The Russian Armed Forces at the Dawn of the Millennium

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD .vii

IN MEMORIUM ix

Part One: Domestic-Political Environment Introduction - Marybeth P. Ulrich 1

Russia’s Failed Democratic National Security State and the Wars in Chechnya - Marybeth P. Ulrich

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The Russian Military, Politics and Security Policy in the 1990s - Mikhail Tsypkin .. 23

Environmental Issues and Russian Security - Odelia Funke 45

Do Russian Federation Health and Demography Matter in the Revolution in Military Affairs? -

Theodore Karasik . 77

Economic Foundations of Rusian Military Modernization: Putin’s Dilemma - Steven Rosefielde . 99

Part Two: The State of the Military

Introduction - Stephen J. Blank . 115

Seduced and Abandoned: Russian Civil-Military Relations Under Yeltsin - Deborah Yarsike Ball ..

117

The Continuing Disintegration of the Russian Military - Dale R. Herspring . 133

The Politics of Russian Military Reform - John C. Reppert .. 147

New Structures, Old Thinking - Michael Orr . 157

What Can the Military-Industrial Complex of Greater Russian Deliver in the Next Decade? -

Alexander Kennaway .. 169

Part Three: Russia’s International Situations

Introduction - R. Craig Nation .. 189

Military Threats and Threat Assessment in Russia’s New Defense Doctrine and Security Concept -

Stephen J. Blank . 191

Russia and Europe: All Quiet on the Western Front? - R. Craig Nation .. 221

Russia in the Caucasus: Sovereignty, Intervention, and Retreat - Pavel K. Baev 237

Russia’s Strategic and Military Interests in North and South East Asia - Frank Umbach .. 259

Part Four: Russian Military Initiatives

Introduction

James F. Holcomb . 321

The Russian Armed Forces, the Draft Military Doctrine, and the Revolution in Military Affairs: The

Oracle of Delphi and Cassandra Revisted - Dr. Jacop Kipp 324

The Russian View of Information War - Timothy L. Thomas 335

Nuclear Doctrine and Strategic Force Modernization - Christoph Bluth .. 361

Russia, Nuclear Weapons, and Strategic Arms Control - Stephen J. Cimbala 379

CONTRIBUTORS.. 395