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Intro -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author's Note -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Diagrams -- maps -- diagrams -- Abbreviations -- Cast of Characters -- Chronology -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- army games -- russia and war -- putin -- Part One: Before Putin -- Chapter 2: Born in Chaos -- the soviet disunion -- the august coup -- boris yeltsin: the man without the plan -- Chapter 3: A Military in Crisis -- an army gone bad -- nukes for sale? -- bringing the boys back home -- empty dreams -- 'pasha mercedes' -- Chapter 4: The First Chechen War -- resistance and resentment -- high hopes, quick defeats -- the plan -- taking grozny … -- … and losing grozny again -- Chapter 5: The Wars of Russian Assertion -- moldova's post-soviet hangover -- central asia: the tajikistan contingent -- balkan dash -- Part Two: Enter Putin -- Chapter 6: Putin's Priorities -- who is vladimir putin? -- putin in charge -- putin's ministers -- Chapter 7: The Second Chechen War -- round two -- retaking grozny -- operation wolf hunt -- the creation of 'kadyrovstan' -- lessons learned -- Chapter 8: Ivanov, the Initiator -- my name's ivanov, sergei ivanov -- the spy and the generals -- ivanov's reforms -- size does matter -- Chapter 9: Serdyukov, the Enforcer -- enter the taxman -- serdyukov's purge -- and enter makarov -- the georgian excuse -- Chapter 10: Georgia, 2008 (1): Tbilisi's Move … -- harbingers -- provoking a war -- the georgian advance -- the battle for tskhinvali -- the russian advance -- Chapter 11: Georgia, 2008 (2): … Moscow's Counter -- the tide turns -- the abkhaz front -- the audit -- did anything work well? -- Chapter 12: 'New Look' Army -- command and control: unified battle management -- the ground forces: divisions to brigades -- the air forces: rationalized -- the navy: integrated at last.

Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power, from mercenaries to information operatives, and how in this rekindled Cold War with the West Putin has increasingly relied on military force to project power abroad. It does not ignore Russian military failings at both tactical and strategic level in all these conflicts, particularly during the invasion of Ukraine, and predicts both possible scenarios for this war and future military relations between Russia and its other neighbours including China. Peppered with anecdotes and first-hand accounts from serving and retired Russian officers, this is an engaging and important history of the reawakened Russian bear.

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality "This brisk everyman's guide-straight-talking and free of jargon-is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not."-Roger Boyes, The Times "Galeotti's field guide is an admirably clear overview (in his words, 'quick and opinionated') of a form of conflict which is vague and hard to grasp. Variously described as hybrid, sub-threshold or grey-zone warfare, this is the no man's land between peaceful relations and formal combat."-Helen Warrell, Financial Times Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict-fought with guns, bombs, and drones-has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. As conflict once again returns to Europe, transnational crime expert Mark Galeotti provides a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, Galeotti shows how today's conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of "stable" warfare, Galeotti details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality

"Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict-fought with guns, bombs, and drones-has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. Transnational crime expert Mark Galeotti provides a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, Galeotti shows how today's conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of "stable" warfare, Galeotti details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality." --

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict-fought with guns, bombs, and drones-has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. Transnational crime expert Mark Galeotti provides a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, Galeotti shows how today's conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of "stable" warfare, Galeotti details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality

Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very heart of our daily lives. In this essential primer, Professor Mark Galeotti uncovers the man behind the myth, addressing the key misperceptions of Putin and explaining how we can decipher his motivations and next moves. From Putin's early life in the KGB and his real relationship with the USA to his vision for the future of Russia - and the world - Galeotti draws on new Russian sources and explosive unpublished accounts to give unparalleled insight into the man at the heart of global politics.

This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia's geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as 'hybrid war' but 'political war.' Russia seeks to antagonise: its diplomats castigate Western 'Russophobia' and cultivate populist sentiment abroad, while its media sells Russia as a peaceable neighbour and a bastion of traditional social values. Its spies snoop, and even kill, and its hackers and trolls mount a 24/7 onslaught on Western systems and discourses. This is generally characterised as 'hybrid war,' but this is a misunderstanding of Russian strategy. Drawing extensively not just on their writings but also decades of interactions with Russian military, security and government officials, this study demonstrates that the Kremlin has updated traditional forms of non-military 'political war' for the modern world. Aware that the West, if united, is vastly richer and stronger, Putin is seeking to divide, and distract, in the hope it will either accept his claim to Russia's great-power status - or at least be unable to prevent him. In the process, Russia may be foreshadowing how the very nature of war is changing: political war may be the future. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, war studies, Russian politics and security studies.

