Since the beginning of the new millennium, Europe has been able to experience a prolonged period of peace, which, however, ended abruptly with the events in 2014 on the Crimean peninsula. The Russian armed forces used an unusual form of warfare here, which aroused a great deal of interest, especially among Western militaries. In security policy and military discussions, this is often referred to as the Gerasimov Doctrine or Hybrid War.
Normative military concepts for preparing and waging war are, however, only the implementation of a political will to realise concrete goals. In particular, politics uses the ideas of individual philosophers or certain intellectual currents to legitimise them. An analysis in this book of the above interaction suggests that a causality between philosophical currents and the use of armed forces both existed in the Soviet Union and continues to exist in the Russian Federation. The relevance of the developments in the history of ideas with their impact on military thinking in the areas of military doctrine, military strategy and operational art is therefore examined in more detail in an interdisciplinary manner, from a state philosophy, security policy and military science perspective. Finally, this investigation reveals that three different forms of warfare have emerged in the Soviet and Russian military: The warfare of defeat, of fatigue and of control.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Riemer, Pascal
Title
Von der russischen Kriegskunst. Eine Untersuchung der dialektischen Zusammenhänge von Staatsidee und Militärwesen am Beispiel der Sowjetunion und der Russischen Föderation
