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Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military

School of War

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The Importance of War Fighting Capacity

Vladimir Putin thinks he can build some kind of a positive relationship with the West. He doesn't understand the West because he's never really been in the West, says Peter Bergen. The more Russia tries to assert its great power through this essentially confrontational 19th century almost colonial way, writes Bergen. "He regards this as Western aggression"

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