I am Vladimir Shirogorov, a historian committed to comparative history, military history, military strategy, historical sociology, and political science. For the last eight years, I have been living in Lecco, Italy, where I had to depart due to the pressure that I was put under by the Russian authorities following the publication of my book series "Ukrainian War. Armed conflict over Eastern Europe in the 16th–17th centuries." Despite being in Russian, its three volumes have good sales not only in Russia but also in Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries and globally. They are presented in university libraries in the United States, Europe, and worldwide. It is a comparative study of military development and warfare in Muscovy, Poland, and Lithuania; the Crimean and Kazan Khanates; the Ottoman Empire; and Sweden. While living in Italy, I authored a book, "War on the Eve of Nations. Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450–1500, published by Lexington, USA, in 2021, and a large essay, "A True Beast of Land and Water: The Gunpowder Mutation of Amphibious Warfare," in The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs, ed. by Mark Charles Fissel, published by De Gruyter, Germany, in 2022. Both of my publications have good scholarly reviews, and they have caught the attention of non-professionals. They were followed by a series of essays on the military revolution, strategic practice, and geopolitics in larger Eastern Europe in the volumes on the military revolution and practice of strategy and periodicals published in 2021–2025 by SISM in Rome, Italy. My comparative study on military strategies in larger Eastern Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries, “Strategies of Ukrainian War, 1500–1800. Poland, Russia and the Ottomans: A Conflict over Hegemony” is in print with Pen&Sword, UK.