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Europe’s Nuclear-Disarmament Delusion – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in March 24th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Europe, Nuclear, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Removing American nukes from European soil won’t make the Continent safer.
The underreported and underappreciated fact is that, since the end of the Cold War, Russian military doctrine has grown more, not less, reliant on nuclear forces.There is a logic to this that we in the West should understand. America’s early Cold War doctrine of “massive [...]

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NTI: Global Security Newswire – Russia Drills for Nuclear War

Posted by Matt in March 10th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Missiles, Russia, War, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Russia’s strategic missile forces today launched a three-day drill expected to simulate the use of nuclear weapons, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, Sept. 9, 2009).
Russian military personnel would follow procedures in the nation’s recently adopted military doctrine for dealing with nuclear and conventional conflict, said strategic missile forces spokesman Col. Vadim Koval (see GSN, Feb. [...]

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Is Russia adopting nuke 1st strike policy?

Posted by Matt in February 26th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Security experts believe Russia has adopted a secret policy for the possible use of first-strike nuclear weapons to deter “conventional aggression,” according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a new Russian military doctrine, and while publicizing it, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn [...]

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Russia’s Military Doctrine: New Dangers Appear – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in February 22nd, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

In the immediate aftermath of President Dmitry Medvedev signing the new Russian military doctrine most attention focused on the fact that a first preemptive nuclear strike was not mentioned in the document and on the attention given to NATO as the chief source of “danger” to the security of the Russian Federation. Comments by NATO’s [...]

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Russian doctrine does not reflect real world: NATO | Reuters

Posted by Matt in February 6th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Europe, Russia, , , , , , , , , ,

The Russian doctrine reflects the real world just fine. It’s NATO that is living in another world.
Russia is the enemy of the West, including NATO. That means NATO is the enemy of Russia. Enough said.
NATO said on Saturday a new Russian military doctrine identifying NATO expansion as a threat did not reflect the real world [...]

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Medvedev signs Russia’s military doctrine – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The document says Russia reserves the right to use nuclear force in response to a nuclear attack or one of equivalent magnitude.
Russia’s conventional military forces are in dilapidated shape, increasing Moscow’s dependence on its Cold War-era nuclear arsenals.
Medvedev signs Russia’s military doctrine – washingtonpost.com

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Russian Nuclear First Use: a Case of Self-Defeating Exaggeration? – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

… He asserted that this element of the draft military doctrine revealed Russia to be “a power with [an inferiority] complex,” acknowledging the decline in Russian conventional military capabilities and the appearance of precision-strike means in the United States against which Russia has no conventional defense, and linked the ensuing declaration of nuclear first use [...]

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New Russian Military Doctrine to Allow Preemptive Nuclear Strike : The Other Russia

Posted by Matt in November 23rd, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , ,

Russia may carry out a preemptive nuclear strike in a situation critical to its national security, according to a revamped version of Russia’s military doctrine that will be published by the end of the year.
In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta on November 20, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said that the doctrine will now provide [...]

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Would Russia really use nuclear weapons against neighbors?

Posted by Matt in November 19th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Nuclear, Russia, , , , , , , , ,

The Kremlin is drafting a new military doctrine, due by year’s end, that may authorize the armed forces to use nuclear weapons not only to counter a massive conventional attack but even to launch a preemptive strike against a small regional adversary – such as neighboring Georgia or Ukraine – that might be deemed a [...]

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Who should fear Russia’s new military doctrine? | ”RIA Novosti’ newswire

Posted by Matt in October 24th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Military, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Russia’s new military doctrine stipulates the use of preemptive nuclear strikes. Effectively, it can be used when and where necessary, and against any opponent.
In the past they have reserved the use of preemptive nuclear strikes to protect themselves and their allies,which includes Syria.
Who should fear Russia’s new military doctrine? Everyone.
Russia’s new military doctrine, which is [...]

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