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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

And I don’t bloody care if the guy who got killed was the worst criminal ever we have laws we have rules you do NOT get to kill people in the street. JFC 🤬 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

The Siege of Mariupol - Pen and Sword Books The Siege of Mariupol details Ukraine’s heroic defense, civilian suffering, and Russian forces’ eventual capture.On 24 February 2022, the President of Ru...

If you’d like to review this, drop a message… Got this book in: The Siege of Mariupol: The Azovstal Steel Plant and Ukraine’s Battle for Survival by Christopher Lawrence and Stefan Korshak. www.penandswordbooks.com/978139903420...

was in a meeting recently and someone pitched making trailers with AI for a book and I cut them off and said absolutely not and they dropped it. not hard! do not use the tools of the enemy!

In fascist states, individual rights had no autonomous existence. The State of Law—the Rechtsstaat, the état de droit—vanished, along with the principles of due process by which citizens were guaranteed equitable treatment by courts and state agencies. A suspect acquitted in a German court of law could be rearrested by agents of the regime at the courthouse door and put in a concentration camp without any further legal procedure. A fascist regime could imprison, Deadpool, and even kill it's inhabitants at will and without limitation. All else pales before that radical transformation in the relation of citizens to public power.

Sure sounds familiar!

From Robert O. paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2004), p. 142.

JSMS Books for Review - PUBLIC Books that The Journal of Slavic Military Studies would welcome a review of. Reviews can look at a single book or spend additional length doing a more involved review essay on a couple texts (and othe...

As always, if you’re interested in reviewing for the journal, check out this list here and get in touch with the JSMS editors; have a book that should be reviewed, let us know as well...
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Putin's Wars The third edition of this acclaimed book offers a systematic analysis of Putin’s three wars, placing the Second Chechen War, the war with Georgia of 2008,…

And Associate Editor Michael Coffey looks at Putin’s Wars: The Rise of Russia’s New Imperialism, now in its third edition from Marcel H. Van Herpen, Rowman & Littlefield (now Bloomsbury)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/putins-wa...

The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to assess the operational performance of both sides during the first year of the full...

Stephen Satkiewicz looks at The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power, by Viktoriya Fedorchak, also from Routledge… get yourself a physical copy or an open access version!
www.routledge.com/The-Russia-U....

Warlord Hitler: With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942 This book is a study of Adolf Hitler in his role as military commander and strategist from the beginning of the Second World War until the end of 1942, examining in detail the campaign in southern Rus...

EIC Lak does double duty closing out the year, with a review of Warlord Hitler. With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942, by Alan Donhue, from Routledge www.routledge.com/Warlord-Hitl....

Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster - Casemate Publishers US “This book makes an important contribution to the history of the 20th century.” – International Journal of Intelligence and CounterintelligenceEleven y...

Romedio Graf Thun reviews Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster: From The Eastern Front in WW2 to Cold War CIA Asset, by Norman Ridley, from Pen & Sword @casematepublishers.bsky.social
www.casematepublishers.com/9781036113254/.

The Eastern Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in East...

And book reviews as well—Editor in Chief Martijn Lak reviews The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
by Nick Lloyd, Milton Keynes, from Viking
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194....

and the final article to close out this last issue of the year—"The Significance of Lend-Lease Food to the USSR in World War 2 – A Comparative Statistical Analysis” from David M. Suadicani...

"Labor Behavior and Adaptation Practices of Enterprise Workers during the Second World War (Using the Example of the Kazakh SSR),” by Roza Zharkynbayeva; got to hear this presented at CESS-ESCAS in Portugal and was quite an interesting panel...

"Logistics of the Front: The Power Behind Soviet Mobility,” from HGW Davie @hgwdavie.bsky.social…

"Blockbuster and The Armstrong-Bailey Recommendations: British Intelligence and Yugoslav Resistance,” by Chris Murray...

"The Home Army in Warsaw under the Germans, 1939-44: Growth, Structure, Dimensions,” by Matthew Olex-Szczytowski…

The Journal of Slavic Military Studies Volume 38, Issue 4 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies

Last issue of the year for JSMS has articles on WWII and antifascism and more… everything can be found here… www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...

And Ukraine wasn’t on a path to getting into NATO, as @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social and I argue in our new piece “NATO did not cause Putin’s imperial war” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“No other country has a president who slaps his own name onto famous landmarks he had absolutely nothing to do with. Nobody renamed the Eiffel Tower the Macron Tower. That level of ego simply does not exist anywhere else.“

This is, of course, nonsense; the problem is simply that when some people talk about the United States and say “no other country’s leader does this“, they are still thinking of other countries like France not Turkmenistan.

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The full collection of review articles can be found here in @josms.bsky.social ’s volume 38, issue 3 of 2025: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...

JSMS Books for Review - PUBLIC Books that The Journal of Slavic Military Studies would welcome a review of. Reviews can look at a single book or spend additional length doing a more involved review essay on a couple texts (and othe...

As always, if you are interested in writing for @josms.bsky.social check out our list here docs.google.com/document/d/1... but please reach out to an editor first to make sure something isn’t already in the works. An author or publisher with a recommendation, reach out too!

Spetsnaz In January 1951, Lieutenant Evgeniy Borisov was sent to the headquarters of the Soviet 5th Army in Spassk-Dalnii, a small city in the Russian Far East. Boris...

And finally, Nicolas Leixner looks at Spetsnaz: A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces, by Tor Bukkvoll. this work comes from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social, and a link here kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637911/

Alexander Hill reviews Britanskii soiuznik: organizatsiia voenno-ekonomicheskikh postavok v SSSR v 1941-1945 gg. Dokumental’noe issledovanie, by Irina Bystrova...

Lincoln Flake reviews On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare, Volume 2, from Marine Corps University Press...

The Red Army Towards the Oder: Then and Now, also via @casematepublishers.bsky.social (www.casematepublishers.com), along with Fallschirmjager in the Defense of the Oder 1945, from Helion & Company www.helion.co.uk...

Timothy Heck has a review essay: "Vistula-Oder Offensive (January-February 1945)” that covers The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front and The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group A, 1945, both from @casematepublishers.bsky.social...