Daniel Smith

Today I published my dissertation on combat cohesion in #Ukraine. Focalizing Warfighters - Combat Cohesion from Below. If you are interested in the realities of Ukrainian warfighters, modern warfare, or ethnography. This is for you. fhs.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva…

Det var verkligen ett privilegium att få delta!

Third and final revision here: astrolabium.com.ua/soldat_bojovyj… sprotyvg7.com.ua/vijskovi-publi…

The third and final re-work of the soldier's manual for Ukraine is now complete. Get your digital copy here! Waiting on news about prints from the Swedish Army. Ping @Forsvarsmakten @UKRinSWE astrolabium.com.ua/soldat_bojovyj… sprotyvg7.com.ua/vijskovi-publi…

Last day to register for this lecture on Tuesday is tomorrow Friday: fhs.se/en/swedish-def…

@PVavva @HerrFlax Alltid.

@HerrFlax @DanielSmithHere Men dra vad spännande, längtar redan till att höra mer. Det får bli en fika när jag passerar drottning Kristina nästa gång @DanielSmithHere

Set verkligen fram emot av att ta del av min vän @DanielSmithHere arbete när allt är klart och betalt! fhs.se/arkiv/berattel…

I love it how the whole of Russian Z-snakepit is now twisting hands in its dramatic rant: "The Motherland is in danger, the Russian blood is being spilled, and a civil war is underway now" "There's now fratricide, a stab in the back upon the regular military that is heroically holding on to the front line amid overwhelming assaults" "In the gruesome hour of hardship and trouble, men of honor need to show their integrity and save our common Mother Russia, which is waging a sacred defensive war with the most evil enemy." "No matter what happens now in Moscow, dear brothers, keep killing those hohols with anything you have in your hands. There's nothing more important than Russia." You bunch of sorry-ass morons, with your delusional dictator obsessed with his wretched ego and idiotic pseudo-historic conspiracy theories, unleashed the biggest war of aggression in Europe since Adolf Hitler. Because you thought you are here to rule the world, you were entitled to anything you want, and there was no one to say no and fight back. You were sure you were going to have breakfast in Kyiv and then dine in Lviv, just like that. As a result, some 16 months ago, you sustained a stunning, humiliating defeat in what was one of the lamest, most incompetent, and overconfident attempts to run a blitzkrieg operation against a large European nation. You continued in the most absurd way possible, simply sweeping cities off the face of the earth only for the sake of declaring them "liberated" and claiming yet another "major victory over Nazis and NATO" in capturing yet another hog farm lost somewhere in Luhansk Oblast. For many months, you were fighting your senseless 10-day "special military operation" the way not a single military power or a nation can afford with such gains. Just for the sake of never admitting defeat, you did and normalized the most unimaginable things for the 21st century. Atrocities and mass graves, masses of suicidal prisoners sent to die in meat grinder assaults, castration, beheading, mutilation, the leveling of major cities full of the civilian population, nuclear threats, bombing campaigns to strip a European nation of heating and electricity in the middle of winter, the worst man-made ecological disaster since Chornobyl, the unprecedented occupation and militarization of the biggest European nuclear power plant. You sustained the most unbelievable failures that completely revealed what was underneath all those years of propagandistic bravado and eye-washing. You turned the whole of Donbas into a depopulated desert of ruins and fields of dead bodies scattered as far as the eye can see. You senselessly slaughtered countless thousands of forcibly mobilized males of Donbas who were naive and foolish enough to trust and welcome you in 2014. For your idiotic war that has no goal and no plan other than letting Putin sit on the throne for just another day, you raised a monster -- a giant mercenary army, the meat-grinding machine that is now strong and bold enough to turn its jaws against you. Now you poor pieces of Nazi scum, enjoy drowning in the pile of shit of your own making. You are done. Ukraine was your end. You had it coming. And history will remember this as the most insanely idiotic war ever.

Zlatan poserar med Kadyrovkramaren och MMA-utövaren Khamzat Chimaev. Via Chimaevs Instagram. Det borde han få frågor om.

@mikber11 @kivirken @David_M_Bergman Det är väl jättebra att ifrågasätta traditioner. Allt vi gör "för att det alltid gjorts" kan skrotas. Finns det inga bra skäl bör det förmodligen heller inte göras.

@kivirken @David_M_Bergman I takt med att individualismen ökar i samhället i stort och att professionaliseringen i soldatleden ökat, så ifrågasätts kanske militära traditioner i större utsträckning.

En gång kom en högre chef fram till mig med utsträckt hand. Jag trodde han ville hälsa men i sista sekund blev det en hela handen-pekning mot mitt egeninköpta byxbälte och ett ganska mästrande c-meddelande. Han hade inte reflekterat lika klokt som Andreas. Hoppas han gör det nu.

@kivirken @SMerloev @mikber11 @David_M_Bergman Det finns goda poänger med att fila bort det som inte är funktionell disciplin -inre tjänst handlar om hygien för stridsvärdet och materieltjänsten, inte ens sekundärt om att bygga lag. Allt vi gör handlar om att bygga lag i olika utsträckning, nog bäst genom huvudtjänst.

@SectionIX @mikber11 Här heter han Stepan Shevchenko!

@mikber11 @DanielSmithHere

Vad heter Stig Nilsson i Ukrainska Soldf?

Svenska SoldF har översatts och ska delas ut till ukrainska soldater. Bakom initiativet står Daniel Smith, kapten i armén och doktorand vid Försvarshögskolan. officerstidningen.se/soldaten-i-fal…

To recall the end of the Second World War in Europe means remembering that more Ukrainian civilians were killed than were Russians, and that more Ukrainian soldiers died fighting the Wehrmacht than Americans, British, and Frenchmen — taken together. See numbers in #Bloodlands

@VerkanUnderline @lig_joh Är det inte det automatkanonen är till för?

@lig_joh Är inte syftet att soldaterna ska ha något vettigt att skjuta fienden med?

Appropå SSV 24; några var lite nyfikna på storleken så jag lät en vän ta en bild på ett vapen med samma piplängd slingat över ryggen. Notera dock att vapnet på bild har ljuddämpare monterad. Personligen är jag inte oroad över att det skulle vara för långt.

@Kryddmotti @CinC_AFU @TDF_UA @ukr Enstaka tillägg och anpassningar till #zsu är gjorda, dessutom är sjukvårdskapitlet nytt från kommande soldf.

@DanielSmithHere @CinC_AFU @TDF_UA @ukr Har ni gjort några uppdateringar eller ändringar från det svenska originalet eller är det en översättning rakt av?

After months of work, I want to unveil a volunteer project I have managed. The translation of the Swedish soldier manual, designed for the fight against a numerically superior Russia. This is our gift to the ZSU! 🇸🇪🇺🇦@CinC_AFU @TDF_UA @ukr

@a_feanor Not yet, there are ongoing layout changes.

@DanielSmithHere Amazing job, thank you very much! It would be nice to be able to download the manual as one PDF file, could you add that if it's possible?

@limits_stop Nope, sorry.

@DanielSmithHere Do you happen to have an English-language version?

@nv_astronaut Sorry, I saw it wasn’t possible earlier. Try again please!

@DanielSmithHere Hi, can I get one copy? Can't DM you even subscribed

DM for access to a print-friendlier repository. 👍

As I write this, the material is accessible on soldat.org.ua. Right now as pdf to download. But as time goes the painstaking process of converting into a device-friendly webpage is ongoing. 🇸🇪🇺🇦