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| Pentagon announces a tender for the purchase of books about Russian military strategy |
| 2024-06-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Pentagon has announced a tender for the purchase of books by Western authors about Russian military strategy for training US Air Force personnel. The application was posted on the American government procurement website. The American military department decided to purchase the works of King’s College London lecturer Ofer Friedman “Strategy: the basis of Russian military strategy”, “Russia’s Grand Strategy in the Age of Global Energy Competition” by Andrew Morgan and the work of another English expert Sameul Ramani, dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, the Pentagon decided to buy books about the works of military classics of Ancient China, the strategy of war in space and the use of artificial intelligence in conflicts. There are six books in total in the tender, with $600 allocated for each. The tender is scheduled to be completed on June 15. It is reported that the books, after purchase, will be delivered to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The Air University and the Air Force Historical Research Agency are located there. The winning vendors are required to deliver the books to the Air Force Command and General Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama, within 30 days of bid approval. The tender is carried out according to a simplified procedure. As Regnum reported, in December 2020, the Pentagon announced its intention to purchase Russian Mi-24 or Mi-17 helicopters, as well as the An-2 aircraft. It was reported that this was needed to train military pilots in tactics courses to simulate a "realistic" enemy during exercises. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on May 18 that the acute phase of the confrontation between Russia and the West has not only not ended, but is in full swing. The minister noted the particular zeal in attacks on Russia in some European countries. The West is promoting the myth of an imaginary Russian threat to accelerate the pace of the arms race, he emphasized. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 (a) Russians will never give up on this particular fight. They had a Battle of Stalingrad once already. Seems like something they might want to prevent. (b) Russians, so far, were not really serious. I've been wondering about that lately. Initially, the number of troops in the Special Military Operation was limited by law - conscripts cannot be used outside the country. (In addition to being ex-KGB, Putin is also a lawyer, in case you needed another reason to hate him). But even after territories were annexed, the Russians never seemed to go all in, at least in my conception of modern, industrial warfare. No carpet bombed cities, no vast waves of tanks, planes and infantry. No complete mobilization. Not even a Thunder Run to Kiev. They seem to be playing the long game with just enough fight to get where they are headed. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-06-03 21:40 |
| #4 #1 Anyways, what Pentagoners need to read are books on Russian history - so they'll realize: (a) Russians will never give up on this particular fight. (b) Russians, so far, were not really serious. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-03 15:50 |
| #3 I'm sure Mr. Steele has some for you, for price. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-03 15:09 |
| #2 ...FWIW, every book I read on Soviet military strategy back in the Cold War days turned out to be wrong. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-06-03 07:49 |
| #1 Just a bit too late? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-03 05:32 |