Survival: April - May 2023

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

In this issue:

• Franz-Stefan Gady and Michael Kofman assess that Ukraine will not be able to avoid attrition in its military strategy against Russia

• Nigel Gould-Davies assesses that Vladimir Putin’s priority has shifted from demobilising the population from politics to mobilising it behind the war

• Bastian Giegerich and Ben Schreer judge that Germany still requires significant changes to its defence and foreign policies for Zeitenwende to be meaningful

• Lynn Kuok believes that framing great-power competition as an ideological struggle is counterproductive to the United States’ partnerships in the Asia-Pacific

• Adam Mount observes that a fixation on nuclear assurance is harming the military alliance between the United States and South Korea

And seven more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.

Editor: Dr Dana Allin

Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson

Associate Editor: Carolyn West

Editorial Assistant: Charlie Zawadzki

Contributor: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (Edited by)

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