Command – Leadership – Management: Ein integratives Führungsmodell für militärische und zivile Organisationen
[Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), 12.03.2026, Patrick Hofstetter, Florian Demont et Sarah von Felten]
Le modèle de conduite Commandement – Leadership – Management, développé en 2023 et officialisé en janvier 2025 dans la stratégie du Groupe Défense, est désormais présenté de manière systématique et replacé dans son contexte théorique pour la première fois dans un article de journal scientifique évalué par des pairs. Cet article ne se limite toutefois pas à une simple présentation du modèle. Sous la forme d’une étude de cas inductive et conceptuelle, il explique explicitement pourquoi et comment cette approche issue du contexte militaire peut être transposée aux organisations civiles. Ce qui semble souvent aller de soi en Suisse en raison de l’ancrage social profond de l’armée doit d’abord être rendu plausible et justifié dans les pays voisins. C’est précisément ce que le présent article tente de démontrer.
Link (open access): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11612-026-00870-3
Evolution of Russian Tactics
[YouTube: War Archive, 26.12.2025]
By breaking down the Russian invasion of Ukraine into five phases, War Archive shows how the Russian Armed Forces adapted over time. In the beginning they attempted a decapitation strike aimed mainly at the capital Kyiv in what War Archive calls a “Modernized Blitzkrieg”. As this failed due to unexpected Ukrainian resistance and a lack of air superiority, in May 2022 the Russian armed forces shifted their approach to rely less on manoeuvre and more on an artillery “Wall of Fire”. These artillery-enabled advances then ground to a halt as Ukrainian deep-strikes (such as with HIMARS) targeted the logistics needed for such high artillery firing rates. Having attempted to outmanoeuvre and outgun their opponent, in late 2022 the Russians then shifted their focus to relying on infantry assaults mostly constituted by Wagner troops. As Wagner was disbanded, the regular Russian Armed Forces incorporated Wagner’s infantry-heavy approach and added limited mechanised elements to it. Since mid-2024, they now rely on infiltrating Ukrainian-held positions in small teams. Whereas most teams are quickly eliminated, sheer numbers mean that some are inevitably successful in eroding Ukrainian defences over time, as seen in Russia’s capture of the centre of Pokrovsk in December 2025. Apart from this analysis, War Archive posts other videos where he analyses specific battles of the War in Ukraine in detail. Most notably, his video about the Battle for Hostomel Airport allows the viewers to study how Russian forces attacked and why their plan of enabling an air bridge to Hostomel ultimately failed.
Link Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6MfjV2vsdg
Link: Hostomel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Ji7KqqEqg
From Relic to Relevance: Why Obsolete Weapons Still Win Modern Wars
[Modern War Institute, 13.11.2025, Lukáš Dyčka]
The Bundeswehr retired its Gepard air defence systems in 2010. 12 years later Germany exported Gepard systems to Ukraine, where they proved very capable of defending against Russian Shahed/Geran drones. This article highlights how « obsolete » platforms « may be one adversary or one type of terrain away from renewed relevance. » With European armed forces facing the possibility of a long war and hence being in need of redundancies and deep stockpiles, the author wants armed forces to stop calling weapon systems obsolete and to « Start asking what problems they can still solve ».
Link: https://mwi.westpoint.edu/from-relic-to-relevance-why-obsolete-weapons-still-win-modern-wars/
Le Polemarque
[La Chouette Librairie]
Une librairie en ligne française moins connue, la Chouette Librairie, propose une sélection ciblée d’ouvrages en études stratégiques, histoire militaire, éthique militaire et leadership. Son catalogue comprend des œuvres influentes de figures telles que Guisan, Rommel et Fuller, entièrement en français.
Link: https://www.lachouettelibrairie.com/editeur/le-polemarque/
Is Europe Too Soft to Fight?
[War on the Rocks, 28.10.2025, Florence Gaub, Roderick Parkes]
Gaub and Parkes warn that as governments see their population as unwilling and too soft to fight, they risk a self-fulfilling prophecy. They argue that instead of a fixed category, the « will to fight » should be treated as societal potential that can be both suppressed or cultivated.
Link: https://warontherocks.com/2025/10/is-europe-too-soft-to-fight/
The Case for Treating Drones as Ammunition
[War on the Rocks, 21.11.2025, Zachary Griffiths, Jeff Ivas]
Griffiths and Ivas argue that the US Army will not scale small drones successfully if it continues to manage them like durable equipment. Drawing on Ukraine’s high consumption rates and rapidly growing production, they frame small quadcopters and first-person view drones as inherently expendable, closer in cost and turnover to mortar rounds than to “aircraft”. The author’s proposal is straightforward: classify small aerial drones as conventional ammunition, switch from brand-based procurement to role-based “drone families” (recon, FPV, etc), standardise controllers, and use simulators in addition to live drones to lower drone attrition during training.
Link: https://warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-case-for-treating-drones-as-ammunition/
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