Urban Breakfast “Is the New Great War Possible?”
... International Security Studies of the RAS and Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director of Programs, who discussed the possibility of a new great war. Aleksey Fenenko opened the event stating that our notion of war is based on the inventions of the Second Boer War and pertains ... ... is based on the principle of “a cheap win,” i.e. the destruction of opponent’s key administrative and economic centers. Nuclear weapons prevent the nuclear powers from engaging in mutually destructive wars, thus opening other localized frontiers ...
12.07.2017