Contributor Professor David Betz visits the podcast to talk about the future of warfare. Rather than pointing to novel information technologies as war’s driving force, David turns to techniques from the past, such as citadel and marching forts, arguing that drivers of future warfare at best is technological in origin only secondary, and that rather than tactics of maneuvering, tactics of fortification is key when looking at the future of warfare.

There seems to be something true to the logistics experts saying: “In peace time we talk about war, in war time, we talk about logistics.” One of the most read articles in our journal tries to elaborate on the failing logistics on the Russian side early in the war. Contributors Thomas Ekström and Per Skoglund are in the studio to discuss what is their take on how Russian logistics have evolved throughout the war, and how it might evolve in the future.

Lessons from the war in Ukraine indicate that in future emergencies a kind of cyber militia might be useful to have. But what is a cyber militia? How should it be governed? And what roles can it perform? Contributor Dan Jerker Svantesson is invited to the podcast, to talk about cyber defence post Russian aggression in Ukraine.