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War Studies University

The War Studies University (WSU) is the highest level academy for the Polish Armed Forces, which educates students and conducts scientific research especially for the needs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland. The WSU also educates civilians in the field of national defence and prepares them to work i.e. in the Parliament as well as national and local administration.
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• December 31, 2023 Measuring economic resilience for the CEE and Black Sea countries in the framework of comprehensive defense
  By: Maria Constantinescu
• December 31, 2023 NATO's Strategic Concept: Implications for Greece and Türkiye
  By: Nikolaos Lampas
• December 31, 2023 Net spills among NATO allies: Theory and empirical evidence from dynamic quantile connectedness
  By: Panagiotis Palaios, Anna Triantafillou, George Andrew Zombanakis
• December 31, 2023 Conventional and Hybrid Actions in the Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
  By: Craisor-Constantin Ionita
• December 31, 2023 Introduction to Special Issue on Navigating NATO dynamics: Addressing various challenges in the international security environment
  By: Bert Chapman, Jarosław Gryz, George Andrew Zombanakis
• September 30, 2023 Leadership in police work applied to critical contexts: An integrative review and scientific mapping using VOSviewer and Google Trends tools
  By: Lucius Paulo de Carvalho, Ana Paula Grillo Rodrigues, Marcello Beckert Zappellini
• September 30, 2023 Logistics outsourcing for armed forces: The mobilisation of civilian transportation vehicles
  By: Nebojsa V. Nikolic
• September 30, 2023 Implications of the war in Ukraine for the strategic communication system of the Polish Ministry of National Defence
  By: Agnieszka Glapiak
• September 30, 2023 Integrating Earth observation IMINT with OSINT data to create added-value multisource intelligence information: A case study of the Ukraine–Russia war
  By: Ioannis Kotaridis, Georgios Benekos
• June 30, 2023 Conclusions from the use of aviation in the first half of the first year of the Ukrainian-Russian war
  By: Sylwester Lubiejewski
• June 30, 2023 Defensive lawfare and deterrence: Analysis of Latvia’s approach to legal bases in the context of hybrid warfare (2014-2022)
  By: Valerijs Bodnieks
• June 30, 2023 Systemic Operational Design – a study in failed concept
  By: Łukasz Przybyło
• June 30, 2023 Unknown gunmen and insecurity in Nigeria: Dancing on the brink of state fragility
  By: Tope Shola Akinyetun, Victor Chukwugekwu Ebonine, Iyase Osariyekemwen Ambrose
• June 30, 2023 Trojan spoofing: A threat to critical infrastructure
  By: Tegg Westbrook
• March 31, 2023 The changing face of Russia’s information war against Ukraine and other democratic countries: Lessons and recommendations. Interview with Professor Sinan Aral
  By: Sinan Aral
• March 31, 2023 The attack-reconnaissance squadron as a new formula and a new quality of the attack helicopter squadron of the Polish Armed Forces
  By: Sylwester Lubiejewski
• March 31, 2023 The Zangezur corridor as part of the global transport route (against the backdrop of power games in the South Caucasus region)
  By: Piotr Gawliczek, Khayal Iskandarov
• March 31, 2023 Managing the financial impact of cybersecurity incidents
  By: Zsolt Bederna, Tamás Szádeczky
• March 31, 2023 Defence expenditure and public debt in Greece: A non-linear relationship
  By: Ioanna Bardakas, Dimitris Doulos, George Andrew Zombanakis
• December 31, 2022 The evolution of the Hungarian Defence Forces’ volunteer reserve component after the Cold War
  By: László Ujházy
• December 31, 2022 The role of citizens and geoinformation in providing alerts and crisis information to the public
  By: Fatime Balog, Tibor Babos
• December 31, 2022 Economic coercion as a means of hybrid warfare: The South Caucasus as a focal point
  By: Khayal Iskandarov, Piotr Gawliczek
• December 31, 2022 Analysis of strategic stakeholders in the Western Balkans
  By: Michael Minev Dimitrov
• December 31, 2022 High power wireless power transfer for the future of the battlefield challenges
  By: Mohamed Zied Chaari, Rashid Al-Rahimi, Otman Aghzout
• December 31, 2022 The cost of appeasement
  By: Larry P. Goodson
• September 30, 2022 Flood vulnerability of the critical infrastructure in Poland
  By: Antoni Morawski
• September 30, 2022 Proposed method for building an anti-drone system for the protection of facilities important for state security
