GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Military-Political Aspects of Cooperation Between Russia and Kazakhstan on Countering Terrorism and Other Transnational ThreatsV.I. Tokhmyakov, B.S. Abzhanov Ukraine-NATO: An Anti-Russia Project (Read this article online for FREE)V.P. Baranov “War” and “Armed Conflict”: Similarities and DifferencesA.I. Malyshev, Yu.F. Pivovarov, V.Yu. Khakhalev MILITARY ART The Increasing Importance of Preemptive Actions Against the AdversaryV.V. […]
Wars that are a continuation of politics by states have practically always been waged according to special rules of warfare, by a specially trained state organization: the army. Analysis of the international situation that has evolved lately shows that the military conflicts occurring in the world are fundamentally different from the classical war type. New-type conflicts lack the uniformity of organized force traditionally represented by the state. Instead, they feature nonstate entities as initiators of organized action and the employment of nonmilitary methods of confrontation along with traditional military methods.
THE APPROACHING 75th anniversary of the end of World War II gave a new lease of life to the so-called “memory wars.” On September 19, 2019, the European Parliament passed a resolution “On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe”1 that, among other things, shifted the burden of equal responsibility for World War […]
This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Deterrence and Coercion in the Hybrid Warfare StrategyA.A. Bartosh The World Geopolitical Situation and Its Influence on the Regulatory and Legal Framework of Preparing Russia’s Population for DefenseA.G. Likhonosov, I.V. Vasilyev Trends in Threats to the Military Security of the Russian FederationD.A. Pavlov, V.Yu. Sizov MILITARY ART On the Detection of Decoy […]
Wars that are a continuation of politics by states have practically always been waged according to special rules of warfare, by a specially trained state organization: the army. Analysis of the international situation that has evolved lately shows that the military conflicts occurring in the world are fundamentally different from the classical war type. New-type conflicts lack the uniformity of organized force traditionally represented by the state. Instead, they feature nonstate entities as initiators of organized action and the employment of nonmilitary methods of confrontation along with traditional military methods.
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IN HIS classic book On War, the eminent 19th century German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz generalized the experience of the Napoleonic wars: “The art of war … makes War of all branches of human activity the most like a gambling game.”1 It seems that since the time when Clausewitz defined war as “the continuation […]
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ON DECEMBER 8, 1991, the heads of three Union republics – Boris Yeltsin (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), Leonid Kravchuk (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), and Stanislav Shushkevich (Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic) – signed the Belavezha Accords, dissolving the Soviet Union.1 That document was unprecedented in terms of international practice and its socioeconomic consequences for the once […]