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The Kremlin in Command, Part I: The Chechen Wars and Georgia
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Sep 21, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Vladimir Putin's role as supreme commander has been center stage, offering a floundering and frightful performance. To understand the present, we reach back to the past. In the first of a multi-part series of episodes, Lawrence Freedman and Michael Kofman walk us through the post-Cold War history of the Kremlin and especially Putin as commander, starting with the First Chechen War through the short Russo-Georgian War (2008). In doing so, Freedman draws on his new book, Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine (https://amzn.to/3qYxPEF).
Released:
Sep 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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