  By: Jędrzej Łukasiewicz
• September 30, 2022 Protection of Polish critical infrastructure (CI) against air threats
  By: Michał Piekarski, Karolina Wojtasik
• September 30, 2022 Institutional corruption as the bane of critical infrastructure protection in Nigeria
  By: Obinna Ukaeje
• September 30, 2022 Protection of critical infrastructure in Norway – factors, actors and systems
  By: Jakub M. Godzimirski
• September 30, 2022 Intelligent terrorism as a security threat to critical infrastructure
  By: Ossi Heino
• September 30, 2022 Preparing critical infrastructure for the future: Lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic
  By: Amelia Tomalska
• September 30, 2022 Abstraction-decomposition space for critical infrastructure systems: A framework for infrastructure planning and resilience policies
  By: Stig Rune Sellevåg
• June 30, 2022 Critical factors influencing the development of Singapore’s defense industry
  By: Donatas Palavenis
• June 30, 2022 Multi-dimensional assessment of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
  By: Andrius Bivainis
• June 30, 2022 Genocide, ethical imperatives and the strategic significance of asymmetric power: India’s diplomatic and military interventions in the Bangladesh Liberation War (Indo-Pakistan War of 1971)
  By: Rudrajit Bose
• June 30, 2022 An evaluation of anti-terrorism laws in Pakistan: Lessons from the past and challenges for the future
  By: Ayesha Jawad
• June 30, 2022 Preparing youth for defence: Socialisation, education, and training of young people in Europe for national security
  By: Ilona Urych, Grzegorz Matysiak
• March 31, 2022 A concept approach to use of the EU-SENSE system in exercises based on the Kolb's learning cycle
  By: Magdalena Gikiewicz
• March 31, 2022 Improved detection of chemical threats by sensor data fusion
  By: Norbert Ludwig Kopp, Helge Koch-Eschweiler
• March 31, 2022 COVID-19 Implications for China's National Security
  By: Marta Gębska
• March 31, 2022 Bureaucratic policy and defense cooperation among the Baltic states
  By: Olevs Nikers, Otto Tabuns
• March 31, 2022 The performance of the Portuguese Armed Forces and the relevance of military capabilities in 21st century: The different perspectives of citizens and militaries
  By: Paulo Jorge Gomes
• March 31, 2022 From geopolitical anomie to a syncretic metamodel of the Greater Black Sea Region – “Five Sea Region”
  By: Alexander Rusetsky
• December 31, 2021 The roaming threats: The security dimension of Almajiris’ mobility in Nigeria and its implications for Africa’s regional security
  By: Oluwasola Festus Obisesan
• December 31, 2021 Intrastate cultural and socio-political influences and the realisation of national security: A two-level correlational analysis
  By: Dimitrios G. Pantazis
• December 31, 2021 Mediating effect of Indonesia’s public trust on national security from the sense of safety, knowledge, and willingness to participate in state defence efforts
  By: Dadang Mas Bakar, Syamsunasir, Agus Adriyanto
• December 31, 2021 Modelling computer networks for further security research
  By: Zsolt Bederna, Tamás Szádeczky
• December 31, 2021 Assessing the cost of friction between NATO allies
  By: Odysseus Katsaitis, George Andrew Zombanakis
• December 31, 2021 Military-protester relations: Insights from nonviolence research
  By: Brian Martin
• September 30, 2021 Turkey and Russia in Syrian war: Hostile friendship
  By: Cemil Doğaç İpek, Mehmet Çağatay Güler
• September 30, 2021 Disinformation as a threat to national security on the example of the COVID-19 pandemics
  By: Wojciech Łukasz Sługocki, Bogdan Sowa
• September 30, 2021 The Balkan Kettle: Russia’s policy towards the Balkans
  By: Bogusław Jagiełło
• September 30, 2021 Effects of botnets – a human-organisational approach
  By: Zsolt Bederna, Tamás Szádeczky
• September 30, 2021 Bargaining power and U.S. military aid in the post-cold war era
  By: Yu Wang
• June 30, 2021 Assessments and foreign policy implications of the national security of the Republic of Serbia
  By: Miroslav Mitrovic
• June 30, 2021 High power microwave for knocking out programmable suicide drones
  By: Mohamed Zied Chaari
• June 30, 2021 Defence diplomatic relations between Poland and China and how they can be improved
  By: Lech Drab
• June 30, 2021 Non-violent civil resistance against military force: The experience of Lithuania in 1991
  By: Audrone Petrauskaite
