Why did Russia need so badly Crimea: whether to restore the historical justice or to create strategic point of departure for the further expansion in the West? Harsh increases in the personnel of the Russian armed forces in the peninsula, redeployment of the materiel, start of the military exercises are nothing but the evidences in […]
Russian Defense Minister orders completion of military infrastructure at Step airfield in Zabaikalsky Krai
According to a report on the Russian Ministry of Defense website, General of the Army, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered “the establishment of not only military but also social infrastructure of the Step airfield” and military town located in Zabaikalsky Krai, where the separate Su-25 attack aviation regiment will be deployed. The Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name: […]
Force projection: Denmark figuring out its best horse
Strategic changes are like earthquakes: they slowly build and prepare for years, crack a new situation and then go resting for a few more years. But even when they are not being felt or heard, there is always something brewing, preparing a new tomorrow. Denmark is having a lot of military earthquakes, and they are […]
Ukrainian crisis and Russian policy
A year passed since the Maidan Square events in Kiev, provoked by Moscow’s henchman Yanukovych and his sponsors in the Kremlin. Those events were followed by a chain of drastic developments: annexation of the Crimea, raging of extremism and separatism in the Eastern Ukraine and then Russian military incursion into Ukraine’s mainland. Russia’s aggressive actions […]
Russian nuclear bombers buzz Guam, skirt airspace near Alaska in latest test of our air defenses
A pair of Russian long range strategic nuclear bombers flew close to the U.S. Pacific island of Guam last week (for a third time) as other bombers flew close to Alaska and Europe, according to the Defense Department. Such moves are highly provocative in nature, because its understood that these aircraft can carry nuclear weapons. The strategic bombers […]
Russian military doctrine is “defensive” in nature
On December 19, 2014 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in an expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry Board. In his opening remarks at the meeting, the President outlined the country’s defense priorities for 2015. PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Colleagues, We are holding this Board meeting at the new National Defense Control Centre. […]
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