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From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and
national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates
Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence),
comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of
this strategy. Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky
calls deterrence à la Russe, is one of the main tools of
Russian statecraft. Adamsky deftly describes the genealogy of the
Russian approach to coercion and highlights the cultural,
ideational, and historical factors that have shaped it in the
nuclear, conventional, and informational domains. Drawing on
extensive research on Russian strategic culture, Adamsky highlights
several empirical and theoretical peculiarities of the Russian
coercion strategy, including how this strategy relates to the war
in Ukraine. Exploring the evolution of strategic deterrence, along
with its sources and prospective avenues of development, Adamsky
provides a comprehensive intellectual history that makes it
possible to understand the deep mechanics of this Russian
stratagem, the current and prospective patterns of the Kremlin's
coercive conduct, and the implications for policymakers on both
sides of the Atlantic.
This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a
particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption.
The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine
that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character
of war. Known as the Information-Technology Revolution in Military
Affairs (IT-RMA), this innovation served as an intellectual
foundation for the US defence transformation from the 1990s
onwards. Since the mid-1990s, professional ideas generated within
the American defence milieu have been further disseminated to
military communities across the globe, with huge impact on the
conduct of warfare. With chapters written by leading scholars in
this field, this work sheds light on RMAs in general and the IT-RMA
in the US, in particular. The authors analyse how military practice
and doctrines were developed on the basis of the IT-RMA ideas, how
they were disseminated, and the implications of them in several
countries and conflicts around the world. This book will be of much
interest to students of strategic studies, defence studies, war and
technology, and security studies in general.
This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a
particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption.
The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine
that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character
of war. Known as the Information-Technology Revolution in Military
Affairs (IT-RMA), this innovation served as an intellectual
foundation for the US defence transformation from the 1990s
onwards. Since the mid-1990s, professional ideas generated within
the American defence milieu have been further disseminated to
military communities across the globe, with huge impact on the
conduct of warfare. With chapters written by leading scholars in
this field, this work sheds light on RMAs in general and the IT-RMA
in the US, in particular. The authors analyse how military practice
and doctrines were developed on the basis of the IT-RMA ideas, how
they were disseminated, and the implications of them in several
countries and conflicts around the world. This book will be of much
interest to students of strategic studies, defence studies, war and
technology, and security studies in general.
This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of
military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to
similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their
perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual
history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the
US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology
and weaponry for about a decade without reconceptualizing the
existing paradigm about the nature of warfare. Soviet 'new theory
of victory' represented a conceptualization which chronologically
preceded technological procurement. Israel was the first to utilize
the weaponry on the battlefield, but was the last to develop a
conceptual framework that acknowledged its revolutionary
implications.
Utilizing primary sources that had previously been completely
inaccessible, and borrowing methods of analysis from political
science, history, anthropology, and cognitive psychology, this book
suggests a cultural explanation for this puzzling transformation in
warfare.
"The Culture of Military Innovation" offers a systematic, thorough,
and unique analytical approach that may well be applicable in other
perplexing strategic situations. Though framed in the context of
specific historical experience, the insights of this book reveal
important implications related to conventional, subconventional,
and nonconventional security issues. It is therefore an ideal
reference work for practitioners, scholars, teachers, and students
of security studies.
Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security
decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and
academia. Yet on their own, neither rational nor cognitive schools
of decision-making analysis offer totally convincing results, and
in any case, rigorous decision analysis methodologies are rarely,
if ever, applied to the decisions of world leaders. How Do Leaders
Make Decisions?: Evidence from the East and West, Part B, the
second in a two-part volume covering a total of ten world leaders,
fills this gap by using the Applied Decision Analysis (ADA) method
to explore how figures such as Putin, Erdogan, Khaled Mashal, Mao,
and Saddam Hussein make or made major decisions of international
significance. By analysing the decisions made by key political
figures around the world, past and present, the chapters gathered
here shed light on how they are reached and what policy
implications they have for their own and other nations. The
analyses are based on traditional and contemporary theories of
foreign policy decision making, including, but not limited to, the
rational actor model, the cybernetic theory of decision,
poliheuristic theory, and various decision rules, including the
elimination-by-aspect rule and the lexicographic decision rule.
