Nearly all areas of policymaking have been in flux since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Defense strategy, as Zolotarev explains, is no exception. For example, in 1992 then President Boris Yeltsin created a special government agency, the Russian 
Security Council, to help formulate the country’s national security strategy. It was supposed to be a group with a broad vision, charged with considering everything from the country’s defence priorities to citizens’ civil liberties. But its influence was short-lived, and the task of formulating security and defence policy quickly shift ed to the Ministry of Defence. Instead of balancing multiple interests, Russia returned to the Soviet notion that the priorities of the state trump everything else. Both the old establishment and the new political elite could agree on one thing: they were unhappy about Russia’s loss of superpower status and the fact that Western powers were penetrating the space that “legitimately belongs” to Russia – the former Soviet republics. If early Post-Soviet defence doctrines stressed threats of domestic terrorism or breakaway provinces, then more recent versions stress an external threat – the United States. Zolotarev’s article is a sober assessment of the present thinking in Moscow, and it goes a long way toward explaining the fiery Russian reaction over the US missile defence plans in Europe. There is no doubt that Russia’s policies, particularly its combative stance on defence issues, are more than reminiscent of the Soviet days. Putin’s government is an impressive one. Liberal? No. Democratic? Hardly. But Putin and his team had a plan to restore Russia’s great-power status & they have executed it consistently & conscientiously...
Security Council, to help formulate the country’s national security strategy. It was supposed to be a group with a broad vision, charged with considering everything from the country’s defence priorities to citizens’ civil liberties. But its influence was short-lived, and the task of formulating security and defence policy quickly shift ed to the Ministry of Defence. Instead of balancing multiple interests, Russia returned to the Soviet notion that the priorities of the state trump everything else. Both the old establishment and the new political elite could agree on one thing: they were unhappy about Russia’s loss of superpower status and the fact that Western powers were penetrating the space that “legitimately belongs” to Russia – the former Soviet republics. If early Post-Soviet defence doctrines stressed threats of domestic terrorism or breakaway provinces, then more recent versions stress an external threat – the United States. Zolotarev’s article is a sober assessment of the present thinking in Moscow, and it goes a long way toward explaining the fiery Russian reaction over the US missile defence plans in Europe. There is no doubt that Russia’s policies, particularly its combative stance on defence issues, are more than reminiscent of the Soviet days. Putin’s government is an impressive one. Liberal? No. Democratic? Hardly. But Putin and his team had a plan to restore Russia’s great-power status & they have executed it consistently & conscientiously...For Complete IIPM Article, Click here
Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
