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| Future Russian Naval Doctrine |
| 2010-12-13 |
| Lemme guess. A lotta tug boats? Russia's new naval doctrine, as shown by its plans for shipbuilding over the next decade, is not directed against the United States and the West as was the Soviet Union's but rather is intended in the first instance to protect its economic interests on the continental shelf and to ensure that the sea lanes for delivering oil and gas remain open. More and more details are coming out about Russia's new naval doctrine, one that will redirect that country's efforts away from the geo-political challenges of the past to the geo-economic ones of the future but that sets the stage in particular places for serious naval competitions involving the rising naval power of China, Japan and India. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |