2003/06/01 by Quentin Hodgson, Quentin E. Hodgson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #European Politics and Security #European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies #Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1080/01402390412331302985
openalex publication_date 2003/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In recent years, writers have too quickly dismissed the Russian military as incompetent. Its performance in the Second Chechen War should give them pause. The Russian military has learned valuable lessons from the disaster of the first war and is applying those lessons to its conduct of the second. While improvements have come on the tactical and operational level, one should not conclude, however, that the Russians are winning the war. The Second Chechen War is proving once again that modern warfare is a messy business and that only a political solution can bring an end to a political problem.