Innovative Defense Research, LLC
Innovative Defense Research, LLC, is a think tank providing nearly fifty years of research and analysis experience in national security, urban operations, and leadership. The well-received Come Hell or High Fever: Readying the World’s Megacities for Disaster is the most recent nonfiction release. It is available for free download from Australian National University Press. See the “Previous research and titles” tab for information on how to acquire a copy, that in addition to a complete list of Innovative Defense Research publicly-available titles.
Russ’s latest, released October 2024, highly praised Brutal Catalyst: What Ukraine’s Cities Tell Us About Recovery From War:
War is inflicting terrible suffering on the cities in which Ukrainians live, love, work, and raise families. Wartime destruction, injuries, and death have too little diminished despite improvements in weapons technology. By examining the cases of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Berlin, Manila, and Sarajevo and three representative Ukrainian cities—Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mariupol—Brutal Catalyst offers invaluable approaches to urban recovery and transformation. Glenn’s broad grasp of essential considerations incorporates international cooperation, demands on leadership and management, effective donor approaches, housing, health care, unexploded ordnance disposal, collaboration with the enemy, corruption, ethnic conflict, and education, these among others.
See testimonials at the “Previous Research and titles” tab just above. Further description, related blog posts, and more can be found at www.ukrainecities.com.
As of April 2023, an original and unique novel: Gods’ War, the ultimate effect of which, in one reviewer’s words, “is that the reader will be able to experience the civil war as fought in the Eastern Theater as if he were there.” Go to the “Gods’ War” tab above for more.
