... States, the European Union and China (and soon India) by 2025, or even 2030. One way or another, the EAEU member states will have to integrate into a larger association, whether it be together or as separate entities.
3. Is it possible to escape another arms race with the West?
2015
: Half a century ago, the USSR and the United States began intensive negotiations that resulted in the conclusion of a number of historic agreements, first on the limitation and then on the reduction of the strategic arsenals ...
... First, countries possessing such weapons will have an asymmetric advantage over other developing countries. Second, it will trigger the deployment of the space-based laser component of the missile defense system. Third, it will provoke a new global arms race, including with regard to laser weapons, hypersonic anti-missile systems, cyber-weapons, railguns and unmanned delivery platforms for strike weapons. Moreover, for non-nuclear powers, hypersonic missiles may become a serious instrument of deterrence ...
... even non-nuclear countries now have the capability of sharply increasing their deterrence and attack potential. These trends entail a series of risks:
— the risk of one country establishing technological and military global superiority;
— a new arms race;
— increased regional and international tensions;
— reduced transparency of military programmes;
— a disregard for international law;
— the spread of dangerous technologies among non-state actors.
Nikolay Markotkin:
Close Encounters ...
...
The tone of Putin’s address is decisive. His critics would say he tries to earn respect and equality in the West through heavy expenses on the country’s military industry, but instead his policy leads to the boomerang effect while provoking a new arms race. Putin’s supporters would question this statement and say that President Trump
increases the Pentagon’s budget
and modernizes America’s nuclear arsenal
to counter
“Russian aggression in the region”; the military expenses in the U....
How likely is a new arms race to begin? Are the latest actions of Russia and the U.S. going to lead to a new Cold War or will they become a starting point of the negotiations on a new strategic arms reduction treaty?
On April 6, 2018 the Russian International Affairs Council ...
In the first half of 2015, international media outlets reported the successful Russian and Chinese testing of hypersonic flight vehicles, i.e. gliding hypersonic warheads carried by ballistic missiles. The Russian Project 4202 and the Chinese project WU-14 point to a new spiral in the nuclear and nonnuclear technologies race. So far, this concerns technology but not arms because the Russian, Chinese and American (HTV-2 и AHW) experimental hypersonic vehicles are still in the R&D and testing stages...
Russia's European neighbors are increasing their defense budgets, which is quite logical because Ukraine is on fire and many are wary of Moscow. A new arms race in Eastern and Northern Europe is looming, although limited in scale.
This April, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute issued a report
[1]
claiming that the Baltic, Central and Northern European countries will engage in increased ...
... country’s development (and the current model should drastically change to this end in view), but restoring the attractiveness of Russian civilization, without which we are bound to lose all remaining allies and partners.
Is it possible to escape another arms race with the West?
Igor Ivanov:
Ukraine Crisis More Dangerous Than Cold War
Russia's current program of modernizing its armed forces was developed and adopted during a fundamentally different economic and political situation: oil prices were different; ...
Don't put the mankind back to 1980's
American efforts to develop Prompt Global Strike systems have caught the attention of Russian leaders and experts for some time. Amidst deteriorating Russia-US relations, these efforts are perceived rather warily by the Russian side and often treated as a threat to the strategic stability and national security of Russia. To find out if these concerns are justified, we must look closely into the matter.
The emergence of the concept
The US military idea of Prompt...
Does the development of Conventional Prompt Global Strike means the beginning of a new round of arms race between the U.S. and Russia?
Does the development of Conventional Prompt Global Strike means the beginning of a new round of arms race between the U.S. and Russia?
Alexander Saveliev
, IMEMO RAN, Russia:
I don’t see any reason for serious ...
