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Buying Russian Missile Systems Would Be a Political Breakthrough for Turkey

... deputy defense secretaries, back in the days of Donald Rumsfeld, told me: “You can sell rifles, automatic weapons, armored vehicles, even tanks to a NATO member state, but you will never sell aircraft, warships, air defense systems, because this is not military-technical cooperation, not commerce – this is politics.” Therefore, if Russia succeeds to supply the S-400s to Turkey, it will be a fundamental political breakthrough. The Americans will do everything to prevent this. The point is that the ...

22.08.2018

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The Armed Forces of Baltic and Eastern European States

... confrontation between Russia and NATO. In the light of the above, a brief supplement on the state of the armed forces in the CIS would be a useful addition to existing analytical materials. This review draws on publicly available sources, primarily the Military Balance Report of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). The Baltic Region REUTERS/ Ints Kalnins Latvian army soldiers Latvia The modern Latvian National Armed Forces can trace their origin to the National Guard, or Zemessardze,...

05.05.2017

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