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Hello everyone,
Welcome to my sixth podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard! In this episode, I will be discussing a recent Eye on Eurasia Special Report written by guest contributor Tim Thomas. The report is entitled The Ukraine Battle Lab: Russian Adaptations to Contemporary War’s High-Tech Developments and you can find a copy of this report prominently displayed on my substack website.
For those of you who are not familiar with Tim Thomas, he is one of the leading American experts on the Russian military. Tim is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and analyst with more than 27 years of experience at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Tim is here today to discuss his recent report on how Russia has adapted to the war in Ukraine.
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Glen
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Hello everyone,
Welcome to my latest podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard! On September 26, it will be the two-year anniversary of the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosion, the strategic undersea gas pipeline in the Baltic that once delivered Russian gas to Germany.
Two years after the attack it remains a mystery as to who was behind this explosion with a lot of finger-pointing at both Russia and Ukraine. While the investigation is ongoing, new media reports have surfaced intensifying the controversy surrounding the attack.
Joining me to share new insight on the explosion is Dr. Benjamin Schmitt a former energy analyst at the US State Department who is one of the leading experts in the United States on Russian energy security. "Dr. Schmitt is currently a Senior Fellow with a joint academic appointment at the University of Pennsylvania in both the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. He is also an associate of the Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute and an affiliate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
In this podcast, Ben will be reviewing the mystery surrounding the Nordstream attack, having recently returned from a trip to the Baltic, where he conducted extensive field research, to get to the bottom of who blew up Nordstream II.
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Welcome to the fourth episode of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard. Events inside Russia’s Kursk province are now over a week old since the Ukrainian operations began on August 6th and Ukrainian military operations show no signs of slowing down as Ukrainian airborne forces continue their advances deeper into Kursk province.
To help us obtain deeper insight on these ongoing operations I am pleased to have retired Ukrainian Army General Volodymr Havrylov joining me to give a Ukrainian military perspective on the successes of these operations. General Havrylov will assess what Ukraine’s next steps might be as it enters uncharted waters. In addition,I am delighted to have former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Wesley Clark join me to share his impressions about the ongoing Ukrainian raid into Kursk and how it could change the course of the war.
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Hello everyone,
Buckle up! With Kursk still in the news and the Ukrainian offensive still in high gear, I decided to obtain a Russian perspective on the ongoing military actions inside Russia. In this podcast, I will be discussing the Russian reaction to Ukraine’s recent Kursk offensive and how Russian President Vladimir Putin is handling the crisis.
Now over a week old the Russian government has been quite slow to react to the offensive as Ukrainian forces advance deeper into Russia’s Kursk province. Kyiv is now claiming it has seized 1,000 kilometers of Russian territory.
On August 14, another 6 villages fell to advancing Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been extremely slow to respond to the invasion calling Russian operations to evict the Ukrainian force from Kursk “a counter-terrorist operation to eradicate the Nazi Banderites.”
Kursk carries great historical significance in the Soviet Union’s vast mythology built around this battle fought 81 years ago this month which was one of the largest tank battles of the Second World War and certainly a major turning point in world history.
Military and security experts around the world continue to closely watch how President Putin handles this crisis which comes on the heels of the ill-fated 2023 Prigozin mutiny, now over a year old.
Joining me to discuss these events in Russia will be Dr. Pavel Luzin a well-known Russian expert who is a Visiting Scholar in the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University.
Pavel will be assessing the Russian reaction to the crisis and how President Putin is handling the ongoing Ukrainian offensive and the triumvirate of power he has given to the host of Russian officials assigned to deal with the crisis.
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At long last American-made F-16s have appeared above the skies of Ukraine as many Ukrainians have anticipated their delivery, hoping these fourth-generation aircraft will be a game changer in the war. While F16s are vastly superior weapons compared to the older Soviet MiG29s, one of the key questions about the arrival of F16s is what their impact will be on the conflict and whether Ukrainian pilots will be able to master their advanced weaponry in a way that Kyiv can use these aircraft to defend its airspace and help turn the tide in the war. Joining me for this discussion is former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Philip M. Breedlove, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Nunn School of Government at Georgia Tech University and a frequent commentator on the war in Ukraine.
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Hello everyone,
Welcome to my inaugural podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard. In this episode, I discuss the recent July 27 attack on Russia’s Wagner forces in Mali by the al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM militant group. The attack caused an estimated 82 Russian deaths and certainly ranks as one of the worst defeats for Putin’s Afrika Korps since Wagner mercenaries began operating in Africa.
No two experts are better qualified to discuss this topic than Jacob Zenn and Sergey Sukhankin. Jacob Zenn ranks as one of the leading experts in the world on African militant movements and insurgencies. In 2020 he wrote a groundbreaking book on the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram entitled Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria. Sergey Sukhankin is equally qualified due to his extensive writings on Wagner’s overseas operations not just in Africa but other parts of the world. In 2020 he published a landmark study entitled War by Other Means: Russia’s Use of Private Military Contractors at Home and Abroad.
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