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“The premise that the nature of war is defined by armed violence has traditionally been the baseline for Russian theorists.1 That is to say, those who argue for an expansion in the understanding of the nature of war still accept the premise that the nature of war has, in the past, been defined by armed violence. This underlines the need for a study in the Western debate that focuses on the nature of war in the Russian understanding. The question is thus: Has the Russian understanding of the nature of war changed, and if so, how?”
― Oscar Jonsson, The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace