Brothers armed
Subtitle: military aspects of the crisis in Ukraine
By: edited by Colby Howard and Ruslan Pukhov, Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), Moscow ; foreword by David M. Glantz
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: East View Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781879944657; 9781879944640
Subjects: Politics and government; Ukraine; Reorganization; Ukraine. Zbroĭni Syly; Defenses; Military History; Ukraine Conflict, 2014-; Military policy; Armed Forces
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The backstory of a disputed Crimea; title: Khrushchev's gift: the questionable ownership of Crimea / Vasiliy Kashin; title: Part II. A picture of the military faceoff; title: The Soviet inheritance of Ukrainian armed forces / Sergey Denisentsev; title: Neglect and rot: degradation of Ukraine's military in the interim period / Anton Lavrov and Aleksey Nikolsky; title: Russia: hard lessons learned: Russian military reform up to the Georgian conflict / Mikhail Barabanov; title: Changing the force and moving forward after Georgia / Mikhail Barabanov; title: Little, green, and polite: the creation of Russian special operations forces / Aleksey Nikolsky; title: Part III. The annexation of Crimea; title: Home of the Black Sea Fleet: history and disposition of Russian forces on Crimea / Dmitry Boltenkov; title: Russian again: the military operation for Crimea / Anton Lavrov; title: Part IV. Ukrainian armed forces put to the test; title: Viewing the action in Ukraine from the Kremlin's windows / Mikhail Barabanov; title: Civil war in the east: how the conflict unfolded before Minsk I / Anton Lavrov; title: Aircraft, tanks and artillery in the Donbass / Anton Lavrov; title: Reorganization under crisis: development of Ukraine's defense and security agencies / Alexey Nikolsky.