Informative Combat of the Russian Hybrid War

The Great War, the Russian Civil War, and the invention of big science.

The revolutionary transformation in Russian science toward the Soviet model of research started even before the revolution of 1917. It was triggered by the crisis of World War I, in response to which Russian academics proposed radical changes in the goals and infrastructure of the country's scientific effort. Their drafts envisioned the recognition of science as a profession separate from teach...

The psychological costs of war: military combat and mental health.

We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in overseas deployment assignment to estimate the effect of combat exposure on psychological well-being. Controlling for pre-deployment mental health, we find that active-duty soldiers deployed to combat zones are more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than their counterparts deployed outside the United States in non-combat zone...

The Russian Military and the Georgia War: Lessons and Implications

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Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Combat Psychiatry : Lessons from the War in Southwest Asia

The war in Southwest AsUz (SWA) was the Army's first opportunity since Vietnam to provide mental health services to a large deployed combat force. Despite the low number of combat stress casualties, information from corps and division levels suggests deficiencies in the Army's ability to provide wartime mental health support. Based on observations, interviews and written data, and from direct e...