Civil-Military Relations in Medvedev?s Russia

The best recent scholarship on Russian civil-military relations explicitly addresses this issue’s importance for both domestic and external security. Thomas Gomart has written that, Through the civil-military relationship the nature of a state’s politico-strategic project can be assessed, that is, what is its understanding of the world; what resources does it have available, what is its willingness to modify its international environment. Studying the civil-military relationship also makes clear current modes of power, the sharing of responsibility in security matters, and in certain cases the will to act.