Será que os ventos ocidentais chegarão realmente às estepes russas? Questões como a profissionalização das Forças Armadas russas e o recurso a “contractors” começam a ser discutidas no que poderia culminar na “maior transformação nesse campo desde a criação do Exército Vermelho”.
Assim como os russos, estadunidenses, europeus e até chineses têm pensado em mudanças em suas Forças Armadas. E nós? Já temos Marinha, Exército e Aeronáutica preparados para a realidade do século XXI?
An Army of Dilettantes
Turning the Russian Army into a Professional Army of Contractors Will Be a Difficult (If Achievable) Task
By Martin LarysSpecial to Russia Profile 06/30/2011
Military reforms aimed at creating an army with “a new face” have been implemented in Russia since 2008. Ruslan Pukhov, the director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), wrote in a book titled “Russia’s New Army” that the current reforms “are the most important transformation of Russian military forces since the formation of the Red army following the Revolution of 1917.” The prospect of a professional army was first seriously considered after the First Chechen War, but economic conditions at that time made the creation of an army of contractors impossible. Has the time now come for Russia to take its military forces to the next level? Continuar lendo
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