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Studies in Intelligence Vol. 69, No. 4 (Extracts, December 2025)

Review Essay: The Russian Way of War: "Death is Our Business" and "Spetsnaz"

Reviewer: Yong Lee, a senior fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Books Reviewed in this Essay

Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare

Author: John Lechner (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025), 288 pages.

Spetsnaz: A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces

Author: Tor Bukkval (University Press of Kansas, 2025), 306 pages.

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