In the Tsarist, Soviet, and Russian military tradition, doctrine plays a particularly important role. Doctrine is supposed to represent an official view or views about the character of contemporary war, the threats to Russia, and what policies the government and armed forces will initiate and ...
After the Biden administration allowed Ukraine to attack Russia with longer-range American-made ATACMS missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putinlowered the thresholdfor using his nuclear arsenal, with the new doctrine announced Tuesdaypermitting a potential nuclear responseby ...
Toward a Nuclear Peace analyzes the future of nuclear weapons in the defence policy of the United States and the European nu... W Walker,MJ Mazarr,AT Lennon,... - 《International Affairs》 被引量: 2发表: 1994年 Nuclear Weapons in U.S. National Security Policy: Past, Present, and ...
New START, however, does not include a formal provision for “suspending” the treaty as President Putin has declared. In the same speech, Putin also claimed that the United States was preparing to conduct nuclear tests and suggested that “the Defence Ministry and Rosatom must make everything ...
Therefore, western policy towards Russia must have three strands: Deterrence, Defence and Transformation. For such a transformation to take place, the Russian people need to be helped to let go of their old dreams of rebuilding the empire and to start to believe in a new dream of normal life...
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Defence Minister Igor Sergeev, and Deputy Head of Foreign Intelligence Service Aleksei Shcherbakov visited Belgrade trying to convince Milosevic to maintain the cease-fire and resume negotiations with the Albanians: J. Headley (2008), 342. ...
The Baltic states should adopt the self-defence pinpricks doctrine: the "accumulation of events" threshold as a deterrent to Russian hybrid warfare This article addresses a key legal debate that the Baltic NATO members ought to engage in: what constitutes an "armed attack" and what interpretation...
Just a few years later at the conclusion of WWII the US pushed to make the defence of “following orders” null and void for what were concidered not just war crimes but crimes against humanity. The United Nations amongst other organisations put in place principles that should protect individua...
Nuclear weapons deployment complies with international law, as does NATO -- Belarus(Ukrainska Pravda)Belarus has stated that by agreeing to deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, it allegedly took "forced retaliatory actions" to strengthen its security and defence capabilities and wa...
Sergei Shoigu, 66, defence minister In his first years in power, Putin (who was a relatively junior KGB officer) could be regarded as “first among equals” in a top elite of friends and colleagues. No longer. Increasingly, even thesilovikihave been publicly reduced to servants of the auto...