Cumulatively, what these chapters uncover is that foreign and
national security policies can be best explained by tracing the
cognitive process leaders go through in formulating and arriving at
their decisions. For its groundbreakingly rigorous methodology and
its unprecedented scope, this book and its companion book are
essential reading for students, scholars, and policymakers alike.
From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and
national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates
Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence),
comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of
this strategy. Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky
calls deterrence à la Russe, is one of the main tools of
Russian statecraft. Adamsky deftly describes the genealogy of the
Russian approach to coercion and highlights the cultural,
ideational, and historical factors that have shaped it in the
nuclear, conventional, and informational domains. Drawing on
extensive research on Russian strategic culture, Adamsky highlights
several empirical and theoretical peculiarities of the Russian
coercion strategy, including how this strategy relates to the war
in Ukraine. Exploring the evolution of strategic deterrence, along
with its sources and prospective avenues of development, Adamsky
provides a comprehensive intellectual history that makes it
possible to understand the deep mechanics of this Russian
stratagem, the current and prospective patterns of the Kremlin's
coercive conduct, and the implications for policymakers on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security
decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and
academia. This book explores how leaders such as Trump, Obama,
Netanyahu and others make decisions using the Applied Decision
Analysis (ADA) method. The chapters gathered here analyse the
decisions made by key political figures around the world, past and
present, in order to shed light on how these decisions are made and
what policy implications they have for their own and other nations.
Several chapters also focus on military decision making, including
around pivotal times in history including the second world war and
the evolution of nuclear warfare.
A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches
to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church
has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become
a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity.
This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere
more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the
priesthood has penetrated all levels of command and the Church has
positioned itself as a guardian of the state's nuclear potential.
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy considers how, since the Soviet collapse
in 1991, the Church has worked its way into the nuclear forces, the
most significant wing of one of the world's most powerful military
organizations. Dmitry Adamsky describes how the Orthodox faith has
merged with Russian national identity as the Church continues to
expand its influence on foreign and domestic politics. The Church
both legitimizes and influences Moscow's assertive national
security strategy in the twenty-first century. This book sheds
light on the role of faith in modern militaries and highlights the
implications of this phenomenon for international security.
Ultimately, Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy interrogates the implications
of the confluence of religion and security for other members of the
nuclear club, beyond Russia.
A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches
to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church
has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become
a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity.
This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere
more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the
priesthood has penetrated all levels of command and the Church has
positioned itself as a guardian of the state's nuclear potential.
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy considers how, since the Soviet collapse
in 1991, the Church has worked its way into the nuclear forces, the
most significant wing of one of the world's most powerful military
organizations. Dmitry Adamsky describes how the Orthodox faith has
merged with Russian national identity as the Church continues to
expand its influence on foreign and domestic politics. The Church
both legitimizes and influences Moscow's assertive national
security strategy in the twenty-first century. This book sheds
light on the role of faith in modern militaries and highlights the
implications of this phenomenon for international security.
Ultimately, Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy interrogates the implications
of the confluence of religion and security for other members of the
nuclear club, beyond Russia.
This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of
military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to
similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their
perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual
history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the
US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology
and weaponry for about a decade without reconceptualizing the
existing paradigm about the nature of warfare. Soviet 'new theory
of victory' represented a conceptualization which chronologically
preceded technological procurement. Israel was the first to utilize
the weaponry on the battlefield, but was the last to develop a
conceptual framework that acknowledged its revolutionary
implications.
Utilizing primary sources that had previously been completely
inaccessible, and borrowing methods of analysis from political
science, history, anthropology, and cognitive psychology, this book
suggests a cultural explanation for this puzzling transformation in
warfare.
"The Culture of Military Innovation" offers a systematic, thorough,
and unique analytical approach that may well be applicable in other
perplexing strategic situations. Though framed in the context of
specific historical experience, the insights of this book reveal
important implications related to conventional, subconventional,
and nonconventional security issues. It is therefore an ideal
reference work for practitioners, scholars, teachers, and students
of security studies.
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