Russian aspirations in the Eastern Mediterranean date back to Peter the Great. Turkey, lying athwart the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, has often experienced Russian probes but has successfully resisted them with the alternating and occasionally combined support of Great Britain, France, and Germany
This article originally appeared in Articles of War, the online publication of the Lieber Institute ...
After the end of the Cold War, the new conjuncture that appeared in the region of the Black Sea turn...
This article describes the importance of the Black Sea basin and the Black Sea Straits in the operat...
In the Mediterranean, Soviet policy, posture, and activity over the past generation take their signi...
The Mediterranean Sea has always played an important role in European strategy. Since the days of Ho...
The presence of a significant Soviet naval force in the Mediterranean seems to represent a new eleme...
Following the Egyptian defeat in 1967, the Soviet Government significantly increased both its aid an...
The Soviet Union is now actively exerting strong worldwide political pressure by means of economic a...
The article explores the recent surge of Russian military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and ...
The recent deployment of Soviet warships to the Persian Gulf—despite their limited number—constitute...
The Soviet Union\u27s efforts to build a powerful fleet, its interest in a naval station to serve it...
Since their 1955 arms deal with Egypt, Soviet policymakers have sought to establish the Soviet Union...
The article considers the main directions of the Russian Federation’s foreign policy in the Mediterr...
At the time of Nasser\u27s death the Soviet Union had reached the pinnacle of its influence in Egypt...
The article refers to “the problem of the straits” and the entry into the Black Sea of the Soviet wa...
This article originally appeared in Articles of War, the online publication of the Lieber Institute ...
After the end of the Cold War, the new conjuncture that appeared in the region of the Black Sea turn...
This article describes the importance of the Black Sea basin and the Black Sea Straits in the operat...
In the Mediterranean, Soviet policy, posture, and activity over the past generation take their signi...
The Mediterranean Sea has always played an important role in European strategy. Since the days of Ho...
The presence of a significant Soviet naval force in the Mediterranean seems to represent a new eleme...
Following the Egyptian defeat in 1967, the Soviet Government significantly increased both its aid an...
The Soviet Union is now actively exerting strong worldwide political pressure by means of economic a...
The article explores the recent surge of Russian military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and ...
The recent deployment of Soviet warships to the Persian Gulf—despite their limited number—constitute...
The Soviet Union\u27s efforts to build a powerful fleet, its interest in a naval station to serve it...
Since their 1955 arms deal with Egypt, Soviet policymakers have sought to establish the Soviet Union...
The article considers the main directions of the Russian Federation’s foreign policy in the Mediterr...
At the time of Nasser\u27s death the Soviet Union had reached the pinnacle of its influence in Egypt...
The article refers to “the problem of the straits” and the entry into the Black Sea of the Soviet wa...
This article originally appeared in Articles of War, the online publication of the Lieber Institute ...
After the end of the Cold War, the new conjuncture that appeared in the region of the Black Sea turn...
This article describes the importance of the Black Sea basin and the Black Sea Straits in the operat...