Charles Dick examines the reform and modernization of Russia’s military and argues that the new force structure enables high readiness for short warning, possibly complex conflicts in former Soviet and satellite countries.
About the author
Charles Dick has more than 40 years’ expertise in the workings of the Soviet and Russian military, and the development of the theory and practice of military operational art, first as an intelligence officer, and subsequently as a senior lecturer – and then head – of the Soviet (later Conflict) Studies Research Centre. He is the author of a comparative two-volume study of the Anglo-American and Soviet conduct of operations in the summer of 1944: From Victory to Stalemate and From Defeat to Victory, published in 2016 by the University Press of Kansas.