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The uphill challenge of rearming Russia’s military

The 2008 war with Georgia exposed the inferiority of obsolete Russian Soviet-era armaments (photo:dpa)

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Russia

Date

20 March 2012

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Anatoly Serdyukov Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin

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Professor Stefan Hedlund

Stefan Hedlund is Professor and Research Director at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, at Uppsala University, Sweden. He trained as an economist and has specialised in Russian affairs since the final days of Leonid Brezhnev in the early ...

Russia is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in its armed forces in a bid to restore the reputation it had under the Soviet regime as a mighty military machine. The first in a three-part series on Russia’s rearmament looks at the extent of the degradation of its forces and the internal reforms the military must undergo to bring it back up to strength.

AFTER years of neglect, Russia’s large-scale re-armament of its military is now well underway, with a massive procurement budget of US$646 billion (19.4 trillion rubles).

The scale of the plans, announced in 2010 and begun last year, has alarmed some foreign observers. But con...

Contents

Military spending
Radical decline
Internal reforms
Anti-corruption signal
Officer resistance

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The implied threat of downsizing the officer corps has provoked severe resistance from within the ranks of the senior military establishment, which may still cause the whole effort to grind to a halt