Thursday, July 9, 2015

bmpd — Russian Army forms 9 CBR Regiments

J.Hawk's Comment: There are lots of stories which go viral that probably shouldn't. "Sound and fury signifying nothing." Then there are stories like this one which are of genuine import. Standing up new military formations is not done on a whim or as part of a fad, given the expenditure of resources such initiatives entail. Talk is cheap; military restructuring and expansion is not.The fact that we are seeing more than doubling of Russia's CBR forces in a very short time indicates that the military and national leadership is anticipating a distinct possibility its armed forces might find themselves, at some point in foreseeable future, operating in a WMD-contaminated environment. That's the only possible explanation of a move on such a scale. Of course, the big question is whether Russian forces are expected to operate under conditions of radiological contamination caused by their own or NATO tactical nukes, but that's a question we can't really answer without finding out what kinds of wargames the Russian General Staff is playing these days.

This is not the first such report in recent weeks. Earlier ones included the formation of the 1st Guards Tank Army and the establishment of Assault Sapper units, both of which point toward a certain offensive-mindedness of the Russian Ground Forces. As does the above news report.
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Russian Army forms 9 CBR Regiments
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Original: Russian Army forms 9 CBR Regiments
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

See also Donbass and the Second Punic War

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