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Russia's Limit of Advance
Ben Connable
Abby Doll
Alyssa Demus
Dara Massicot
Clint Reach
Anthony Atler
Matthew Povlock
Lauren Skrabala
其他書名
Scenarios
出版
RAND Corporation
, 2020
主題
History / Europe / Eastern
History / Military / Strategy
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN
1977402445
9781977402448
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Mh1-zQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
By the time it invaded Crimea in 2014, Russia seemed to have regained a significant portion of the military power it lost after the fall of the Soviet Union, reemerging as a perceived threat to democracy. But how capable is Russia of deploying and sustaining ground combat forces farther from its borders? An analysis of notional ground deployment scenarios constructed from real-world, open-source data, along with a review of historical cases spanning the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, reveals strengths and limitations of Russia's military infrastructure. In fact, despite Russia's status as a reemerging global military power, its ground force deployment capability is strong only near its western border and within range of its air defenses. Although it poses a credible threat to Eastern Europe, its ability to deploy ground combat units drops off sharply as geographic distance increases. Limited forces and transportation assets, a lack of international support, and an insufficient ability to sustain its deployed forces also prevent Russia from regaining its Soviet-era deployment capacity. This report presents additional detail on the notional scenarios that informed the analysis of Russian ground force deployment capabilities. The scenarios range from border deployments to long-range overseas deployments and were designed to test the limits of Russia's capacity to deploy forces and equipment. They were not necessarily chosen to reflect the probability or political feasibility of an actual Russian deployment.