SAGE International Australia (SIA) Chairman of the Advisory Board, CDRE Patrick J. Tyrrell OBE RN (Ret'd) joins us this week to analyse the implications of the latest Russian military exercise ZAPAD 17.

What was behind this massive display of Russian military power? Was is designed to frighten a weak and dishevelled European Union, especially the former Soviet occupied Eastern Europe? Was it to send a message to Ukraine? The Baltic States? Or was this show of force simply part of ongoing Russian military modernisation. What, if anything does it say of Russian military capabilities?

CDRE Patrick J. Tyrrell OBE RN (Ret'd)

> https://www.sageinternational.org.au/about/management-board/

Links

> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/world/europe/russia-military-exercise-zapad-west.html

> http://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-got-away-masking-war-game-more-40000-troops-676315

> https://jamestown.org/program/zapad-2017-lessons-learned-russia-implications-nato/

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