Posted on 07/18/2010 12:06:39 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Recently, Roger McDermott, a regular contributor to this publication, offered an excellent overview of the operational-strategic exercise being conducted in Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East by the Russian armed forces (EDM, July 6). McDermott correctly pointed to the role of the exercise in testing concepts associated with the “new look” reforms and called attention to the exercise’s testing the speed of deployment of brigades, their combat readiness, and capacity to engage in combined-arms combat in an air/land battle, and their logistical support to sustain combat actions. He also noted that while the scenario dealt with a wide range of combat actions, including anti-piracy to counter-terrorism, the senior military leadership, including the Chief of the General Staff (CGS), Army-General Nikolai Makarov, stated that the opponent was hypothetical and was not aimed against “any one country or bloc.” McDermott, however, concluded that the actual objective of the exercise was a test of the defenses of Siberia and the Far East from attack by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). McDermott raised the very threat that dare not speak its name. To understand this silence, one needs to examine the political-military context of this exercise.
Anyone involved in the construction of a scenario for a war game or exercise knows that the creation of the documents for conducting such operational-strategic exercise involves formulating a road to war, which brings about conflict between the contending sides, usually labeled “red” and “blue” in the case of Russian war games (with “blue” being the color associated with the aggressor forces against which Russian “red” forces defend). In the case of Vostok 2010, Russian forces involved in the exercise faced a “hypothetical opponent” [uslovnyi protivnik].
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I suspect the Russian Federation would be at a serious handicap these days.
I am wondering which nation will start human cloning first - Russia or Japan.
Russia
Not curious. Just wise and rational, like Americans who are aware of the importance of their territories and borders and property to be lost if not recognized by the govt. and PROTECTED.
Nothing new. Nixon, during his presidency, supposedly was asked by the soviets to team up the US with them in a pre-emptive attack on China, and the soviets already had deployed forward nuclear forces and were ready to go.
It’s in one of Nixon’s books, I forget which one.
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