In the 1980s and 1990s, I was a member of the Russian studies group sponsored by the Brookings Institution.  In the 1980s, members of the Reagan administration would present papers that inflated the military and economic power of the Soviet Union to justify increased U.S. defense spending.  In the 1990s, members of the Clinton administration More

The post Understanding Russian National Security appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.