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Modern Russian Defense Doctrine
On December 26, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new military doctrine for the Russian armed forces. The document identifies the expansion of...
Russia Calling the Shots: Extrapolating from the Kerch Strait
The quasi-standoff this past week between Russia and Ukraine over the Kerch Strait has been painted in the West with a decidedly anti-Russian brush....
Bleak See on the Black Sea
Following the latest events in and around the Black Sea, two old questions are reappearing. Both are inviting us for a repeated elaboration:
If a...
A real European army: A naive or prudent idea?
A new strategic debate has engulfed not only the European continent but also other great powers across the globe. The idea of an EU...
A European Response to US Withdrawal from the INF Treaty
Ahead of the meeting of President Putin and President Trump in Paris on November 11th 2018, 79 European political, diplomatic and military leadership figures...
Dayton Peace Accord 23 Years On: Ensured Peace and Stability in Former Yugoslavia
For the past twenty-three years life has been comparatively peaceful in the breakaway republics of the former Yugoslavia. The complicated civil war that began...
The Vostok 2018 exercises and their strategic significance
The Russian, Chinese and Mongolian exercises known as Vostok 2018 have been particularly important both from a military and tactical viewpoint and due to...
A de facto alliance exists between China and Russia
From mid-August to September 15, 2018, Chinese troops went to Russia to participate in the "Vostok-2018" strategic military exercise, which was the largest strategic...
What will happen as a result of the Turkish Lira crisis?
As often happens in these cases, the financial structure of the current Turkish crisis was quite simple initially: as is always the case during...
Is Russia a real national security threat to the west or is it only a paper tiger?
Since, the 2008Â Presidential elections debate of America, the American political elite and the deep-state consider Russia a number one geo-political threat, to the...