Paul Goble
Key West, February 10 – In a marked departure from Soviet precedents, Russia’s newly approved military doctrine specifies that Russia’s "opponent is not NATO or the United States in general” but rather the extension of the activities of the two into the region around Russia and the "adjoining seas,” according to a leading Moscow military commentator.
In an article in today’s "Novaya gazeta,” Pavel Felgengauer says that the new document, required by the 1993 Constitution and replacing the military doctrine Vladimir Putin approved in 2000, represents not only a major change in Moscow’s thinking but is "better” in other ways as well (www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2010/014/18.html).
Not only is it 20 percent shorter and thus easier to read than the 2000 version, Felgengauer notes, but it is far clearer. The Putin document was a "transitional” one and ...
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