into action in unpredictable ways," a former senior U.S. arms control official told Newsweek.

Contributed to this @newsweek.com piece: www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-...

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

Bastion coastal missile system launcher is one beautiful beast.

Photos by Lex Kitaev from the July Storm Russian Navy exercise at the Kaliningrad region.

Haven’t been on much.

Not easy these days.

@dvsteff.bsky.social is one of my favorite people - was fortunate to meet him a few months ago.

Hope this thread makes folks calmer.

He also has an amazing gif game and a brilliant sense of American cartoons.

Thank you for kind words!

NORTHERN TERRITORY, Australia — The 3d Multi-Domain Task Force deploys the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon System to Northern Territory, Australia, July 9, 2025, to participate in Exercise Talisman Sabre 25. The exercise is a bilateral training event hosted by Australia in partnership with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, with multinational participation. Talisman Sabre 25 marks the first operational employment of the Dark Eagle west of the International Date Line and outside the continental United States. Talisman Sabre is the largest bilateral military exercise between Australia and the United States, strengthening interoperability and partnership through combined training and operations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Perla Alfaro)

The U.S. Army 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force deployed a Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system outside of the continental United States for the first time, deploying it to the Northern Territory, Australia in support of Talisman Sabre 25 on July 9, 2025.
www.dvidshub.net/news/544614/...

Tom Lehrer found matter worth roasting everywhere he looked America’s best modern satirist died on July 26th, aged 97

Until reading our obituary, I didn’t know that Tom Lehrer had worked at the NSA for two years in the 1950s. Why did we never get the great cryptology pastiche? www.economist.com/obituary/202...

Nukes to deter threats to my allies. Nukes to deter threats to my ego.

Murka sleeps instead of shitposting.

Be like Murka.