Explaining DME Activity: Russia Relative Strengths and Weaknesses Within its Strategic Environment Strengths Natural Resources. Russia’s huge natural resources are the most powerful strength of Russia within its strategic environment. Russia’s natural resources make 20% of the world natural resources alone. Large reserves of oil and gas, minerals, ores, diamonds, and forests, they all provide...
Discerning Russia’s Strategy: Diplomatic, Military and Economic (DME) Activity Diplomatic The foreign policy of Russia has grown more forceful and assertive in the past few years than early; it was in two decades after independence. Either it was the 2008 Georgian war or Crimean confiscation in 2014, Country’s interference in Eastern Ukraine or the deployment of Russian forces in the Civil war of...
Executive Summary and Recommendations Purpose. This country report is developed in order to meet the requirements of the Diplomatic Course for Defence Attaché Preparation. Summary. Russia, with an area of 17 million square kilometres, is the largest country on earth having vast natural resources, especially affluent in oil and gas. The former world power is re-emerging from a decade of post...