{"id":4147,"date":"2018-09-12T22:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2018-09-12T22:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:56:54","slug":"dont-fear-the-russian-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/12\/dont-fear-the-russian-military\/","title":{"rendered":"DON\u2019T FEAR THE RUSSIAN MILITARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4148\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-560x294.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-260x137.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018-160x84.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/VOSTOK-2018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Atlantic<\/p>\n<p>By Mark Galeotti<\/p>\n<p>The headline figures for Russia\u2019s Vostok (or \u201cEast\u201d) military exercises, which began yesterday, are dramatic: 300,000 soldiers, 36,000 tanks and other vehicles, 80 ships, and 1,000 aircraft operating across more than half the country.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s double the size of the British armed forces. It\u2019s also twice the size of the last Vostok war games, held back in 2014. As if that weren\u2019t enough, some 3,200 Chinese troops and 30 aircraft are also involved, along with a small Mongolian force.<\/p>\n<p>Vostok will take the form of a week-long clash between two sides, fought on land, in the air, and in the waters off the Russian Far East. The drills will include staging parachute jumps, conducting \u201canti-terrorist operations,\u201d and shooting down cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise will conclude with a review of the forces in the field, a photo opportunity featuring row upon row of tanks, troops, and miscellaneous hardware. In a way, that\u2019s the whole point. Vostok is not just a big military-training drill\u2014it\u2019s a massive psychological-warfare operation and a geopolitical gambit, being undertaken by Russia as it regains much of its martial mojo and its ability to mount and coordinate complex operations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2018\/09\/russia-vostok-putin-army-china-nato\/570034\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=edit-promo&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=the-atlantic&amp;utm_term=2018-09-12T17%3A42%3A38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Atlantic By Mark Galeotti The headline figures for Russia\u2019s Vostok (or \u201cEast\u201d) military exercises, which began yesterday, are dramatic: 300,000 soldiers, 36,000 tanks and other vehicles, 80 ships, and 1,000 aircraft operating across more than half the country. That\u2019s double the size of the British armed forces. It\u2019s also twice the size of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/12\/dont-fear-the-russian-military\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DON\u2019T FEAR THE RUSSIAN MILITARY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}