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Chris Miller and Rob Lee from the Foreign Policy Research Institute will provide insights from ongoing research on Russian concepts of future warfare in context of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
Abstract:
What does the initial stage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine suggest about Russia's concepts of future warfare? The initial phase saw Russian forces not following doctrine, not playing to their strengths, and executing a war plan that all evidence suggests was devised not by the military but by Russia's political and security services elites. Russia's initial difficulties in the war are therefore not necessarily evidence of fundamental weaknesses in Russia's military and should not be seen as a reflection of how Russia would fight future wars.
Biographies
Chris Miller is the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He is also Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His research examines Russian politics, foreign policy, and economics. His most recent book is Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia which has been reviewed in publications such as The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest and the Times Literary Supplement.He is also the author of The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, which was published in 2016. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and The American Interest. He received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from Harvard University.
Rob Lee is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He is a PhD student researching Russian defense policy at King’s College London’s War Studies Department. He is a former Marine infantry officer, Alfa Fellow, and visiting fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), a Russian think tank focused on defense policy.
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