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‘You Cannot Generate Ideas by Orders’: The Continuing Importance of Studying Soviet Military History—G. S. Isserson and Russia’s Current Geo-Political Stance

ABSTRACT The article shows, through an examination of recent public pronouncements, made by a number of prominent figures in Russia’s current military establishment, the continuing importance of an understanding of past Soviet military thought, particularly the work of G.S. Isserson. The article also advances the argument that if the West is to avoid being caught out by future Russian military action, it will have to ditch, once and for all, its decades-long assertion that Russia will not (cannot) represent a significant challenge to the West in any meaningful sense and, in its place, actively develop a deeper examination of Russian military and strategic policy.