• June 30, 2021 Possible applications of GIS tools in order to prepare for drinking water distribution network emergencies
  By: Endre Salamon, Tamás Papp, Zoltán Goda
• March 31, 2021 Simulation framework for practical cybersecurity training in the public service sector
  By: Veronika Deák
• March 31, 2021 Thoughts on the evolution of national security in cyberspace
  By: Imre Dobák
• March 31, 2021 Assisting Syrian refugees in Turkey: International approaches and domestic policies
  By: Sára Gibárti
• March 31, 2021 Mechanisms for providing cybersecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives for Ukraine
  By: Oleksandr Karpenko, Aleksander Kuczabski, Vitalii Havryliak
• March 31, 2021 Ecological threats to security and state resilience in Afghanistan
  By: Markus Gauster
• March 23, 2021 Lawfare as part of hybrid wars: The experience of Ukraine in conflict with Russian Federation
  By: Zakhar Tropin
• December 31, 2020 The New Institutionalism: A tool for analysing defence and security institutions
  By: Valerijs Bodnieks
• December 31, 2020 Assessment of the effectiveness of the security features of personal wireless networks
  By: Janusz Gierszewski, Michał Matuśkiewicz
• December 31, 2020 COVID-19 as a prestige-promoting mechanism: PESCO framework as an opportunity for EU member states
  By: Valerijs Bodnieks, Sintija Broka
• December 31, 2020 Fitness OSINT: Identifying and tracking military and security personnel with fitness applications for intelligence gathering purposes
  By: Cyprian Aleksander Kozera
• December 31, 2020 Testing the efficiency of laser technology to destroy the rogue drones
  By: Mohamed Zied Chaari, Somaya Al-Maadeed
• December 31, 2020 The Hellenic air – space violations by Turkish aircraft: A statistical assessment and a forecast
  By: Vasileios Symeonidis, George Andrew Zombanakis
• December 31, 2020 Operational control over non-state proxies
  By: Filip Bryjka
• December 31, 2020 “Sweat is invisible in the rain”: Civilian Joint Task Force and counter-insurgency in Borno State, Nigeria
  By: Seun Bamidele
• December 31, 2020 Countering terrorism in the shadows: The role of private security and military companies
  By: Iveta Hlouchova
• December 31, 2020 Turkey’s approach to proxy war in the Middle East and North Africa
  By: Engin Yüksel
• December 31, 2020 FARC–Hezbollah: The success of Venezuela–Iran proxy groups and their convergence in the Americas
  By: Jeferson Guarin P.
• December 31, 2020 The Securitisation of Hybrid Warfare through Practices within the Iran-Israel conflict – Israel’s practices for securitising Hezbollah’s Proxy War
  By: Christian Kaunert, Ori Wertman
• December 31, 2020 Game of Proxies – Towards a new model of warfare: Experiences from the CAR, Libya, Mali, Syria, and Ukraine
  By: Cyprian Aleksander Kozera, Paweł Bernat, Cüneyt Gürer, Błażej Popławski, Mehmet Alper Sözer
• December 31, 2020 Towards a structural understanding of powerbrokers in weak states: From militias to alliances
  By: Sascha Bruchmann
• December 31, 2020 Changing the character of proxy warfare and its consequences for geopolitical relationships
  By: Zoran Ivanov
• December 31, 2020 Outsourcing warfare: Proxy forces in contemporary armed conflicts
  By: James K. Wither
• September 30, 2020 Family as a fundamental social unit shaping security culture: Polish realities
  By: Agnieszka Wioletta Filipek
• September 30, 2020 The rules and organisation of air traffic at airstrips during military operations: Based on experience gained on missions in Chad and Afghanistan
  By: Rafał Zajkowski
• September 30, 2020 Compulsory military service as a social integrator
  By: Ronen Itsik
• September 30, 2020 The roots of armed conflicts: Multilevel security perspective
  By: Marzena Zakowska
• September 30, 2020 Russian information offensive in the international relations
  By: Ryszard Szpyra
• September 30, 2020 Willingness to defend one’s country and to resist in the Baltic states
  By: Māris Andžāns, Andris Spruds
• June 30, 2020 Cloud system in digital human resources management in Turkey
  By: Serap Ergen
• June 30, 2020 Values and norms of behaviour in the life of cadets
  By: Kamil Dziwanowski
• June 30, 2020 Operation “Olympic Games.” Cyber-sabotage as a tool of American intelligence aimed at counteracting the development of Iran’s nuclear programme
  By: Mariusz Antoni Kamiński
• June 30, 2020 Operations in subterranean systems: Terrain and weather variable
  By: José Paulo Silva Bartolomeu
• June 30, 2020 The future of energy security of states
