Category: Military Issues

Thoughts on Hybrid Flirtation and Hybrid Alliance

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Oleksiy Volovych The hybrid Russian-Israeli flirtation (or rather, the flirtation between Putin and Netanyahu) is perceived with great irritation in Damascus, Tehran and Ankara. Against this background, the coalition RF — TR — IRI looks hybrid, unstable, contradictory, and therefore — transient. It seems that in the political sense, for the Russian leadership, relations with Israel are more important than with Iran and Turkey.     The article is available in Ukrainian

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New Threats to Central Asia

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Vadym Volokhov In the spring of 2019, we should expect aggravation of the military-political situation on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan and in the South-East of Uzbekistan. It is unlikely that the fighting of the ISIS and the Tajik opposition will become large-scale one, since both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are members of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization” and of the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and the charts of these organizations provide for “strengthening peace, international and regional security, collective defense of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states”. The potential of member countries is relatively higher than that…

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Ensuring the Country’s Security in the Postmodern World

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Peculiarities of the New National Intelligence Strategy of the United States   Victor Hvozd US leadership continues to thoroughly update a set of basic documents relevant to the country’s national security and defense. In general, this is, so to speak, a usual practice of every American administration. However, as we have noted in previous publications, during the  presidency of D. Trump, the content of such documents is fundamentally different if compared with those adopted by the previous US administration in 2013–2014. This first of all concerns the revision of the adversaries and a clearer definition of the threats to the United States, as well as the USA’s efforts to demonstrate…

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US Missile Defense Plans

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Problems and Consequences for the World   Victor Hvozd In mid-January 2019 President of the United States D. Trump unveiled the Missile Defense Review. The document defines the main threats to the United States’ security in the missile and nuclear sphere, as well as the plans for further development of US and NATO missile defense systems. The Review is fully in line with Washington’s vision of the need to strengthen the defense of the United States and its allies in the conditions of the proliferation of nuclear missile technologies in the world and their reaching a qualitatively new level. This was the reason for the USA’s withdrawal…

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Let Us Celebrate Original Ukrainian Dates!

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The 100th Anniversary of the Creation of the Special and Intelligence Services of the State   Victor Hvozd President of the “Borysfen Intel” Centre, Lieutenant General of the Reserve, Chief of the Military Intelligence (2008–2010) and Foreign Intelligence (2014–2016) of Ukraine, Ph.D. in Military Science   Publication of the material “The 100th Anniversary of the Creation of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine” on March 10 had a positive response among researchers of the history of the special services of Ukraine and veterans of the Intelligence. Let me remind that on the basis of the…

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Moscow Is Playing the Taliban

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Vadym Volokhov November 9, 2018, Moscow hosted negotiations and consultations with the participation of the Taliban on “peaceful settlement in Afghanistan”. The talks were attended by representatives of Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The United States was also invited, but its representative was not there. Here one should understand that Russia is not a direct participant in the negotiations, but acted as an intermediary and provided a place for the meeting. And here again the question arises: “Why did Russia go for legitimization of the Taliban movement, which in itself is…

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The 100th Anniversary of the Creation of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine

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March 10, 1918 can be considered the Day of Creation of the Military Intelligence of Independent Ukraine   Victor Hvozd President of the “Borysfen Intel” Centre, Lieutenant General of the Reserve, Chief of the Military Intelligence (2008–2010) and Foreign Intelligence (2014–2016) of Ukraine, Ph.D. in Military Science   According to the usual practice, the official holiday of a unit, formation, branch of service is the date of the order (directive, decree, etc.) on the creation of the appropriate administrative body. When Ukraine gained independence in 1991, hundreds of intelligence officers (who had been serving…

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