Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military
Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, host of the In Moscows’s Shadow podcast, and author of Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, joins the show to talk about the post-Cold War Russian Armed Forces.
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Show Notes
Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, host of the In Moscows’s Shadow podcast, and author of Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, joins the show to talk about the post-Cold War Russian Armed Forces.
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Times
• 02:13 Introduction
• 04:26 The peak
• 10:04 In decline
• 13:04 A day in the life of a ’90s Russian soldier
• 16:23 The First Chechen War
• 21:17 Putin and Chechnya
• 24:42 Russia’s claims
• 35:10 Modernization
• 40:49 Historical karma in Ukraine
• 46:10 Big picture
• 48:20 Ukraine’s counter-offensive
• 51:49 Wagner and Prigozhin