MARCH 2024 - The General Staff’s Throw-Weight - The Russian Military’s Role in and

By analytical black box during the Cold War.7 Therefore, contrast, in the 1980s, the military’s influence in the 1970s and 1980s, US scholars and academics seemed to wane as the new general secretary of the sought to understand the inner workings of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Mikhail Soviet political and military bureaucracy and how Gorbachev, looked for civilian sources of ad. [...] The General Staff is are the Main Operational Directorate and the Main subordinate to the MOD, and currently the two Directorate.22 organizations and their leaders have a “symbiotic” relationship, with each carrying out distinctive MAIN OPERATIONAL DIRECTORATE: duties and activities.21 The MOD carries out the THE HEART OF NUCLEAR PLANNING administrative functions of the military, while the Current. [...] The minister of its current leadership, “all the decisions and guidance defense is generally a civilian, and both the minister of the military-political leadership of the country, and the chief of the General Staff are appointed by the Main Operational Directorate transforms into the president. [...] It civilian authority and the participation of numerous then traces the features and contributions of the civilian stakeholders in contesting agreements that arms control interagency process were concluded without the full during the Cold War and in the involvement of the interagency. [...] Finally, The Putin period began with it argues that the interagency The post–Cold War a set of inter-military disputes process can be viewed through interagency process about the future of the nuclear the prism of the civil-military is best understood as forces and featured a gradually relationship and the ability of increasing role for the president the military to hold a monopoly divided between.