CONTENTS: Prologue 1. A Strategic Forecasting Exercise: War-Gaming the Russia-Ukraine War 2 Structural Causes of War: Economic Warfare:The Oil Glut Strategy That Destroyed the USSR. Demographics as Destiny 3. Geopolitical Factors: NATO’s Needless Eastward Expansion 4. Opposing Force Levels and Equipment Profiles 5. The Russia-Ukraine War: Conduct of Operations-Phase One 6. Conduct of Operations-Phase Two 7. Information War, Psy-Ops and Cyber War Aspects 8. Nuclear Escalation Scenarios and Pathways 9. Ukraine: Biological War Bridge Head? 10. Economic Warfare: Sanctions and Response 11. Impact and Implications for the Swing State of India 12. A Comparative Analysis of Operations: Bangladesh 1971 and Ukraine 2022 13. Lessons Learnt: The Indian Context Epilogue Bibliography