[t's too disturbing.
Calls for strong condemnation.
While a clear call must once again go out for the dissolution of the
NATO and global nuclear disarmament, it's really problematic that
there is virtually no peace movement within Russia or China,
presumably none at all in N. Korea. The peace movements within Israel,
Pakistan and even India are also understandably rather small.]
Russian General Calls for Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against
NATO
* The Moscow Times
* Sep. 03 2014 17:40
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Vladimir Filonov / MTRussian military vehicles drive down Tverskaya
Street during rehearsals for the Victory Day military parade in central
Moscow May 5, 2014.
A Russian general has called for Russia to revamp its military doctrine,
last updated in 2010, to clearly identify the U.S. and its NATO allies
as Moscow's enemy number one and spell out the conditions under which
Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the 28-member
military alliance, Interfax reported Wednesday.
Russia's military doctrine, a strategy document through which
the government interprets military threats and crafts possible
responses, is being revised in light of threats connected to the Arab
Spring, the Syrian civil war and the conflict in Ukraine, the deputy
chief of the Kremlin's security council told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
But within the Defense Ministry there are voices calling for different
priorities.
"First and foremost, the likely enemy of Russia should be clearly
identified in this strategic document, something absent from the 2010
military doctrine. In my view, our primary enemy is the U.S. and the
North Atlantic bloc," General Yury Yakubov, a senior Defense Ministry
official, was quoted as saying by Interfax.
The 2010 doctrine defines NATO expansion as a threat to Russian national
security and reaffirms its right to use nuclear weapons in a defensive
posture, but stops far short of declaring NATO as Moscow's primary
adversary and laying preemptive nuclear strike scenarios on the table,
a posture unmistakably reminiscent of the Cold War.
Yakubov said the information war being waged over the crisis
in Ukraine -- where the West accuses Russia of arming separatists
fighting the government in Kiev -- and NATO's announcement that it would
establish a permanent military presence in Eastern Europe have validated
earlier fears that the alliance's claims of non-aggression toward Russia
were insincere.
The general added that special attention should be paid to integrating
the functions of the newly created Air and Space Defense Forces with
Russia's land, sea and air based nuclear forces. "In addition, it is
necessary to hash out the conditions under which Russia could carry out
a preemptive strike with the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces," he said.
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