Updated Russian military doctrine has no preemptive nuclear strike provision - source

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  • Updated Russian military doctrine has no preemptive nuclear strike provision - source - Interfax
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    A new edition of the Russian military doctrine does not contain a preemptive nuclear strike provision but it clearly defines circumstances under which strategic nuclear forces can be used, a source involved in the drafting of the document told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.

    The updated version of the military doctrine will not have a provision regarding a possible preemptive nuclear strike on a potential enemy. Article 18 of this document clearly defines conditions for the use of strategic armaments of the Russian nuclear triad. That will be possible if the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation are threatened with destruction,” he said.

    Persistent proposals have been made [during expert discussions] to include a provision allowing for the possibility of nuclear strikes on the territory of a potential aggressor or a group of countries in the updated military doctrine,” the source noted.

    • Depuis un mois, la publication prochaine de ces éléments de doctrine agite quelques rédactions.

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      Russia’s updated military doctrine is expected to target Nato and the US more clearly as the Ukraine crisis has frayed Moscow’s relations with the western alliance.
      The current doctrine only lists Nato expansion, foreign troop deployments in neighbouring states, destabilisation in certain countries and deployment of missile defence systems as “external military dangers”.

      People familiar with the document said Nato and the US would be openly designated as threats or adversaries in the document’s new version, due to be published next month.
      Russian diplomats and analysts also said Moscow hoped to build the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, founded by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tadjikistan in 1996, into a more meaningful security alliance.

      In a speech last month that left western observers bewildered for its rabid anti-Americanism and its lack of proposals for a positive agenda, Mr Putin bemoaned what he described as the destruction of the mechanisms that used to govern international security affairs.

      Sadly, there is no guarantee and no certainty that the current system of global and regional security is able to protect us from upheavals. This system has become seriously weakened, fragmented and deformed,” Mr Putin said. He accused the US of creating a world order in which brute force could become the only means for resolving conflicts.