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Russia to broaden nuclear strike options
Published: 14 October, 2009, 22:58
Edited: 23 June, 2010, 14:05
RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Moscow : A Russian Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile drives through Red Square during the nation's Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9, 2009 (AFP Photo / Dmitry Kostyukov)
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Russia’s new military doctrine will put more emphasis on nuclear capabilities. Moscow will be able to use nukes in small-scale conflicts and launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes.
The news comes from Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council. In an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, he said that the new document, which is now prepared to be signed into law, will have several revisions from the current version adopted in 2000.
“The current doctrine is a transitional document for the end of the 20th century,” he said. “Analysis of the strategic military situation in the world and the trends we’ll see until 2020 suggests a shift from large-scale conflicts to local wars and armed conflicts.”
Patrushev announced that Russia will see nuclear weapons as a legitimate means of war in small-scale conflicts.
“We have corrected the conditions for use of nuclear weapons to resist aggression with conventional forces not only in large-scale wars, but also in regional or even a local one,” he said.
“There is also a multiple-options provision for use of nuclear weapons depending on the situation and intentions of the potential enemy,” he added. “In a situation critical for national security, we don’t exclude a preventive nuclear strike at the aggressor.”
Russia’s NATO envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the new doctrine is based on an analysis of future threats to Russia
“The threat of a large-scale intercontinental war is no longer present,” he said. “Russia’s main threat is now coming from territorial and local conflict. So the country is developing a compact, mobile force with state-of-the-art flexible nuclear weaponry. This is similar to the path the French took under Charles de Gaulle.”
The announcement of the doctrine came during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Moscow, with nuclear non-proliferation being one of the top issues on the agenda. Clinton claims that US military doctrine does not allow the preventive use of nukes. But analysts say that over the past decade, the US has demonstrated the exact opposite.
“The United States was ready to use nuclear weapons against Iraq in 2003, and then against Iran in 2008,” said Konstantin Sivkov, the vice president of Geopolitical Science Academy. “This was clearly demonstrated through statements of high-profile military and political officials. So, saying the U.S doctrine does not directly include the use of preventive nuclear strikes is not correct.”
Russia’s revised military doctrine will be submitted to the president by the end of this year. If adopted, it will be a strong change from the military doctrine now in force. The current version allows for the use of nuclear weapons in a response to an attack with weapons of mass destruction, or a large-scale conventional aggression.
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No! language describes anything within its vocabulary, syntax and semantics, it is not limited to linearity, for that is the richness of language, it is representative, set free or contained by the gift of human thought. The proof is within your words of expression. The fourth dimension remains a one way traverse, within which you can take guidance of sail free, for circularity it is not a property of truth or vice versa. Now to keep guidance within the RT frame of reference, better to explore these avenues on a different thread, if RT can be kind enough to provide one. Because most people dislike pollution and disruption of which I am a guilty party here!
Anyone thinking of using limited nuclear weapons is either an idiot or is living in a fantasy world. Once we slip down the nuclear usage, the aggression will worsen and eventually lead to strategic nuclear usage. Maybe the future of Russia is with Nato as an ally rather than as an enemy. That dialectic is finished anyways. The cold war ended that dialectic why try and make it live again, the historical need for it has long passed. No Democracy in modern times has waged war against another Democracy. Historically Russia and the West have more reasons to be allies then as enemies, it makes no sense to be enemies, Stalin is no more, let's build a future together without conflict. Our conflicts are likely to be against Islamic radicals anyways. What if China becomes the next enemy of the West and Russia?