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Deriving in part from its Soviet past, Russia's military doctrine represents more than just a road map of how to fight the nation's wars; it also specifies threats to national interests, in this case the United States, NATO and international terrorism. Against this background, Robert Brannon demonstrates that the military's influence may reveal as much about politics as it does the military.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Russian Civil-Military Relations in Transition -- 2 Military Doctrine and Security Strategy in Modern Russia -- 3 Past as Prologue: Setting the Scene, 1996-1998 -- 4 Case I: The Russians Are Coming! The Race to Pristina Airport, June 1999 -- 5 Case II: The Second Road to War in Chechnya: Dagestan, July-September 1999 -- 6 Case III: High Seas Tragedy and Military Melodrama: The Submarine Kursk Tragedy, August 2000 -- 7 Conclusions -- Epilogue: Russia and Georgia: The Summer of 2008 -- Appendices -- Appendix A Russian Military Doctrine, November 1993 -- Appendix B Russian National Security Policy, December 1997 -- Appendix C The World Ocean: Concept Paper for Russia's Naval Program -- Appendix D Russian National Security Concept, January 2000 -- Appendix E Russian Military Doctrine, April 2000 -- Bibliography

This book represents the first attempt to deal with the problem of how to conceptualize the civil-military relations of communist systems within a common intellectual framework. The opening chapters present three major constructs originally designed for analyzing civil-military relations in the USSR: the interest group approach, the institutional congruence approach, and the participatory model. In subsequent chapters the utility of these approaches is tested against a wide variety of communist systems, including those of Cuba, the USSR, China, Romania, Hungary, the GDR, and Poland. In probing these issues for the first time, the authors shed considerable light on the transnational differences and similarities among communist systems, and the dynamics of civil-military relations in all communist systems.

While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations-the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it. This unique book edited by Colton C. Campbell and David P. Auerswald will help readers better understand the role of Congress in military affairs and national and international security policy. Contributors include the most experienced scholars in the field as well as practitioners and innovative new voices, all delving into the ways Congress attempts to direct the military