Military Rescue Units
military revival
capabilities, overestimation of
contextualized understanding of, necessity for
defensive rationale
domestic dimension
fears of a militarily resurgent Russia
foreign policy objective
post-Soviet reforms
prospects and limits of
reasons for
status concerns and
strategic and operational developments
timing of
Western attitudes and responses to
see also modernization programme (2008)
military-industrial complex
Military-Technical Revolution
Milosevic, Slobodan
Ministry for Civil Defence and Emergency Situations (MChS)
emergency response operations
humanitarian operations
international activities
international approval of
military element
multilateral military cooperation
peacekeeping activities
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
law-enforcement element
marginal position
militarized element
Ministry of Justice (Miniust)
modernization programme (2008)
affordability
command structures, streamlining
financial constraints
financial resources see defence budgets
longer-term goals
obstacles to
professionalization of the armed forces
rapid reaction forces
rearmament programme
strategic thought
technological modernization
Moldova
see also Transnistria
Monaghan, Andrew
Morozov, Viatcheslav
Moscow Olympics (1980)
Moscow theatre hostage crisis (2002)
multilateralism
balance of power multilateralism
contested views on
cooperation basis
force structures and
and foreign policy making
great-power multilateralism
military-to-military cooperation
multipolarity context
opposition basis
peacekeeping operations
security cooperation
tensions
multipolarity
N
Napoeonic France
National Counterterrorism Committee
National Defence Control Centre
National Guard see Federal National Guard Service of the Russian Federation (FSNG)
NATO
Civil Emergency Planning
current military strength
eastwards enlargement
increase in defence spending
Northern Distribution Network
Operation Allied Force
Russia military revival, response to
Russian threat perceptions of
Russia–NATO cooperation
Russia–NATO tensions
NATO–Russia Council (NRC)
suspension of
natural and man-made disasters
navy
‘blue water’ navy ambition
coastal protection
funding
limited power projection capabilities
new and upgraded vessels
post-Soviet decline
Nazi Germany
‘near abroad’, concept of
see also Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Nerenieks, Karl
network-centric warfare
Neumann, Iver
Nicholas I
Nicholas II
Nikitin, Alexander
Nikolsky, Aleksei
9/11 attacks
Nizhnii Novgorod
non-interference, principle of
non-military tools of warfare
Norberg, Johan
normalization of relations
Normandy format
North Ossetia
Norway
armed forces
Novorossiya (New Russia)
nuclear capabilities and deterrence
O
oil and gas prices
Okhrana company
OMON forces
Operation Allied Force
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Orlov, Igor
Oxenstierna, Susanne
P
PAK-FA fighter
Pakistan
Panetta, Leon
Partnership for Peace
peacekeeping operations
CIS
force structures and
United Nations
Peter the Great
Petrov, Nikolay
police service
Polish–Soviet War
power ministries see force structures
Presidential Directorate for Administrative Affairs
Presidential Guards Regiment
Presidential Protection Service (SBP)
prison service
procurement plans
legacy systems
State Armament Programme 2011–25
psychological operations
Pukhov, Ruslan
Putin, Vladimir
Assad, support of
on the collapse of the Soviet Union
on cooperation with NATO
Crimea speech
director of FSB
and the force structures
foreign policy rhetoric
on humanitarian interventions
KGB career background
military reform policies
and multilateralism
on NATO enlargement
seeks to restore great power status
on sovereignty
State of the Nation speeches
Q
quasi-military organizations
see also force structures
R
rapid reaction forces
Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
rearmament programme
Red Army victories
regime change, externally driven
regime stability see domestic order and regime stability
research and development (R&D)
revanchism
revolution (1905)
revolution (1917)
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
Rice, Condoleezza
Rieber, Alfred J.
Rumer, Eugene
Russian Empire
Russian Federation, emergence of
Russian Rescue Corps
Russo–Japanese War (1904–5)
Russo–Turkish War (1877–8)
Rutland, Peter
Rutskoi, Aleksandr
S
Saakashvili, Mikheil
Saudi Arabia
Saunders, Paul J.
Scaparrotti, General Curtis
Scheipers, Sibylle
Second World War
security
human-centred focus
internal see force structures
multilateral security cooperation
‘new security challenges’
post-Soviet
Yeltsin era
security apparatus see force structures
Sendstad, Cecile
Serbia
NATO airstrikes
Seton-Watson, Hugh
Sevastopol
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Shanghai Forum
Shearman, Peter
Shevtsova, Lilia
Shirreff, General Alexander Richard
Shlykov, Vitalii
Shoigu, Sergei
silovye struktury
silovye vedomstva
Siluanov, Anton
‘sixth-generation warfare’
Slipchenko, Vladimir
small wars
SOBR forces
social media, Kremlin use of
South Ossetia
sovereignty
contested concept
defence of
ethnic conflicts and
foreign policy and
internal and external dimensions
perceived Western efforts to undermine
strong military as requirement for
Westphalian
Soviet Union
dissolution of
early military weakness
great power status
imperialist foreign policy