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Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military

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The Russian Army in 1993 or 1994

The Russian army in 1993 or 1994 was 'catastrophically bad', writes Peter Bergen. The Soviet state had been unable to pay for and properly house its soldiers, he says. "You have a sense that basically what's the army for these days? There's a huge moral enemy amongst them"

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