The Russia-Ukraine War – Security Lessons
An analysis informed by sociological approaches to risk management
©2025
Monographs
XXX,
268 Pages
Series:
Systems Thinking for Safety, Volume 2
Summary
As the Russia-Ukraine War sees its fourth year, this book provides a timely analysis of the successes and failures of Ukraine's campaign to expel Russian forces from sovereign Ukrainian territory. Lessons are drawn using sociological approaches to risk management such as systems-thinking, organising for high-reliability, latent and active error, mindfulness, groupthink, strategic empathy, passive and active learning, single and double-loop learning, isomorphic learning and active foresight. The aim of this book is to help Western nations improve their defences against, as former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak put it, 'An axis of authoritarian states with different values to ours'. Lessons range from the urgent need to improve the resilience of critical national infrastructure to the benefits of allowing front-line commanders greater decision-making freedom. If Western liberal democracy is to survive, the lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War must be actioned.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Theory, Methodology and Structure
- Chapter 2 First Lesson: Naivety Is a Consequential Latent Error
- Chapter 3 Second Lesson: Strategic Empathy Delivers Security
- Chapter 4 Third Lesson: Wars Are Won as Much on the Shop Floor as on the Battlefield
- Chapter 5 Fourth Lesson: In Total War, Homeland Resilience Matters
- Chapter 6 Fifth Lesson: Decoupling from Global Supply Chains Enhances Security
- Chapter 7 Sixth Lesson: Covert Operations Lift Morale When Victories are Scarce
- Chapter 8 Seventh Lesson: Remodelling a Defence Industrial Base and Military in Wartime Is Challenging
- Chapter 9 Eighth Lesson: Safeguarding Allies’ Interests Maintains Support
- Chapter 10 Ninth Lesson: In Warfare, Technophilia Is a Consequential Latent Error
- Conclusions
- Postscript
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Details
- Pages
- XXX, 268
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803744766
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803744773
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803744780
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21757
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (September)
- Keywords
- Active learning North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Lessons Tactics History Strategy Ukraine Russia Warfare Simon Bennett The Russia-Ukraine War - security lessons Actor-network theory Organising for high-reliability Systems-thinking Cross-organisational isomorphic learning Isomorphic learning Active foresight
- Published
- Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. xxx, 268 pp., 31 fig. b/w, 12 tables.
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- Peter Lang Group AG
