WikiLeaks: a Russian army Bashny.Net

The newspaper «Aftenposten», which at one time Julian Assange threw all of the 250 000 documents of its archive, published an article based on the secret NATO documents concerning the assessment of the state of the Russian army on the basis of the analysis results of the exercise "Ladoga-2009" and the "West 2009". Evaluation of this very joyless to us - an article entitled "Hopeless verdict Russian army».
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Let me remind you that the purpose of large-scale exercises, which were held in Belarus in August and September 2009 was "working off of interaction in the neutralization of armed conflict and the destruction of terrorist groups." In addition, after the war in Georgia, which showed the weaknesses of the Russian army, whose soldiers were often forced, as the newspaper writes, to coordinate their actions via their personal mobile phones, as the greatest threat to Russian fighters submit their own air defense systems, the Russian military would like to eliminate the detected deficiencies .

NATO military commanders to follow closely the teachings with the help of intelligence and spy satellites. The conclusion, which is contained in the documents of the closed briefing NATO in Brussels in November 2009, is as follows: The situation in the Russian army is much worse than it could have imagined. The observers concluded that "the Russian war with themselves».

In NATO documents indicated the following weaknesses of the Russian army:

• heavy reliance on older types of weapons,

• failure to carry out joint operations with ground troops air force

• acute shortage of strategic vehicles that leads to unwillingness to fight at any time of the year,

• lack of skills coordination of joint attacks,

• a complete unwillingness to conduct modern warfare troops on the type of the American doctrine of «network centric warfare»,

• Poor sense of camaraderie among staff and lack of training.

The saddest thing is that these disadvantages lead to the fact that the army even in local conflicts ready to use tactical nuclear weapons in an attempt to radically solve the problem - it was noted "covert simulation of situations where such use tactical nuclear weapons».

Full article in «Aftenposten» can be read in the paper version of the newspaper, or in abbreviated form on the website: www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/wi...icle4028756.ece

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