Development of Russia’s Strategic Deterrent Forces in the 1990s
Kopaev Mikhail Yur’evich, Gorbunov Oleg Alekseevich
N. E. Zhukovsky and Y. A. Gagarin Air Force Academy
Submitted: 10.01.2021
Abstract. The research objectives are as follows: to reveal causes of structural and organizational reform of the Russian Army in the 1990s and to analyse efficiency of its realization. Scientific originality of the study involves a comprehensive analysis of the strategic deterrence conception in the context of Russia’s national security in the mentioned period. The research findings are as follows: the authors prove that the reform was initially aimed to improve control over the Strategic Forces during dissolution of the Soviet Army, but then the objectives changed, and organizational transformations served the interests of the top military commanders. The reform failed due to political and socio-economic instability of the 1990s.
Key words and phrases: военная реформа, организационно-штатная структура, постсоветский период, теория сдерживания, military reform, organizational and staff structure, post-Soviet period, deterrence conception
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