The New Face of Russia’s Military

Q4 Social Sciences

Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review Pub Date : 2015-12-01 DOI:10.1515/LASR-2015-0006

Daivis Petraitis

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Abstract

Abstract Back in 2008 a majority of experts tended to take Russia’s military reform as a potential failure and an adventurist step by the Russian political leadership. At that time proclamations about its fast failure were quite popular, but today a majority accepts that the prognosis of failure was premature. In actual fact, today it is becoming evident that the reform is not only succeeding but is already starting to affect the entire state’s military system. The actions of the reformed Russian armed forces in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, a strong willingness to continue with changes in their defense forces, and an extension of the reform into other state institutions show that the Russian political leadership is dedicated to finish what has been started and there are no signs of any changes in course. All this raises the following questions: why is Russia ready to sacrifice huge resources and to go to such effort to create an essentially new military and to create an effective mechanism to run the state in wartime, and what situation would be the most suitable for the use of those assets.

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俄罗斯军队的新面孔

早在2008年，大多数专家就倾向于认为俄罗斯的军事改革是一个潜在的失败，是俄罗斯政治领导层的冒险主义举措。当时，关于它的快速失败的宣告相当流行，但今天，大多数人接受了失败的预测是不成熟的。事实上，今天很明显，改革不仅取得了成功，而且已经开始影响到整个国家的军事系统。改革后的俄罗斯武装力量在克里米亚和乌克兰东部的行动，继续改革国防力量的强烈意愿，以及将改革扩展到其他国家机构，都表明俄罗斯政治领导层致力于完成已经开始的工作，而且没有迹象表明进程会发生任何变化。所有这些都提出了以下问题:为什么俄罗斯准备牺牲大量资源，并如此努力地建立一支本质上全新的军队，并建立一个有效的机制，在战时管理国家，什么情况下最适合使用这些资产。

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Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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0.60

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36 weeks

期刊介绍： Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review is a bilingual (Lithuanian and English), peer reviewed scholarly magazine that is published once per year by the Strategic Research Center of the Military Academy of Lithuania in cooperation with Vilnius University (Institute of International Relations and Political Science) and Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Political Science and Diplomacy Department). The journal focuses on the global, regional and national security problematique which directly or indirectly influence security and defense issues of Lithuania, the Baltic states and region around. The Review aims to sustain high profile scientific publications delivering rigorous analytical insights into security and defence problematique ofn the region and to be ranked as a regular and high-quality academic periodical. The Review reaches out for academic community and political practitioners and offer ample opportunities for scholarly visibility and potential impact.