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Military Principles

The interim Russian military doctrine sets the primary objective for the armed forces as the prevention, early termination, and containment of military conflict through employment of peacetime standing forces. The principal areas of concern are the ter ritory and property of the Russian Federation, the areas contiguous to its borders, and the threat of nuclear attack by a foreign power.

Military operations in Chechnya are justified under the paragraph on protection of the territory and property of the Russian Federation. Justification for a continued Russian military presence in the former Central Asian republics derives from the para graph on protection of areas contiguous to Russian borders, as well as provisions of the CIS treaty (see The Geopolitical Context, this ch.).

Russia reserves the right of first use of weapons of mass destruction, which remain a primary concern of policy makers in the age of nuclear disarmament. This reservation, which is in apparent violation of the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Trea ty (NPT--see Glossary), has been retained nevertheless in response to Russia's uncertainty as to the intentions of the three neighboring states--Belarus, Kazakstan, and Ukraine--that were left with nuclear weapons after the dissolution of the Soviet Union . However, the last nuclear weapons in Kazakstan were destroyed in 1995, the last nuclear weapons left Ukraine in mid-1996, and the last nuclear weapons were scheduled to leave Belarus by the end of 1996--seemingly eliminating this rationale. Suspicion of the nuclear intentions of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO--see Glossary) is the remaining foundation for the first-use provision of the doctrine.

Military-Technical and Economic Principles

The military doctrine's treatment of the military-technical and economic foundations of the armed forces--the process of providing and maintaining modern military hardware--is the aspect that shows the greatest gap between policy and reality. The doctr ine describes a policy of preserving a military-industrial base capable of manufacturing modern military equipment in quantity. It also describes a ten- to fifteen-year research, development, testing, and evaluation cycle for new weapons. In the mid-1990s , only a very fragmentary commitment to those goals was visible in Russia's assignment of spending priorities (see Structure and Conditions, this ch.). At the very least, defense policy has delayed until after the turn of the century a large share of the acquisition costs and demands on the national industrial base that such a commitment would involve. At that point, a new military doctrine probably will address the issue of technological and economic support.

Data as of July 1996

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