View source for RSI Connect: Russian Command & Control, Part 1

'''Date:''' March 8th at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EDT  
'''Platform:''' Cisco Webex Events  

=== Link to Video Recording ===
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=== Details ===
RSI will host a two-part Project Connect series that will offer a comprehensive look at various aspects of Russian command and control practices in national security affairs. The first session will occur on 8 March 2023 with Katarzyna Zysk, Andrew Monaghan, Oscar Jonsson, and moderated by Dima Adamsky. The second session will follow the next day, 9 March 2023.

The panelists will examine Russian C2 on various levels of command (i.e., from grand strategy to military operations); will discuss its soft aspects (i.e., combat management culture, procedures, and personnel policies); and hard dimensions (i.e., C2 organization on different echelons, technologies, and systems supporting them).

The speakers will analyze the performance of Russian C2 towards, during, and following the war in Ukraine. Participants will reflect on how change and continuity in all of the above aspects condition current and prospective Russian art of statecraft, strategy, and operations in conventional and nuclear realms. Speakers will critically assess tensions, contradictions, strengths, and weaknesses of Russian C2.

=== Biographies ===

==== Katarzyna Zysk ====
[[File:Photo_Katarzyna_Zysk.jpg|thumb|200px|Katarzyna Zysk]]  
'''Title:''' Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History  
'''Affiliation:''' Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) / Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC)  

Katarzyna Zysk is Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)/Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) in Oslo (since 2007). At the IFS, she also served as Deputy Director, Head of Centre for Security Policy, and Director of Research, as well as Acting Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College.

She was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre at the University of Oxford, and Research Fellow at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College. Currently, she is Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris and serves also as Core Group Member of the Russia Transatlantic Forum at the Center for a New American Security; Advisory Board Member of the Transatlantic Deterrence Dialogue Initiative; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States; and Governing Board Member of the European Initiative for Security Studies.

Following her 2006 PhD thesis on NATO enlargement, her research has focused on security, defense, and strategic studies, including Russia’s armed forces, military strategy and doctrines, nuclear strategy, the Russian Navy, maritime security and geopolitics in the Arctic, as well as defense innovation and disruptive technologies. Her published research has appeared in ''SAIS Review of International Affairs'', ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'', ''Journal of Strategic Studies'', ''Asia Policy'', ''RUSI Journal'', ''Politique Etrangère'', ''International Relations'', ''Jane’s Navy International'', ''War on the Rocks'', and others, including in books published by Cambridge and Oxford University Presses.

Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue of the ''Journal of Strategic Studies'': ''Defence Innovation and the 4th Industrial Revolution: Security Challenges, Emerging Technologies, and National Responses'' (2021), where she also contributed an article on Russian EDT strategies.

==== Andrew Monaghan ====
[[File:Photo_Andrew_Monaghan.jpg|thumb|200px|Andrew Monaghan]]  
'''Title:''' George F Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute  
'''Affiliations:''' Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI; Non-Resident Associate Fellow, NATO Defense College  

Andrew Monaghan is a George F Kennan Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. He is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Since 2006, Dr. Monaghan has served as the Director of the Russian Research Network Limited. He has held positions at Oxford University, at NATO, and at the Chatham House think tank in London. He has written extensively on Russian grand strategy, Russian domestic politics, and the Russian way in war, and he is the author of several books, including ''Dealing with the Russians'' (2019). His latest, ''Russian Grand Strategy in an Era of Global Power Competition,'' is just published.

==== Oscar Jonsson ====
[[File:Photo_Oscar_Jonsson.jpg|thumb|200px|Oscar Jonsson]]  
'''Title:''' Founder & CEO, Phronesis Analysis  
'''Affiliation:''' Researcher, Swedish Defence University  

Dr. Oscar Jonsson is founder and CEO for Phronesis Analysis and researcher at Swedish Defence University. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He has earlier been Director of the Center for the Governance of Change and Stockholm Free World Forum, as well as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and a subject-matter expert at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters where he worked with hybrid warfare, Russian strategy, and long-term planning.

Oscar has advised governments, armed forces’ leadership, and financial institutions on strategic affairs and geopolitical risk, and featured in international print and broadcast media. Oscar is the author of ''The Russian Understanding of War'' (Georgetown University Press).

==== Moderator: Dima Adamsky ====
[[File:Photo_Dima_Adamsky.jpg|thumb|200px|Dima Adamsky]]  
'''Title:''' Professor, School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy  
'''Affiliation:''' Reichman University, Israel  

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is a Professor at the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Reichman University, Israel. His research interests include international security, cultural approach to IR, and American, Russian, and Israeli national security policies. His books ''Operation Kavkaz'' and ''The Culture of Military Innovation'' (Stanford UP) earned the annual (2006 and 2012) prizes for the best academic works on Israeli security. His last book ''Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy'' (Stanford UP) won the 2020 ISA best book award in the category of Religion and IR. His forthcoming books deal with cultural sources of the Russian art of coercion and with the role of political officers in the Russian military and society.