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Russian Military Reform A Failed Exercise in Defence Decision Making
1. The Kremlin and Military Reform 2. The Debate on Russian Military Reform 3. Defence Decision Making 4. Russian Military Reform: Definitions and Goals 5. The Yeltsin Era: Virtual Reform 6. Enter Putin: The Obsession with the Power Vertical Conclusion: Presidential Will, Know-How and Perseverance
Biography
Carolina Vendil Pallin is Deputy Research Director and head of the Russia Project at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and has authored a number of publications on Russian domestic, security and military policy.
"The book contains interesting insights into the modern Russian military. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels." -- CHOICE, Sept 2009 Vol. 47 No. 01
'This is an extremely interesting, welcome, and thought provoking book that
everyone interested in defense politics in Russian should read. It presents a
conceptual framework against which the author discusses the evolution of
civil-military relations in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. In particular,
the author focuses on the process of decision-making and its relationship to
military reform]...[For a book covering the period from Yeltsin to Putin, this is one of the
best documented studies this reviewer has seen. If there is a source Pallin
has not consulted (including Russian original documents), I am not aware of
it—and that includes my own work. Anyone contemplating writing on this
topic would be well advised to consult carefully her bibliography and footnotes.
All in all, this is an outstanding book that should be on the shelf of
every college or university library.' - Dale Herspring, Kansas State University,Journal of Slavic Military Studies, vol. 22, pp. 318-19, 2009
