Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military

School of War · Jun 27, 2023 · 55m

Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, host of the In Moscows’s Shadow podcast, and author of Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, joins the show to talk about the post-Cold War Russian Armed Forces.

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Times

• 02:13 Introduction

• 04:26 The peak

• 10:04 In decline

• 13:04 A day in the life of a ’90s Russian soldier

• 16:23 The First Chechen War

• 21:17 Putin and Chechnya

• 24:42 Russia’s claims

• 35:10 Modernization

• 40:49 Historical karma in Ukraine

• 46:10 Big picture

• 48:20 Ukraine’s counter-offensive

• 51:49 Wagner and Prigozhin

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