"The Chechen Wars Cast a Long Shadow" Topic
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Tango01 | 30 Mar 2015 12:43 p.m. PST |
"The TOS-1 thermobaric rocket launcher is a nasty reminder of the Chechen wars. The weapon is an anti-personnel, anti-fortification system that uses fuel-air explosives. It can literally tear the air from someone's lungs. The Kremlin used it extensively during the second Chechen war — which lasted from from 1999 to 2009. It was one of many brutal tools of a counter-insurgency strategy that saw Chechnya "returned" to the Russian Federation after winning de facto independence in 1996. According to Mark Galeotti's new book Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009, it's "worth questioning just how much of a victory this really was for Moscow." Galeotti is a Russian security analyst and professor at New York University. In the book, he asks — the terrible cost in lives and wealth aside, just what kind of bargain did Moscow make with Grozny to end the conflict?…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
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