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Friday, March 14, 2014

Why Russia calls a limited nuclear strike "de-escalation"


NIKOLAI N. SOKOV
Why Russia calls a limited nuclear strike "de-escalation"
Since 2000, Russian military doctrine has included the concept of “de-escalation”—the idea that, if Russia were faced with a large-scale conventional attack, it might respond with a limited nuclear strike. Here's why that's relevant to Ukraine.http://thebulletin.org/why-russia-calls-limited-nuclear-strike-de-escalation

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