Tag Pavel Felgenhauer

Will there be war?

Pavel Felgenhauer, the veteran Russian military observer, asks: Russia’s Attack of Ukrainian Naval Ships in Black Sea: First Shots of Possible Winter War? Anything is possible. “It can’t happen because it can’t happen, ever,” the time-honored Russian appeal to the self-evident,…

Up in smoke

Pavel Felgenhauer, the veteran Russian military observer (I recall reading him in 1992 or 93), sees the Admiral Kuznetsov‘s journey to the Levant as an argument for more funding, advanced by the Russian admirals to erode opposition from the finance ministry and the “tank…