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TODAY’S INTENSE CONFRONTATION between Russia and the West is causing increasing anxiety both among political experts and among ordinary people all over the world. Polemics between the two sides tend to be sharper than propaganda philippics of the Cold War era. 1 The euphoria of the 1990s over the “end of history” with the standoff […]
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Ensuring Russia’s National Security in the Arctic N.I. Sidnyayev Is Science-and-Technology Security Up to the Task of Ensuring Russia’s Defense Capability and Knowledge-Intensive Economic Development? V.V. Selivanov, Yu.D. Ilyin MILITARY ART Gaining and Maintaining Aerospace Superiority Should Take a Fitting Place in the Development of Russian Military Theory and Aerospace Forces Training […]
This paper covers issues of Russia’s national security in the Arctic as viewed from the military perspective. It examines the trends in the development of a reliable defense system for this country. It postulates the importance of greater defense capacity in the Russian Arctic, as NATO relentlessly builds up its military forces next to Russian borders, and the US military infrastructure continues to develop.
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