Book Review by Mikhail Tsypkin of The Russian Military: Power and Policy, edited by Steven E. Miller and Dmitri V. Trenin
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Authors
Tsypkin, Mikhail
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Date of Issue
2004
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MIT Press
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Abstract
The Russian military largely went below the radar of Western interest after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. More than a decade after the
creation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, they have become again the object of interest for scholars – this time, both Western and
Russian, as demonstrated by the reviewed volume, whose editors assembled a group of extraordinarily knowledgeable experts from Russia and the
West. In his introduction, Steven Miller explains that the purpose this study has been to “assess the military that Russia now possesses.” He notes
that despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s defense policy “has enormous implications for … global security, ” because it is a major
power in Eurasia and global military power. Moreover, it is the only of the post-Soviet states that has “residual superpower mindset.”
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Book Review
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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1 p.
Citation
M.Tsypkin, "The Russian Military: Power and Policy, Cambridge" (2004), pp. 1
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.