military doctrine
military personnel
military-industrial complex
spetsnaz
sphere of influence, perceived
Stalin, Joseph
State Anti-Drug Committee
State Armament Programme 2011–25
State Courier Service
State Fire Service
status concerns
see also great power status
stealth technology
Stent, Angela
strategic rocket forces
strategic thought
asymmetric and ‘indirect’ approaches to warfare
Cold War conservatism
‘hard military power’, continuing exercise of
history of
military doctrines (1993–2014)
modernist strand
post-Soviet era
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
revolutionary strand
traditionalist strand
see also hybrid warfare
Suny, Ronald
Sussex, Matthew
Sweden
Syria
Assad regime, Russian support for
ceasefire
counterterrorism operations
International Syria Support Group
‘proxy US-Russian conflict’
Russian diplomatic efforts
Russian intervention
Russian material and strategic interests
T
Tagliavini report
Tajikistan
acceptance of Russian military involvement
Afghan border security
civil war
Taliban
tanks
Tartus
Taylor, Brian
technology
Military-Technical Revolution
obsolescent equipment
persistent problems
technological renewal
technology gap
territorial expansion
neo-imperial
new challenges and costs, creation of
Novorossiya (New Russia), possibility of
Russian Empire
Soviet
unlikelihood of further expansion
see also Crimea, annexation of
terrorism and counter-terrorism
Beslan hostage crisis (2004)
Moscow theatre hostage crisis (2002)
National Counterterrorism Committee
problems of inter-agency coordination
war on terrorism
Thomas, Timothy
Thornton, Rod
threat perceptions
arms race, renewed
Baltic States, Russian incursion into
fears of a militarily resurgent Russia
‘hybrid threats’
liberal international order, threat to
NATO enlargement
‘new Cold War’ threat
Russian territorial expansion
sovereignty, perceived Western threats to undermine
‘traditional’
Western ‘information influence’
Tolz, Vera
Torjesen, Stina
Transnistria
Trenin, Dmitri
tsarist Russia
Tskhinvali
TU-95 bombers
U
Ukraine
defence industry
EU association agreement, offer of
humanitarian aid to
hybrid warfare strategies
military assets, disputed
Orange Revolution
Russian coercive economic diplomacy
Russian military actions in
strategic importance of
see also Crimea; Donbas
United Kingdom
defence budget
military reform
United Nations (UN)
peacekeeping operations
Responsibility to Protect
Russian membership
Security Council
Strategic Command
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNPROFOR
United States
current military strength
defence spending
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Gulf War (1991)
military reform
National Guard
perceived hegemony
presidential elections (2016)
strategic thought
‘two-war’ standard (size of military)
war on terrorism
see also Cold War
Uzbekistan
V
Vendil Pallin, Carolina
Vympel
W
Wallander, Celeste
war on terrorism
Russian support for
Warsaw Pact
Westerlund, Frederik
Western ‘information influence’
Westphalian sovereignty
Wilson, Damon
Wilson Rowe, Elana
World Food Programme (WFP)
Y
Yanukovich, Viktor
Yeltsin, Boris
consolidation of own political power
and dismantling of KGB
divide-and-rule strategy
and the force structures
fragmentation of security apparatus
and great power status
and the Kosovo War
and the military
and multilateralism
on responsibility towards the CIS
Z
Zatsepin, Vasily
Ziegler, Charles
Zolotov, Viktor
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