1st Edition

Russian Military Reform, 1992-2002

Edited By Anne C. Aldis, Roger N. McDermott Copyright 2004
360 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

Military reform has featured prominently on the agenda of many countries since the end of the Cold War necessitated a re-evaluation of the strategic role of the armed forces, and nowhere more publicly than in Russia. Not since the 1920s have the Russian Armed Forces undergone such fundamental change. President Boris Yeltsin and his successor Vladimir Putin have both grappled with the issue,... Read more
Notes on Contributors, Series Editor’s Preface, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, PART I: POLICY, POLITICS AND SOCIETY, PART II: FORCE STRUCTURE, PART III: EXPERIENCE, PART IV: WHERE TO?, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Roger N. McDermott is an Honourary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury. He specialises in Russian and Central Asian defence and security. The Jane's Group have published a number of his papers.

Anne C. Aldis is Research Manager at the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Surrey where she has been an active analyst and facilitator of the processes of transformation taking place in the states of Central and Eastern Europe. For many years she has edited the centre's publications.

'The excellent core essays in Russian Military Reform focus on the problems confronting the respective branches of the demoralised forces of the Russian Federation.' - International Affairs