SJMS Talks
Dive into the broad field of Military Studies! SJMS Talks is an academic podcast published by the journal, Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies (SJMS). The podcast aims to bridge the gap between peer-reviewed academic scholarship and current affairs. In the 25-minutes episodes, chief editor, Daniel Møller Ølgaard, invites one of the journal contributors to discuss recent developments related to their published research. By doing so, the podcast demonstrates the practical and political applicability of Military Studies as an academic discipline.
Episodes
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
The backdrop of this episode is the recent revelations from Süddeutsche Zeiting, NDR an Delfi in Germany about the Russian Social Design Agency, planning to induce a nuclear psychosis in the Western population. One of our contributors, Carina Meyn, has been doing extensive fieldwork among security experts in the US, dealing with nuclear weapons. She joins our host Daniel Møller Ølgaard in the studio.
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
In this episode, Isabel Bramsen joins the studio with our new host, Daniel Møller Ølgaard – one of the chief editors of SJMS. The two political scientists discuss peace in the Middle East, and the benefits of a micro-sociological perspective on peace and conflict studies. SJMS-contributor Bramsen recently published the book The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Contributor Professor David Betz visits the podcast to talk about the future of warfare. Rather than pointing to novel information technologies as war’s driving force, David turns to techniques from the past, such as citadel and marching forts, arguing that drivers of future warfare at best is technological in origin only secondary, and that rather than tactics of maneuvering, tactics of fortification is key when looking at the future of warfare.
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
There seems to be something true to the logistics experts saying: “In peace time we talk about war, in war time, we talk about logistics.” One of the most read articles in our journal tries to elaborate on the failing logistics on the Russian side early in the war. Contributors Thomas Ekström and Per Skoglund are in the studio to discuss what is their take on how Russian logistics have evolved throughout the war, and how it might evolve in the future.
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Lessons from the war in Ukraine indicate that in future emergencies a kind of cyber militia might be useful to have. But what is a cyber militia? How should it be governed? And what roles can it perform? Contributor Dan Jerker Svantesson is invited to the podcast, to talk about cyber defence post Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Groups such as the Popular Resistance of Ukraine and the Atesh partisan movement of Crimea have taken credit for several attacks on Russian soldiers and military infrastructures. Is there anything new about these forms of popular resistance? And what is the future of unconventional warfare? To answer these questions, we have invited one of the world’s leading voices on irregular warfare and counterinsurgency, David Kilcullen.
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Recently in Denmark, a survey showed that every fifth person in the Danish Army had experienced sexual harassment. This is a lot, but it is less than the general population. How come? Has the work with minimizing sexual harassment paid off? Or do people in the defense tend to report less, than others do? In the studio, contributor Iselin Silja Kaspersen joins Jeppe Teglskov Jacobsen on zoom to talk about how institutions such as the military shape and break our identity.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Light infantry are flexible, lightly equipped soldiers who engage in ground combat on foot. What are the dos and don’ts when considering investing in such units? Kristian Lindhardt is in the studio five years after Denmark got its first light infantry, and two years after he published his practice-oriented article on historical uses of light infantry in Vietnam, Rhodesia and Sierra Leone.
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Back in 2022, SJMS fast-tracked a special collection on Ukraine. Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom contributed with an article on the demographic constitution, structure and role of the pro-Ukrainian foreign fighters. We met Naman at the SJMS conference at Södertörn University in august to ask him what’s currently going on with foreign fighters in Ukraine.
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
We continue our discussion on Arctic security politics, focusing on China and their interest in the Arctic Council. Camilla Sørensen, the foremost expert of China’s role in global politics at the Royal Danish Defence College joins us in the studio in Copenhagen. Camilla has recently published an article in SJMS with her colleague, Jørgen Staun. Read the full article at sjms.nu.
Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
SJMS Talks is published by the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies. SJMS is an online, open access journal publishing both high quality research and practice-oriented studies relevant to the military profession. The journal welcomes submissions from a wide range of scholarly traditions including anthropology, sociology, philosophy, history, strategic studies, international relations, leadership and organization studies as well as security and defense politics. It is produced and published by the Royal Danish Defence College, the Norwegian Defence University College, the Swedish Defence University, the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish Centre for Studies of Armed Forces and Society. Read more at sjms.nu.