Peter Caddick–Adams

Dr Peter Caddick–Adams is a professional defence analyst and military historian, and lectured at the UK Defence Academy on war and security issues, working in 58 countries. He has worked for the British army, and was the official NATO Historian in Bosnia, and the UK Historian during the Iraq War. His last book, 1945: Victory in the West, was published in 2022. Follow him at @militaryhistori

He exposes his own lack of strategic thinking

Campaign Diary: Bedbound reflections on the ongoing brutality of war in Ukraine

Campaign Diary: The sinking of the decaying Soviet-era warship symbolises Russia’s military malaise

Campaign Diary: Expect extra chest-thumping on “Soviet Victory Day”

Campaign Diary: Putin’s regime is suffering from an old problem — imperial overreach

Campaign Diary: Evidence of Russian war crimes found in Bucha

Campaign Diary: Russia is playing a long game and tapping into its Soviet past

Once month since the invasion, Moscow’s numbers don’t add up