| The Russian Military Into the 21st Century Contributor(s): Cimbala, Stephen J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714650803 ISBN-13: 9780714650807 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. Russia's military has been in decline since the end of the Cold War. Its fledgling democracy and struggling economy have also served as an inertial drag on military reform. Nevertheless, Russia has a strong military tradition dating back to Tsarist times, and that tradition includes World War II and Cold War achievements of the Soviet military still highly regarded by many Russians. Contributors explain the major challenges facing Russian defence and security policy with respect to possible adversaries beyond Russia's borders and within Russia herself. Russia has and will continue to have serious security problems outside of, and within, its state borders. These problems include political risings within the country, and the fragile roots of its contemporary experiment with democracy and free market economics. Unless Russia finds a way to deal with its system of addiction and corruption, it will neither reform its military nor its policy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 355.009 |
| LCCN: 00069445 |
| Series: Cass Series--Studies in Intelligence, |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.06" W x 9.3" (1.02 lbs) 240 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. It covers threats from terrorists, break away republics and threats from outside Russia's borders. The book also includes political and economic problems facing the military. |