Book/Printed Material Russian grand strategy : rhetoric and reality

Title

• Russian grand strategy : rhetoric and reality

Summary

• The study of a state's grand strategy can provide key insights into the direction of its foreign policy and its responses to national security challenges. Understanding Russia's grand strategy therefore can help U.S. decisionmakers both avoid strategic surprise by anticipating Moscow's actions and reactions and assess the depth and nature of potential conflicts between Russia and the United States. Because grand strategy is more than a collection of proclaimed foreign policy goals, a country's grand strategy must be understood through both a study of key documents and statements and a close empirical analysis of patterns of behavior. The authors of this report thus both describe Russia's declared grand strategy and test key elements of it against the actions of the Russian state. The authors performed an exhaustive review of official Russian strategy documents and statements from its leaders and policymakers and conducted interviews in Moscow. Using the information gathered, the authors outlined the broad contours of Russian grand strategy. They then chose six key elements of Russia's stated grand strategy for closer examination: the linkage between internal and external threats, the nature of Russia's role in its immediate neighborhood, concepts about the future of warfare, expeditionary requirements for Russia's military, Moscow's objectives vis-à-vis the West, and Russia's declared prioritization of engagement with non-Western powers. The authors tested each of these elements against empirical evidence about corresponding behaviors of the state. From this analysis, they suggest implications and considerations for U.S. policymakers, both in the U.S. Army and in the broader national security decisionmaking sphere.

Names

• Charap, Samuel, 1980- author
• Massicot, Dara, author
• Priebe, Miranda, author
• Demus, Alyssa, author
• Reach, Clint, author
• Stalczynski, Mark, author
• Han, Eugeniu, author
• Davis, Lynn E. (Lynn Etheridge), 1943- author
• Arroyo Center
• Rand Corporation
• United States. Army

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Arroyo Center, [2021]

Contents

• Introduction -- A Framework for Analysis of Russia's Grand Strategy -- Russia's Stated Grand Strategy -- Strategy Element: Integrated Threats Require an Integrated Response -- Strategy Element: Russia as Regional Leader -- Strategy Element: Focus on Non-Contact Warfare -- Strategy Element: Limited Expeditionary Ambitions -- Strategy Element: Selective Cooperation and Selective Pushback with the West -- Strategy Element: Rebalance Away from the West -- Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix A: National Security, Defense, and Federal Budget Trends -- Appendix B: Data on State-Directed Political and Economic Engagement.

Headings

• -  Geopolitics--Russia (Federation)
• -  Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Forecasting
• -  Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--History
• -  Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--21st century
• -  Diplomatic relations
• -  Geopolitics
• -  Politics and government
• -  Russia (Federation)
• -  2000-2099

Genre

• History

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the United States Army."
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xxiv, 219 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• JZ1616

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739197

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739197

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739197

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