The Jamestown Foundation mourns the loss of Dr. Jacob W. Kipp, a noted expert on the Russian, Soviet and Tsarist militaries, who passed away on October 27, 2021. Dr. Kipp was a contributor to Eurasia Daily Monitor and, for years, provided extensive intellectual and advisory support to Jamestown’s analysis of the Russian Armed Forces. In 2013, he wrote an elucidating report on that year’s …
Military Reform and Militarism in Russia
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With tensions between Russia and the West at an all-time high, Moscow appears to be preparing for large-scale war. Now more than ever, there is an increased need to understand the past and future directions of Russian military reform and what they mean for NATO.
In
Military Reform and Militarism in Russia, Aleksandr Golts takes a hard look at the evolution of the Russian military, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to its present involvement in wars in eastern Ukraine and Syria. Golts focuses on the evolution of military reform inside Russia since 2005; additionally, he examines the new phenomenon of Russian militarism and its origins in a Russian system that is hostile to both civilian control as well as civil society. The book reaches an important milestone in new works on Russian security in the age of Putin by explaining why Russian society has supported the concept of militarism in Russia.