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RSI will be joined by Andrew Monaghan, Lester Grau, and Carl Van Dyke to discuss Russia Research Network's latest RSI sponsored research "The Svechin Doctrine: Russian Military Strategy for the 2020s." Taking as its starting point the analytical method of Alexander Svechin, one of the most prominent Russian soldier-theorists, and referred to in the Russian military debate as a “Russian Clausewitz”, this session will offer a fresh way to interpret the development of Russian military strategy as we look ahead into the mid-2020s. It will examine persistent core questions that lie at the heart of Russian military strategy, including the role of politics and the state, and debates over differing approaches of “destruction” and “attrition”. In so doing, it will provide the means with which to assess continuity and change, consequences and lessons, and what Moscow’s shift to a larger armed force means for the US and its allies.
Panelists
Dr Andrew Monaghan - Director of the Russia Research Network Ltd, London, Dr Monaghan has written extensively on Russian grand strategy, Russian domestic politics and the Russian way in war, and he is the author of several books, including Dealing with the Russians (2019). His latest, Russian Grand Strategy in an Era of Global Power Competition, is recently published (2022).
Dr Lester Grau - Research Director, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. As one of the Army’s leading experts on Russia, Dr. Grau has conducted various assignments there, including collaborative research with the Russian General Staff’s Military History Institute and other officials.
Dr Carl Van Dyke - Independent scholar with +35 years academic and government experience analyzing Russian military doctrine, leadership intentions, threat assessments, future warfare concepts, strategic planning factors, and execution of theater and global military operations.