Russian Military Strategic Analysis

energy needs. The Russian military is also one of the most powerful in the world. Reforms in 2008 meant that Russia was updating and and modernizing its military. With around 750,000 troops, and a the third largest military budget in the world Russia is a reinvigorated power. Russia also plans to increase their military budget in the coming years. Additionally with a stockpile of around 7,700 nuclear weapons the Russian Federation can blow the world to bits and still have Nuclear warheads to spare.
Radical Islamics are at this time a grave threat to the United States and its interests overseas. Both ISIS and Al-Qaeda represent a possible flaw of oversight in the American military strategy. The United States was at one time a master at guerrilla warfare. It is a major reason we won the Revolutionary war against a superior foe. Unfortunately the tables have turned. Instead of a conventional my army vs your army kind of fight, the United States Military is dealing with guerrilla warfare and local insurgencies. These terrorists are hiding amongst civilians and blend in with the general population, making it very hard to find and destroy legitimate military targets. This is quite the irony. However this means that the United States needs a new, …show more content…
They contend that the United States has already cut down its personal numbers and equipment enough from the cold war. US military personnel went from over two million in the early 1990s to its present day 1.4 million. They state that a strong America is good for the world and that that will provide global stability, America also must be powerful enough to deal with emerging threats, defense spending is unlike other spending because protecting the nation is the government’s first job. It’s in the Constitution. Republican party members also bring up good