  By: Jarosław Gryz
• June 30, 2020 Participation of V4 countries in African peacekeeping missions
  By: János Besenyő
• March 31, 2020 Critical infrastructure in the shaping of national security
  By: Ewa Żaboklicka
• March 31, 2020 An easy target? Types of attack on oil tankers by state actors
  By: Maciej Hacaga
• March 31, 2020 GOVSATCOM makes the EU stronger on security and defence
  By: Rafał Borek, Kaja Hopej, Paweł Chodosiewicz
• March 31, 2020 Components of defence strategies in society’s information environment: a case study based on the grounded theory
  By: Erja Birgitta Mustonen-Ollila, Martti Lehto, Jukka Heikkonen
• March 31, 2020 Near-Earth Objects (NEO) and other current space threats
  By: Radosław Bielawski
• December 31, 2019 The use of weaponized kites and balloons in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict
  By: Joanna Zych
• December 31, 2019 Engagement of Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone – utility assessment
  By: Mateusz Maciąg
• December 31, 2019 The Influence of strategic culture on shaping security policy
  By: Adrian Mitrega, Marian Kozub
• December 31, 2019 The role of social media in emergency management during the 2019 flood in Poland
  By: Dorota Domalewska
• December 31, 2019 Wars in the later 21st century: Forecast developments in the methods of warfare
  By: Marcin Gornikiewicz
• December 31, 2019 The impact of crime on security in tourism
  By: Hrvoje Mataković
• December 31, 2019 China and its wests – evolution of security dynamics and its consequences for the defence industries of the involved actors
  By: Paweł Markiewicz
• December 31, 2019 Sanitary aviation in post-war Poland – historical outline
  By: Robert Wit Rezner
• December 31, 2019 U.S. Grand Strategy Towards Russia 2001-2017
  By: Martins Hirss
• December 31, 2019 Social structure determinants of Polish military manpower
  By: Roman Kopka
• December 31, 2019 Modern aspects of the development of security in air transport under the conditions of air terrorism
  By: Daniel Michalski, Adam Radomyski
• December 31, 2019 Russia's return to the superpower status
  By: Mirosław Minkina
• December 31, 2019 Recent U.S. and International Assessment of Baltic Security Developments
  By: Bert Chapman
• September 30, 2019 Kaliningrad oblast in the military system of the Russian Federation
  By: Marek Żyła
• September 30, 2019 Increasing the information superiority on the modern battlefield through the use of virtual reality systems
  By: Łukasz Rybak, Janusz Dudczyk
• September 30, 2019 The basic health care system in a crisis situation after the use of weapons of mass destruction
  By: Mateusz Kuczabski
• September 30, 2019 Chemical weapons as potential tools in terrorist attacks – risks and preventive action
  By: Andrzej Czop
• September 30, 2019 Combating destabilising forces in modern operations. Research report
  By: Wojciech Robert Więcek
• September 30, 2019 Lithuania in European Union common security and defence policy context
  By: Donatas Palavenis
• September 30, 2019 Immigrant integration policy and practices in Poland
  By: Dorota Domalewska, Marzena Zakowska
• June 30, 2019 European Union common security and defence policy and Latvian involvement in EU battlegroups
  By: Valerijs Bodnieks
• June 30, 2019 Concerns on the issue of defence expenditure in the post-crisis Greece
  By: Odysseus Katsaitis, Konstantine Kondylis, George Andrew Zombanakis
• June 30, 2019 Effectiveness of training: The conceptual framework and methodological strategy of a longitudinal study in the Portuguese armed forces
  By: Nuno Alberto Rodrigues Santos Loureiro, Mariana Gaio Alves
• June 30, 2019 Military higher education teaching and learning methodologies: An approach to the introduction of technologies in the classroom
  By: Lúcio Agostinho Barreiros dos Santos, Nuno Alberto Rodrigues Santos Loureiro, Joaquim Manuel Martins do Vale Lima, José Augusto de Sousa Silveira, Rui José da Silva Grilo
• June 30, 2019 Preparing for future security challenges with practitioner research
  By: David Last, Travis Morris, Bernadette Dececchi
• June 30, 2019 The royal military college of Canada: Responding to the call for change
  By: Harry J. Kowal
• June 30, 2019 Vulnerability analysis in critical infrastructures: A methodology
  By: António Ferreira
• June 30, 2019 Wargaming the cyber resilience of structurally and technologically different networks
