The Russian Military Today and Tomorrow: Essays in Memory of Mary Fitzgerald

Abstract

Mary Fitzgerald made many contributions to the national security field over the course of the years through her close reading of the writing of Soviet and Russian military officers. Particularly useful was her focus on those of Soviet military theorists who put forward forecasts of future warfare and the impact of technology on warfare. These Russian reviews deserved respect and study; Mary's work made this possible. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became easier to meet with and talk with a number to these Soviet officers so as to explore more fully their thinking and the continuing development of their ideas about future warfare, and the likely direction of the military revolution they had begun writing about in the late 1970s. Organizing meetings with them was greatly aided by Mary because of the good relations she had developed with several of these officers, who liked her as a person and were flattered that she had been so careful a readers of their writings.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA525166

Entities

People

  • Richard Weitz
  • Stephen J. Blank

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

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  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Military History
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Sociopolitics
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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.