Why and how Ukraine should win the war Public lecture by Professor Philips O'Brien

Why should the world maintain the support towards Ukraine if there are no significant changes along the front line? How can we speed up the deoccupation of Ukraine? Why should I care about the Ukrainian victory?

On Ukrainian Unity Day (Monday 22 January) join the lecture by Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies Philips O'Brien to reflect on the importance of Ukrainian defense and further liberation of its territories occupied by Russia since 2014. The lecture will give you the full-scale war summary for the past two years and encourage you to think about how the potential future of Ukraine could develop and how victory could be achieved.

The lecture is arranged by the St Andrews Ukrainian Society, with the cooperation of Professor O'Brien, Head of the School of International Relations. He has done profound research on grand strategy and war history, including topics such as naval policy and American and British histories in World War II. His books include ‘How the war was won: air-sea power and allied victory in World War II' published in 2015 and ‘The second most powerful man in the world: the life of Admiral William D Leahy' published in 2019.

Since the full-scale war outbreak and for the past two years he has been actively engaged in studying the Russo-Ukrainian war, writing a weekly newsletter with strategic updates and articles for ‘The Atlantic' and the ‘Washington Street Journal', as well as recording a regular podcast about the war.