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Russian Naval Shipbuilding: Is It Possible to Fulfill the Kremlin’s Grand Expectations?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Russia’s takeover of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent reinforcement of the region’s military forces have been combined with a general increase in naval activity—including aggressive activity…

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Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today

(POLITICO) HELSINKI — When Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of the Soviet Union, he did not see much need to threaten Europe with his country’s vast nuclear arsenal: The USSR’s overwhelming…

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Gorenburg on the current state and future development of the Russian Navy

Russia’s Naval Power in the 21st Century (Russian Military Reform | July 27) Wilson Center video recording of a roundtable event on the state of the Russian Navy. Dmitry Gorenburg (CNA/Harvard University) and Olga Oliker (RAND) provided…

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Armata – Russia’s Future Main Battle Tank

This is an Oxford Analytica brief that was originally published on April 14, 2015. I've restored a few cuts made for space reasons. SIGNIFICANCE: Russia's military is currently undergoing a 700…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 5: International cooperation in combating terrorism

With apologies for the long delay, today I'm posting the final installment of my notes from the 2015 Moscow Conference on International Security, covering the panel on combating terrorism and…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 4: Russian views of NATO

In addition, to the plenary session, there were two panels at this year's MCIS conference. The second, on the role of military and political instruments in ensuring regional and global…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 3: Speeches by foreign defense ministers

This year, there were a lot of foreign defense ministers participating in the Moscow Conference on International Security. In fact, there were so many that the organizers had to take…

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Gorenburg: Russian military programs will keep running, but cuts or delays are inevitable

(WSJ) MOSCOW—Russia’s economic crisis is forcing President Vladimir Putin to quietly scale back plans to build an “indomitable” military, even as Moscow readies one of the largest-ever displays of its might on Red…

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Gorenburg: Russia’s strategic nuclear forces still seen as the trump card

(The Economist) Putin’s new model army – money and reform have given Russia armed forces it can use. This week Vladimir Putin said he had ordered 40,000 of his troops,…

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Crimea Taught Us a Lesson, But Not How the Russian Military Fights

With the rapid operation that resulted in the annexation of Crimea earlier this year, the Russian military returned to the collective consciousness of the American public. Many commentators were impressed…

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Russian Military Reform

Russian Naval Shipbuilding: Is It Possible to Fulfill the Kremlin’s Grand Expectations?

Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today

Gorenburg on the current state and future development of the Russian Navy

Armata – Russia’s Future Main Battle Tank

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 5: International cooperation in combating terrorism

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 4: Russian views of NATO

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 3: Speeches by foreign defense ministers

Gorenburg: Russian military programs will keep running, but cuts or delays are inevitable

Gorenburg: Russia’s strategic nuclear forces still seen as the trump card

Crimea Taught Us a Lesson, But Not How the Russian Military Fights