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  • Historical Analysis of Reconstitution and Military Modernization

    How will Russia leverage historical precedents, defense economy investments, and modernization trade-offs to reconstitute its military after heavy losses, and how must NATO integrate these strategic insights into its Eastern Flank deterrence planning to counter future threats?

  • Russian Strategic Decision Making: Military Leadership

    To what extent are trends in Russian senior officer promotions, postings, and the emergence of a new military elite—shaped by competency, obedience, and patronage networks—revealing the future trajectory of Russian military leadership and its implications for the General Staff.

  • Russian Way of War: Military Vulnerabilities

    To what extent do the vulnerabilities, risks, and biases embedded in Russian doctrine, strategy, operational concepts, tactics, and capability development—along with flawed threat perceptions, escalation pathways, and systemic weaknesses across the Russian state and military—create

  • Russian Way of War: Military Logistics and Sustainment

    To what extent is Russia’s logistics and sustainment ecosystem—its wartime adaptations, modernization efforts, structural strengths, and persistent vulnerabilities—evolving in response to lessons from the war in Ukraine, and how might this trajectory shape future challenges and

  • Russian Way of War: Future Military Force Structure and Design

    To what extent are the major factors shaping Russian future force structure through 2042—its strategic priorities, programmatic continuities and cancellations, gaps between intent and implementation, and required investments—revealing Russia’s underlying military intent and the