The Russian Navy as a Military Instrument of Global Politics: Prospects for Development

... seas, in particular the strengthening of the amphibious forces as the most effective instrument to exert military and political pressure and to intervene in political and humanitarian crises far away from Russia’s borders. Prospects for Russian Navy amphibious forces development in the wake of the cancelled Mistral contract: ships and equipment Recent events testify to the fact that the experts promoting the idea of developing the Russian Navy first and foremost as a coastal fleet, capable of controlling the 200-mile exclusive economic zone in peacetime and of defending our seacoast during the war, proved to be wrong. Russia has political and economic interests away from its shores. Moreover,...