Isbn: 9781584874928 - military modernization and the russian ground forces (1 Ergebnisse)

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. vii, [1], 56 p. Endnotes. From an on-line posting: "Russia s political leaders are currently pushing a state-and society-wide process of modernization. How will the deeply conservative Russian military accept and implement those proposed changes? Dr. Rod Thornton lectures at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom (UK). He previously spent 9 years in a British Army infantry regiment, including 3 years in Northern Ireland and 1 year as a Serbo-Croat interpreter in Bosnia (1992-93). He has lived and worked in both Moscow and Sarajevo. Dr. Thornton taught for 5 years at the UK s Joint Services Command and Staff College (working for King s College London), which included guest lecturing at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. He is the author of Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century (2007) and is currently working on a book (with Dr. Bettina Renz) on Russian military modernization. Dr. Thornton holds a Ph.D. focusing on comparative peacekeeping operations." Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling.…