Describe the russian way of war

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Assignment:

Provide brief responses to the following questions, based on your own reading of the Learning Resources below:

How does Mette Skak describe "the Russian way of war" as it relates to broader Russian strategic culture? And what does she list as "Soviet atavisms" or strategic cultural vestiges of Marxism-Leninism?
Adamsky claims that Russian military scholars were the first to realize the potential of advanced technology to alter the calculus of military strategy. But what was about Russian strategic culture that prevented them from exploiting this theoretical understanding?
According to Kristian Gustafson, is Russian strategic culture undergoing a change, or are long-standing continuities showing their endurance?

Readings:

Mette Skak, "Russian Strategic Culture: A Critical Survey of the Literature," Chapter 12 in Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture (London: Routledge, 2024), pp. 164-178.

Adamsky, The Culture of Military Innovation, Chapter 2: "The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Soviet Military-Technical Revolution," pp. 24-57.

Kristian C. Gustafson, "Protecting the New Rome: Byzantine Influences on Russian Intelligence," Chapter 5 in Davies and Gustafson, eds., Intelligence Elsewhere: Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere (2013), pp. 67-88.

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