The Russian Economy and Resources Available for Military Reform and Equipment Modernization

Abstract

The Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA)'s new Defence Economic Analysis team has undertaken a project to study the Russian economy and resources available for defence in order to assess the potential of the latest Russian military reform plan to become reality. The present memorandum, the first of two on this topic, looks at the current macroeconomic environment and the impact on planned defence expenditures and procurement objectives. Conclusions drawn from this study address a broad range of issues, ranging from the capacity of the industrial base to produce modern weapons to the country's looming demographic crisis. It is hoped that the findings will contribute to provide some perspective to Canadian defence partners in the interpretation of current and future events in the Russian Federation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA535395

Entities

People

  • T. Yazbeck

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Defense Industry
  • Defense Systems
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • Investments
  • Operations Research
  • Procurement
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Economics
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).