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Moscou et Pékin partagent beaucoup d'intérêts communs avec la volonté de retrouver un rang international face aux États-Unis. Cependant, malgré de nombreuses actions bilatérales, les deux pays s'en tiennent à un partenariat plutôt qu'à une réelle alliance.

Denouncing military weakness, notably apparent in the summer of 2008, the Russian Prime Minister is developing his concern over Russian national strength and pride, frustrated by the past two post-Soviet decades. Detailing the many shortcomings, he plans to revive the Russian military establishment, outlining a policy of rearmament. The author, a well-informed observer of the Russian scene offers his analysis of Putin's patriotic rhetoric, designed for electoral purposes.

Nuclear disarmament and arms reduction do not have the same aims. Confusing their definitions means misunderstanding the logic which currently drives the power calculations of yesterday's Great Powers, and their associated approaches to the new strategic actor -- China. The author knows the subject well from personal experience.

In 2010, their ninth year of war in Afghanistan, the Americans have adopted a new, last-chance strategy of counter-insurgency, based on joint civil-military action. This new strategy is strongly influenced by the research of French analysts in the 1960s; it has little chance of success, since it cannot transcend military & political contradictions.