Errand War: An Observer’s Perspective on Russian-Ukrainian War
Journal: The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies
Year: 2023

This study traverses a new conceptual direction in war studies. It attempts to establish a simplex in the lexicon of international studies without de-establishing the signification of an extant phrase – proxy war. Errand war is not in competition with proxy war. Errand war, unlike proxy war, is a derivative construct from a leader's message couched and presented with swaggering egotism to the political leadership of an assumed 'subservient' state. Proxy war then remains proxy war. The paper, the