Viktoriya Fedorchak
Associate Senior Lecturer
- Viktoriya.Fedorchak@fhs.se
- +46 8-55342827
- Department of War Studies
- Air Operations Division
- War Studies
About Viktoriya
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Dr Viktoriya Fedorchak joined the Swedish Defence University, at Air Operations Division in September 2022. She teaches and researches various aspects of air power and modern warfare. Her current research project focuses on different aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war. Her research interests are air power, modern warfare, military doctrine, strategic and organisational cultures and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Previously, she worked as Lecturer in European Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), (Trondheim, Norway). Before that, Dr Fedorchak held the position of Lecturer of Military History at the Department of History, Maynooth University. There, she taught various courses for the Military College of the Irish Defence Forces. Prior to that, she was Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham (UK). She taught Modern Strategy, Air Power, Global Security, Politics, International Relations, and European Studies.
Dr Fedorchak received her PhD from the University of Hull (UK) in 2015, exploring the subject of ‘The Development of RAF Air Power Doctrine, 1999-2013.’ Her monograph ‘British Air Power: The Doctrinal Path to Jointery’ (2018) explored the shift from single-service to joint authorship of environmental doctrine and various stages of institutionalisation of jointery in the British Armed Forces. She is the author of a textbook on air power aimed at civilian and military audiences ‘Understanding Contemporary Air Power’ (2020).
Her most recent monograph, ‘The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power’, was published by Routledge in March 2024. It is freely available in open access. In this monograph, she traced the context of the war, interim 8 years of preparations on both sides, and developments across different domains: land, air, maritime, cyber\information during the 1st year of the full-scale invasion; resilience of the Ukrainian people and the role of partners in sustaining the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Conceptually, the work employs different concepts for analysis: elements of fighting power, asymmetry, critical mass, multi-domain integration, interoperability, resilience and total defence.