Publications by pp_editor
The Invisible Networks: Extremist Websites and the Cloak of Cryptology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The digital landscape has always reflected the double-edged nature of technological progress. The same cryptographic […]
Contemporary landmine technology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Contemporary landmine technology and the resurgence of their use represent one of the more bitter […]
The Dugout Near Avdiivka
By Matthew Parish The frost creeps through the timbered trench at dawn, Each breath a ghost that shivers in the […]
Ukraine and the long arc of the history of war
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor History opens with an unsettling observation: when there is no effective common power to arbitrate […]
Kupiansk and Pokvrovsk, the Winter Battles 2025/26
By Matthew Parish Both Kupiansk and Pokrovsk remain pivotal in the eastern theatre of operations. Their capture (or successful defence) […]
Russia’s War Economy in November 2025: Mobilised, Muddling Through, and Becoming More Costly
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Russia enters November 2025 with an economy that is unmistakably on a war footing: re-directed […]
Living Through the War: Isolation, Trauma and Renewal in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor To live through war is to experience the slow unravelling of everything one once understood […]
Travelling under Watch: Practical Electronic Security for High-Risk Jurisdictions
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor States with extensive surveillance capabilities—such as Russia and China—treat foreigners’ devices and online accounts as […]
An Existential Crisis for the Russian Federation
By Matthew Parish When Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he gambled not merely on […]
The United States, Venezuela and Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Since early September 2025 Washington has paired its claim that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is […]



