Russian Topol inter-continental ballistic missiles are pictured during a rehearsal for the nation's annual May 9 Victory Day parade (file photo)From The Small Wars Journal:
Small Wars Journal has featured the U.S. Army’s new Capstone Concept, the Army’s top-level doctrine for how it will prepare for conflict over the next two decades. The Army Capstone Concept calls for full-spectrum capability. But it also emphasizes the need for “high touch” skills, the language, cultural, historical, population, and personal skills required to be effective in low-intensity and irregular warfare environments.
It seems as if Russia’s military doctrine is going in exactly the opposite direction, if a recent article from Defense News is any indication. Some excerpts:
Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the powerful security council, said the conditions under which Russia could resort to atomic weapons are being reworked in the main strategy document and will be reviewed by President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year.Read more ....
My Comment: How times have changed. I also remember Nato's policy (25 years ago) of keeping a large nuclear force in Europe to deter any possible large scale invasion of Soviet tanks and soldiers. Today .... that conventional army is just a shell of what it once was, and will have problems even meeting their minimum requirements of defending Russia let alone contemplating invading a major European country.
I will disagree that it is a Bush doctrine on steroids .... it is not .... it is a uniquely Russian doctrine that is still being defined.
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