  By: Heikki Lantto, Bernt Åkesson, Marko Suojanen, Topi Tuukkanen, Simo Huopio, Juha-Pekka Nikkarila, Mari Ristolainen
• June 30, 2019 Military capabilities and the strategic planning conundrum
  By: João Correia
• June 30, 2019 Influence of global security environment on collective security and defence science
  By: Miroslav Mitrovic
• March 31, 2019 Illegal immigration as a threat to the safety of the Republic of Poland
  By: Andrzej Soboń, Marzena Piertuniak
• March 31, 2019 Coping with the “Nimby Syndrome”: Political issues related to the building of big infrastructures in liberal democracy countries
  By: Agostino Massa
• March 31, 2019 Non-military determinants of the Russian Federation policy
  By: Bogdan Grenda
• March 31, 2019 Hybridity – a ‘new’ method to accomplish dominance
  By: Leszek Elak, Zdzislaw Sliwa
• March 31, 2019 Rentier economy of the Kurdish region in Iraq as a source of barriers for the regional security sector reform
  By: Piotr Sosnowski
• March 31, 2019 Preparation of Polish police officers for peace missions
  By: Kamil Kuć, Walentyna Trzcińska
• March 31, 2019 On the variable of strategic culture: Modus operandi of military interventions in the Middle East
  By: Andrius Bivainis
• March 31, 2019 “Autonomisation” of security and defence systems
  By: Artur Kuptel
• December 31, 2018 Polish-Ukrainian military units in the years 1991-2018
  By: Marek Żyła
• December 31, 2018 Modern assumptions of the American ballistic missile defence system against the background of historical concepts and programmes
  By: Aleksandra Murat-Bors
• December 31, 2018 Defence infrastructure - an attempt at identification
  By: Piotr Krzykowski
• December 31, 2018 Security policy of the Baltic states and its determining factors
  By: Sławomir Piotrowski
• December 31, 2018 The Balkans and non-military security threats – quality comparative analyses of resilience capabilities regarding hybrid threats
  By: Miroslav Mitrovic
• December 31, 2018 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the protection of the elements of a country’s critical infrastructure – selected directions of development
  By: Radosław Bielawski, Witold Rządkowski, Rafał Perz
• December 31, 2018 Types of Security Education in Poland. Selected examples
  By: Marlena Zadorożna
• December 31, 2018 Students’ opinions about the subject of Security Education in upper secondary schools
  By: Barbara Drapikowska
• December 31, 2018 National defence training of public administration personnel in Poland
  By: Bogdan Grenda, Andrzej Soboń
• December 31, 2018 Military education for students within the framework of the Academic Legion: A pilot project
  By: Przemysław Wywiał
• December 31, 2018 Strengthening defence research as part of higher military education for future security challenges
  By: Nebojsa Nikolic
• December 31, 2018 Gaming for peace: Gender awareness training and the Polish military
  By: Anne Holohan, Justyna Pyz, Kamila Trochowska
• December 31, 2018 The subjective dimension of Security Education
  By: Krzysztof Drabik
• December 31, 2018 Security Education in dangerous times
  By: Andrzej Pieczywok
• September 30, 2018 Contemporary challenges in military logistics support
  By: Marta Pawelczyk
• September 30, 2018 The threat of cyber attacks in urban conurbations
  By: Marta Bachor
• September 30, 2018 Defence diplomacy – an important tool for the implementation of foreign policy and security of the state
  By: Lech Drab
• September 30, 2018 Limitations in the airspace sovereignty of states in connection with space activity
  By: Malgorzata Polkowska
• September 30, 2018 Notion of strategic national security management
  By: Remigiusz Wiśniewski
• September 30, 2018 Increasing operational capabilities of NATO in the face of modern challenges and threats
  By: Bogdan Grenda
• June 30, 2018 An analysis of popular justice on Polish Facebook discussion groups
  By: Bartosz Płotka
• June 30, 2018 Open source intelligence (OSINT) as an element of military recon
  By: Agata Ziółkowska
• June 30, 2018 Developing skills in securing safety when travelling as an additional educational need of school children and young people
  By: Marcin Pasek, Remigiusz Dróżdż, Tomasz Kochańczyk
• June 30, 2018 The Shia armed groups and the future of Iraq
  By: Kardo Karim Rached, Ahmed Omar Bali
• June 30, 2018 Central Europe after 1918. A short outline
  By: Dariusz Miszewski, Franciszek Dabrowski, Marek Deszczyński, Grzegorz Wnętrzak
• June 30, 2018 The role of reservists and reserve associations today
  By: László Ujházy