Jozef Andrew Kosc

Jozef Andrew Kosc, KHS, PhD is a diplomatic historian, political scientist, and former senior national security analyst. He completed his DPhil (PhD) as a British Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he authored a revisionist history of the Anglo-American Iraq War (2003-11), drawing on thousands of newly declassified sources.
Dr. Kosc currently serves as an America in the World Consortium Fellow at the Hamilton Center, University of Florida, and as a fellow at the Bill Graham Center for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. In 2019, Dr. Kosc was invested into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a chivalric order under the protection of the Holy See (the Vatican), in recognition of his support for the Christian presence in the Middle East.

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Why Putin Will Never Give Up Kyiv, with or without a Trump-Brokered Deal

Putin invaded Ukraine not out of any material reason like economic interest or force projection, but of the spiritual conviction that Russia cannot be whole without Kyiv

Thousands of Paper Cuts, Then a Nuclear Bomb: Georges Sorel, French Anarchism, and Iran’s Revolutionary Warfighting Doctrine

Iran’s warfighting doctrine is rooted in early 20th century anarchism, millenarian eschatology, and the revolutionary myth that every martyr contributes to bring about an apocalyptic ‘final victory.’

Iran’s Enduring Apocalyptic Political Mythology

Iran’s governing elite cannot stop fighting Israel and America because the Islamic Republic’s foundational myth depends on a perpetual revolution waged against the West