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The start of the 21st century has been characterized by significant sociopolitical changes, leading to a challenging transformation of the global geopolitical landscape. The bipolar model, consisting of the USSR and the US, has ceased to exist. Currently, a new model is emerging, yet it still lacks stability and remains incomplete.
NG: Medvedev being used to float radical goals for Ukraine war with public.
This paper considers the role and function of military space assets during current and prospective stages of their development, the prerequisites for the deployment of space combat systems, the classification of space weapons, and a definition of space as a theater of military operations. The authors present their views on specific features of the tactics of the Military Space Forces (MSF) and the continuity of provisions of MSF tactics in relation to General Tactics of the Armed Forces.
Arbatova: Baltic region remains a barometer for state of Russia-West relations.
Expert Fyodorov: Despite Zaluzhny’s admission of “stalemate,” shared need to rebuild armies, Russia, Ukraine still reject key concessions for peace – that Russia win land, Ukraine join NATO.
This article notes that Washington and Tokyo intend to continue hindering Taiwan’s reunification with Mainland China, which would greatly strengthen Beijing’s position in the Pacific Ocean. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States notably stepped up its support for Taiwan, in both expanding its official ties with Taipei and supplying it with American arms.
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.
Ekspert: Pashinyan must now confront the wrath of Armenians for letting Karabakh go, Russia will need to determine a way to protect its interests in the South Caucasus.
Karpovich: Pashinyan lacked emotional ties to Karabakh, viewed region as a bargaining chip to use with west; Russia will work with Azerbaijan to ensure respect for people left.
THIRTY-TWO years ago, an event took place that American political scientist Francis Fukuyama claimed marked the “end of history.” It was argued that the disappearance of the Soviet Union from the world political scene and the end of the Soviet socialist project meant that there was no socioeconomic alternative to a liberal capitalist world order […]