Part Part I Criminal Foundations -- chapter 1 Mark Galeotti (1994), {u2018}Criminal Russia: The Traditions Behind the Headlines{u2019}, History Today, ppages 12-14 -- chapter 2 Federico Varese (1998), {u2018}The Society of the Vory-v-Zakone, 1930s-1950s{u2019}, Cahiers du Monde russe, 39, ppages 515-38 -- chapter 3 Yuri Glazov (1976), {u2018} ?Thieves? in the USSR -- A Social Phenomenon{u2019}, Survey, 22, ppages 141-56 -- chapter 4 Steven J. Staats (1972), {u2018}Corruption in the Soviet System{u2019}, Problems o f Communism, 21, ppages 40-47 -- chapter 5 Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman (1983), {u2018}The Cultural Bases of Soviet Georgia{u2019}s Second Economy{u2019}, Soviet Studies, XXXV, ppages 546-60 -- part PART II WHAT IS THE MAFIYA ? -- chapter 6W.E. Butler (1992), {u2018}Crime in the Soviet Union: Early Glimpses of the True Story{u2019}, British Journal of Criminology, 32, ppages 144-59 -- chapter 7 Joseph D. Serio and Vyacheslav Razinkin (1995), {u2018}Thieves Professing the Code: The Traditional Role of Vory v Zakone in Russia{u2019}s Criminal World and Adaptations to a New Social Reality{u2019}, Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, 4, ppages 72-88 -- chapter 8 Stephen Handelman (1994), {u2018}The Russian ?Mafiya? {u2019}, Foreign Affairs, 73, ppages 83-96 -- chapter 9 Robert J. Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg and Patrick J. Ryan (1995), {u2018}Primitive Capitalist Accumulation: Russia as a Racket{u2019}, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 11, ppages 257-75 -- chapter 10 Joseph L. Albini, R.E. Rogers, Victor Shabalin, Valery Kutushev, Vladimir Moiseev and Julie Anderson (1995), {u2018}Russian Organized Crime: Its History, Structure and Function{u2019}, Journal o f Contemporary Criminal Justice, 11, ppages 213-43 -- chapter 11 Federico Varese (1994), {u2018}Is Sicily the Future of Russia? Private Protection and the Rise of the Russian Mafia{u2019}, Archives européenes de sociologie, XXXV, ppages 224-58 -- part Part III Assessments -- chapter 12 Alexander S. Nikiforov (1993), {u2018}Organized Crime in the West and in the Former USSR: An Attempted Comparison{u2019}, International Journal o f Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 37, ppages 5-15 -- chapter 13 Louise I. Shelley (1994), {u2018}Post-Soviet Organized Crime: Implications for Economic, Social and Political Development{u2019}, Demokratizatsiya, 2, ppages 341-58 -- chapter 14 Alena V. Ledeneva (1998), {u2018}Organized Crime in Russia Today{u2019}, Jamestown Foundation Prism, 17 April, ppages 3, 7, 14, 15 -- chapter 15 Joseph Serio (1992), {u2018}Shunning Tradition: Ethnic Organized Crime in the Former Soviet Union{u2019}, Crime and Justice International, 8, ppages 5-6 -- part Part IV Russian Organized Crime and the Russian Economy -- chapter 16 Svetlana P. Glinkina (1994), {u2018}Privatizatsiya and Kriminalizatsiya: How Organized Crime Is Hijacking Privatization{u2019}, Demokratizatsiya, 2, ppages 385-91 -- chapter 17 Alena V. Ledeneva (1999), {u2018}Practices of Exchange and Networking in Russia{u2019}, Journal o f Financial Crime, 6, ppages 218-33 -- chapter 18 Vadim Volkov (1999), {u2018}Violent Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Russia{u2019}, Europe-Asia Studies, 51, ppages 741-54 -- chapter 19 Mark Galeotti (1998), {u2018}The Mafiya and the New Russia{u2019}, Australian Journal o f Politics and History, 44, ppages 415-29 -- part Part V Global Russian Organized Crime? -- chapter 20 Lydia S. Rosner (1995), {u2018}The Sexy Russian Mafia{u2019}, Criminal Organizations, 10, ppages 28-32 -- chapter 21 Phil Williams (1996), {u2018}Hysteria, Complacency and Russian Organized Crime{u2019}, PSBF Briefing (Royal Institute of International Affairs), 8, ppages 1-6 -- chapter 22 James Finckenauer and Elin Waring (1994), {u2018}Russian Emigré Crime in the United States: Organized Crime or Crime that is Organized?{u2019}, Transnational Organized Crime, 2, ppages 139-55 -- chapter 23 Mark Galeotti (2000), {u2018}Inside the Russian Mafiya{u2019}, Jane's Intelligence Review, March, ppages 8-9.

1. Introduction / Mark Galeotti -- 2. Security strategy : sovereign democracy and great power aspirations / Graeme Herd -- 3. The politics of security / Mark Smith -- 4. Civil-military relations and the security apparatus / Bettina Renz -- 5. Neither reform nor modernisation : the armed forces under and after Putin's command / Pavel Baev -- 6. Chechnya and regional security / C.W. Blandy -- 7. Nuclear arms control after a time of troubles / Stephen J. Cimbala -- 8. Terrorism, crime and the security forces / Mark Galeotti -- 9. The 'security economy' / Julian Cooper -- 10. Russia's unending quest for security / Stephen Blank.

The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the horrors of the Second World War, amounted almost to paranoia. This important study of the years since Brezhnev shows how this obsession with national security have been at the core of Russian thinking right through the reforms of the Gorbachev era and the eventual collapse of the USSR, and continues to dominate the turbulent politics of post-Soviet Russia today.

Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes that the new century will be defined in part by a struggle between an 'upperworld', defined by increasingly open economic systems and democratic politics, and a transnational, entrepreneurial, dynamic and richly varied underworld, willing and able to use and distort these trends for its own ends. In o

Fully up-to-date to reflect the evolving Medvedev presidency, the 2008 Georgian war and the impact of the economic downturn, this volume is a much needed objective and balanced examination of the ways in which security has played and continues to play a central role in contemporary Russian politics.