The dynamics of Russia’s defence policy
Pavel Luzin discusses the interconnections between military expenditures, military education, exercises in Belarus and Russia’s political system
Military Industrial Complex
Fifth-generation fighter jets
Pavel Luzin on Sukhoi Su-57 and Su-75 ‘Checkmate’ fighters in the political and economic context
Russian diesel-electric submarines: A classic balance of powers
Pavel Luzin on how Moscow’s real capabilities impact its maritime ambitions
Russia’s Myanmar Gambit
Ivan U. Klyszcz takes stock of Russia’s reactions to the Myanmar coup and what the ongoing crisis has brought to its Southeast Asia diplomacy
Artificial intelligence in the Russian army
Pavel Luzin on the challenges and idiosyncrasies of the development of advanced military command-and-control systems in Russia
Russia’s military in the 2020s
Pavel Luzin on the challenges the Russian defence industry will face in the 2020s
Sanctions and the Russian defence industry
Pavel Luzin on Moscow’s worries about the Western sanctions
So different, but in some ways so similar
Kirill Shamiev on civil-military relations in the USA and Russia
Price and prospects of the military space programme
Pavel Luzin on the development trends around the Russian military satellite constellation
Russia’s BattleBots
Pavel Luzin looks at the Russian military’s strides toward robotization, and finds a few missteps
Russia’s armed forces under Gerasimov, the man without a doctrine
Michael Kofman on salient trends in Russian military strategy and doctrinal thought, as opposed to the mythical Gerasimov Doctrine