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\nThe US Army has branded Moscow the \u201cenemy\u201d while promoting a newly-published manual on the Russian military on social media. The Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate\u2019s (CADD) new 280-page manual gives a detailed overview of Russian military strategy and tactics, and tries to predict how the country would conduct itself in future conflicts. The CADD promoted the manual in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, asking, \u201cDo you know your enemy?\u201d
\nThe primary focus is on Moscow\u2019s ground forces, which would be pitted against the US Army in a hypothetical direct war.
\nThe document, known as ATP 7-100.1 and released last week, is part of a series that the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) has been developing for years. Previous publications provided similar studies of the militaries of other potential near-peer and peer opponents: North Korea, China, and Iran. The materials are not classified and intended for professional US and allied military officers.
\nWith Russia currently involved in the Ukraine conflict, US military researchers stressed that they are still examining data gathered there and would revise their instructions accordingly. They said it was \u201ctoo early to assess the structure and equipping of any Russian unit for the next 5 to 10 years\u201d with hostilities still ongoing.
\nDiscussing Russia\u2019s relations with the US and its NATO allies, the manual says they are defined \u201cby a perpetual state of competition and self interest.\u201d The country seeks recognition as a world power and it is \u201chighly likely\u201d that future Russian leaders will pursue policies similar to that of the current government \u201cfor the foreseeable future,\u201d it said; Russia will \u201cchallenge the relative position of US influence in the global order while avoiding direct confrontation with the US military.\u201d
\nThe Russian leadership views NATO as an instrument of American geopolitical hegemony and has called its expansion in Europe a threat to national security. The Ukraine conflict, according to Moscow, is part of a wider US-led proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainian troops are sacrificed in the name of containment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moscow The US Army has branded Moscow the \u201cenemy\u201d while promoting a newly-published manual on the Russian military on social media. The Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate\u2019s (CADD) new 280-page manual gives a detailed overview of Russian military strategy and tactics, and tries to predict how the country would conduct itself in future conflicts. The CADD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n