Military doctrine of the Russian Federation of 2014 is defensive in nature. This was told by military expert, retired Colonel Viktor murakhovski. He noted that many of the provisions of the doctrine in comparison with the 2010 revision has not changed, but the number of articles in the document has increased from 51 to 58, some questions on military threats to Russia are disclosed in more detail.

So, the expert reminds that a regulation on the use of nuclear weapons remains the same — it is expected that it will be used in response to the use of nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction against Russia, but also in case of aggression carried out by conventional means, threatens the existence of the state.

Thus murakhovski noted that the doctrine was a paragraph, according to which Moscow is pursuing a policy of strategic deterrence not only nuclear but also conventional means, in particular with the use of precision weapons.

The military expert said that according to the document, Russia intends to pursue a policy of equal dialogue with the EU and NATO, despite the current relationship. "Is also defined accents, such as the first focused on increasing interaction with States parties BRICS, the Shanghai cooperation organization and the first position on cooperation with the republics of Abkhazia and Ossetia in order to ensure joint defense and security," he added.

Special attention Viktor Murakhovsky pays appeared position about the problems in the Arctic region. We are talking about the strengthening of military security and the economic functioning in the Arctic.

"From a military point of view, is the region through which the flight path of Intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic aviation of certain countries, and this is an area where submarines operate," — said the expert. He believes that it is necessary to expand the field of radar warning system for missile attacks (this is already done — such a station already exists in Irkutsk). In addition, you need to create a radar field to monitor air and underwater environments.

According to the document, the Russian armed forces should deploy space group and to provide air-space defense of key targets, says the expert. According to him, in 2015 in the framework of the plan of construction of the Russian army planned to create the aerospace forces, that is to combine air force, air and missile defense and space forces in one kind of armed forces.

"It looks like the structure military-air forces of the United States , which includes aviation, and air defense, and missile defense, and space systems, but the difference is that in the U.S. air force included and missile divisions of Intercontinental ballistic missiles, silo-based, and we still have strategic rocket forces remain separate combat arm of the armed forces", — the expert added.

Source: http://russian.rt.com/article/66468

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