Название: The Military Balance 2019
Автор: James Hackett
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 504
Размер: 23 mb
Язык: английский
Очередной выпуск знаменитого справочника по вооруженным силам стран всего мира от Международного института стратегических исследований.
This 2019 edition of The Military Balance is published 60 years after it first appeared as an 11-page pamphlet in late 1959. The international security environment is again as uncertain today as it was then. Great-power competition still dominates contemporary Western policy discussions, but now it is not only Moscow's actions that generate attention. China perhaps represents even more of a challenge, as it introduces yet more advanced military systems and is engaged in a strategy to improve its forces' ability to operate at distance from the homeland. At the same time, while Western armed forces - particularly after Russia seized Crimea in 2014 - are refocusing on more traditional security challenges, though characterised by disruptive new elements, they are having to do this alongside, not instead of, the range of post-9/11 tasks.