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Yesterday, I participated in a Marshall Center panel on Russian and Chinese naval power. My colleague Graeme Herd put together the following summary of the discussion… GPCSS#2, November 16, 202...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/summary-of-russia-china-naval-power-discussion/

One more in the series of policy briefs on Russian strategic culture and leadership decision-making, written for a collaborative project organized by the Marshall Center with support from the Rus...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/russias-naval-strategy-in-the-mediterranean/

New analytical article up at War on the Rocks, co-authored with Kasey Stricklin. Here’s a preview of the introduction. It is widely acknowledged that general and flag officers are important act...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/a-guide-to-becoming-an-admiral-in-the-russian-navy/

Michael Kofman and I published a short analysis of the naval battle in the Kerch Strait on the Monkey Cage. Here’s a sampler. The Nov. 25 skirmish between Russian Border Guard and Ukrainian n...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/the-kerch-strait-naval-battle-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

New short article up on War on the Rocks. Here’s a preview…. Last summer, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia will continue to strengthen its forces around the Black Sea...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/is-a-new-russian-black-sea-fleet-coming-or-is-it-here/

I have a new article up on War on the Rocks. Here’s a preview. ———— The Russian Navy is keen on showy demonstrations of strength. Just in the last week, it has begun an exercise with th...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/russias-new-and-unrealistic-naval-doctrine/

Every two years, St. Petersburg hosts a major naval salon, where Russian and foreign shipbuilders come to show off their latest products. Representatives of the Russian Navy also attend, and ofte...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/what-we-learned-from-the-russian-naval-salon-%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BC%D1%81-2017/

There have long been reports that the ongoing delays with the commissioning of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate have to do with defects in its air defense systems. These were thought to be primarily ...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/russian-naval-air-defense-in-trouble/

In April 2016, I published a short article in the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief discussing the role of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet post-Crimea annexation. Here’s the text, as usual with no edits ...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/black-sea-fleet-projects-power-westwards/

In the last 24 hours, more information has come out on yesterday’s purge of the Baltic Fleet command structure. First of all, the size of the purge is unprecedented, with around 50 high ranking...

https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/more-details-on-baltic-fleet-shakeup/