Abstract The battlefield debut and sustained operational employment of Russian long-range precision-strike weapons during the Russo-Ukrainian War furnish a canonical empirical laboratory for systematic interrogation of technological surprise and the subsequent process of normalization through use. Expectations of technological revolution—whether utopian visions of decisive offset advantages for the deploying party or dystopian fears of insurmountable … Leggi tutto Normalization Through Battlefield Use: Tactical, Discursive and Systemic Reassessment of Russian Long-Range Precision-Strike Weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War