Russia’s Reborn Navy Contributing In Syria
December 29, 2015
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Russia's Navy is growing and playing a greater role is Russia's aggressive foreign policy posture for the first time in two generations, and the US seems - still - unprepared and unwilling to push back.
Russia's military capacity has been severely limited since the end of the Cold War. It's most noteworthy events were two Chechen Wars in the 1990s and early 2000s that went poorly, and the 2000 disaster that sank and killed all 118 sailors aboard the nuclear submarine Kursk. Even Russia's invasion of Georgia in 2008 was poorly executed against a nominal military power.
Since Georgia, Russia has done better. The invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2009 was more or less flawless. The Russian involvement in Ukraine today is less so, but is also hampered by having to maintain the pretense of non-involvement.