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PRC Economic Activity in the Arctic

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On March 14, 2022, CNA hosted a National Security Seminar on Arctic investment and economic activity by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

military interests may factor in the medium to long term, for the time being, economic strategy remains the key driver of PRC Arctic policy. Julian G. Waller /reports/2022/03

Russian Perspectives on Western Military Activities Oct 11

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NATO’s relations with Russia were a dominant topic of discussion in Russian media during the reporting period.

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Russian Perspectives on Western Military Activities Oct 1

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An in-depth analysis of the AUKUS alliance, published in Nezavisimoe Voennoe Obozrenie, argues that the alliance is part of an ongoing US strategy.

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Russian Military Strategy Core Tenets and Concepts

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Exploring the core tenets of Russian military strategy and associated operational concepts, situating its role within the Russian system of knowledge on military security.

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release: distribution unlimited. 104 DRM-2021-U-029755-1Rev Dmitry Gorenburg Mary Chesnut Jeffrey Edmonds Julian Waller

Russian Approaches to Competition

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Russian strategy is best characterized as offensive, seeking to revise the status quo, resulting in an activist foreign policy. The strategy does not eschew selective engagement in areas of mutual interest, but it is not premised on accommodation, concessions, or acceptance of the current balance of power. Instead, it emphasizes building the military means necessary for direct competition, and using them to enable indirect approaches for pursuing state objectives. Direct means range from conventional and nuclear force modernization, expansion of force structure in the European theater, exercises, brinksmanship, and use of force to attain vital interests. They deter US responses, threaten escalation, and create freedom of maneuver for Russian foreign policy. These are principally ways of compressing the opponent, and focusing on the main theater in the competition, which for Moscow is Europe. Indirect means in turn include military deployments abroad to peripheral theaters, covert action, use of proxies and mercenary groups, political warfare and information confrontation. These instruments are interrelated, with direct approaches, tied closely to military capability or classical forms of deterrence, enabling the indirect approach, which is the principal way by which Moscow pursues political aims. The logic of Russian strategy is that absent the ability to generate strong economic or technological means, Moscow is best served with approaches that reduce US performance by disorganizing its opponent's efforts, reducing cohesion, and employing asymmetric means in the competition.

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Preparing for Tomorrows Threats Overcoming Obstacles

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Preparing for future threats is a vital concern for US strategists. Innovation is one way to confront the threats we may face in the future, but achieving innovation presents organizational, cultural, decisionmaking, and technological challenges. To help strategists and policy-makers navigate these obstacles, CNA’s National Security Seminar (NSS) convened three experts to share their perspectives from their service at different offices within the Pentagon: General James T. Conway (US Marine Corps, ret.), the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps; Dr. Jamie M. Morin, former Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) at the Department of Defense; and Dr. Francis G. Hoffman, Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University, who was instrumental in authoring the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS). The discussion, moderated by CNA’s Dr. Carter Malkasian, was divided into two parts: the first identified obstacles to innovation, and the second looked at how to overcome those obstacles. The event was recorded and is available online.

problem, such that programmatic appropriations often fall victim to iterated distrust and conflicting ways of thinking about strategic goals. Rapporteur: Julian Waller /reports/2021/10

Russian Military Strategy: Core Tenets and Operational Concepts

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Russia’s military strategy of “active defense” blends defensive and offensive constructs and seeks to answer perceived forms of undeclared warfare.

A. Approved for public release: distribution unlimited. 104 DRM-2021-U-029755-Final Dmitry Gorenburg Mary Chesnut Jeffrey Edmonds Julian Waller With contributions by Kasey Stricklin and Samuel Bendett

AI and Autonomy in Russia

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Comprehensive overview shows Russia sees AI as vital to military and societal success, but talent shortages and neglect of private initiatives stymie progress.

Chesnut Dmitry Gorenburg Michael Kofman Kasey Stricklin Julian Waller

How China and Russia Use Information Operations to Compete with the US

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This article examines what tactics Beijing and Moscow use to manipulate the information environment and what narratives they try to promote.

analysts Heidi Holz and Josiah Case from the China Studies Program and Dmitry Gorenburg and Julian Waller from the Russia Studies Program briefed the fellows on Russia’s and China’s information ... that Russia supports traditional values more in line with those of the Global South. Russian President Vladimir Putin regularly brings up this theme in his speeches. Julian Waller observed that Putin

cna talks: Vladimir Putin's New Defense Minister Andrey Belousov

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The Russian Federation is an example of a large authoritarian state whose military is subordinate to its civil government. But since the onset of the War in Ukraine, tensions have been growing between civilian and military leaders. In this episode, Julian Waller joins John to discuss the current state of civil-military relations in Russia’s government and how the Wagner Group rebellion fits into this puzzle.

Vladimir Putin's New Defense Minister Andrey Belousov The Russian Federation is an example of a large authoritarian state whose military is subordinate to its civil government. But since the onset of the War in Ukraine, tensions have been growing between civilian and military leaders. In this episode, Julian Waller joins John to discuss the current state of civil-military relations in Russia’s government and how the Wagner Group rebellion fits into this puzzle. Vladimir Putin's New Defense Minister Andrey Belousov Julian G. Waller   is a Research Analyst with CNA’s   Russia Studies