Russia’s New and Unrealistic Naval Doctrine
(War on the Rocks) The Russian Navy is keen on showy demonstrations of strength. Just in the last week, it has begun an exercise with the Chinese navy in the Baltic Sea and…
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What we learned from the Russian naval salon
(RMR blog) Every two years, St. Petersburg hosts a major naval salon, where Russian and foreign shipbuilders come to show off their latest products. Representatives of the Russian Navy also attend,…
Midrats Springtime for Russia
(RMR blog) In what seems to have become an annual tradition, I was on the Blog Talk Radio show Midrats this week, talking about the Russian military, Russian political developments,…
Moscow Int’l Security Conference 2017 – Rudskoi slides
(Russian Military Reform) One last set of slides from the Moscow International Security Conference, this one mostly maps describing operations in Syria. A lot of the slides in this set were actually…
Moscow Conference on International Security 2017: Cooperation lost in translation
(The National Interest) (Co-authored with Michael Kofman) May is a busy time in Moscow, from tanks drilling on the city’s main thoroughfares in preparation for the annual World War II victory parade…
Moscow Conference on International Security 2017 – missile defense slides
(RMR) One more installment. Two sets of slides on missile defense. A Russian language video recording of the entire panel is available, with some of the slides visible in conjunction with the…
Moscow Conference on International Security 2017; Gerasimov slides
(RMR blog) As I mentioned in my last post, I was once again at the Moscow Conference on International Security last week. I will post my overall impressions in the next…
Russia’s New Conventional Capability: Implications for Eurasia and Beyond
(PONARS Policy Memo) In late 2015 and early 2016, Russia demonstrated in Syria that it had acquired long-range, precision-guided, conventional-strike capability, the use of which has implications far beyond military utility.…
Russia’s Strategic Calculus: Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrine
(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian foreign policy is driven by the political elites’ search for a new basis for national self-esteem after the collapse of the Soviet Union disrupted old Soviet…
Russia-India arms deal
(RMR) Russia and India signed a major arms deal on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Goa this past weekend. The deal included four major components. First, India becomes the…