Russian military vehicles drive down Tverskaya Street during rehearsals for the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow May 5, 2014. Vladimir Filonov / MT
Russian General Calls For Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO -- Moscow Times
A Russian general has called for Russia to revamp its military doctrine, last updated in 2010, to clearly identify the U.S. and its NATO allies as Moscow's enemy number one and spell out the conditions under which Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the 28-member military alliance, Interfax reported Wednesday.
Russia's military doctrine, a strategy document through which the government interprets military threats and crafts possible responses, is being revised in light of threats connected to the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war and the conflict in Ukraine, the deputy chief of the Kremlin's security council told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
But within the Defense Ministry there are voices calling for different priorities.
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Update #1: Russian General: Bring Back Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike Option Against NATO -- Breitbart
Update #2: Russian General Demands Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO -- Zero Hedge
My Comment: A few years ago .... no one in Moscow talked about a preemptive nuclear strike doctrine against NATO. In President Obama's first term .... that talk started to become serious. In President Obama's second term .... that talk culminated in the installation of intermediate nuclear missiles in November of 2013 in its Kaliningrad enclave that is along its border with the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As I had commented in a post yesterday .... we are still far away from the Cold War .... but the trend lines are going in the opposite (and far more dangerous) direction.
WNU,
ReplyDeleteBetter keep an eye on the Golan, the world's decided to be busy for a while.
You are reading my mind James. My next post is on the cost of the Gaza war, after that the next post is on the growing tensions on the Golan Heights.
ReplyDeleteA large enough therm-nuclear device to rate three fire extinguishers: see front of vehicle in photo.
ReplyDelete"In case of inadvertent detonation, aim extinguisher at base of explosion".
James .... your eye on detail always amazes me.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
ReplyDeleteWho's the statue of on the left?
I know this statue too well. It is only a block away from my appartment/condo in Moscow.
ReplyDeleteStatue of Vladimir Mayakovsky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky
A close up is here https://www.flickr.com/photos/paeonia1/3836687992/
"we are still far away from the Cold War"
ReplyDeleteYou´re missing the boat here. It´s a hot war you should be worried about.
Why?
In short, this time is different. Stability brings on instability. The long period of stability since the end of WWII has created all kinds of problems: 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and now the cracking of the international order. The first two indicate serious and fundamental problems in western thinking that have spread to all corners of society, like national security and nuclear forces strategy.
The Global Trends 2025 report says the international order will be completely different by 2025. Has something like this ever gone smoothly?
Right now the US is in low level conflict with China and Russia. Everyone can see that it won´t take much for that conflict to escalate. Historical probabilities of war with just one of of these countries range from 75% on up to near 100% depending on how one counts. Now there are two.
The biggest reason that this time is different is "time." Read the following article to learn more:
A System Collapse Framework for Societies - http://bit.ly/UsDFfi