FPRI: Russian Concepts of Future Warfare
Date: June 28th, 2022 at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EDT Platform: Cisco Webex Events
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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.
Details
Chris Miller and Rob Lee from the Foreign Policy Research Institute will provide insights from ongoing research on Russian concepts of future warfare in the context of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
Biographies
Chris Miller
Title: Director, FPRI Eurasia Program Affiliation: Professor of International History, Tufts University
Chris Miller is the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program and 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 (2016).
Chris received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from Harvard University.
Rob Lee
Title: Senior Fellow Affiliation: FPRI Eurasia Program
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.
Rob 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.