Финальная война Америки. 2024

^1. Janna Kadri, “Putin: A Champion of the Global South?” Al Mayadeen, March 25, 2024.

^2. Katie Crombe and John A. Nagl, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force,” Parameters 53, no. 3 (USAWC Press, Autumn 2023): 25.

^3. “Echo chamber,” Dictionary.com

^4. Corelli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1972), 50.

^5. Michael Brenner, “Lowering the Throne of America’s Delusion,” Consortium News, January 5, 2022.

^6. Там же.

^7. Alexis de Tocqueville (Henry Reeve, trans.), Democracy in America, Chapter 16 (The University of Adelaide, 1835).

^8. “Quotes: H.L. Mencken, Good Reads”

^9. Мишустин посоветовал студентам получать техническое образование [Mishustin advised students to get technical education], Vzglyad, March 13, 2020.

^10. Путин считает спорным отнесение политологии к науке [Putin considers it debatable to refer to political science as science], TASS, July 7, 2022.

^11. Andrei Martyanov, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2019), 1.

^12. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Oxford University Press, 1983 Rev. Ed.), 170.

^13. James Bruno, “Russian Diplomats Are Eating America’s Lunch,” Politico, April 16, 2014.

^14. Tom Nichols, “How America Lost Faith in Expertise: And Why That’s a Giant Problem,” Foreign Affairs 96, no. 2 (March/April 2017).

^15. Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1963), 34.

^16. Там же.

^17. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 23.

^18. Robert H. Latiff, Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), 131.

^19. Norman Polmar and Jurrien S. Noot, Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718–1990 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991), 215

^20. Commander Leo Murphy, To Catch the Quiet Ones (U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, July 1997), 60.

^21. Anthony Cordesman and Abraham R. Wagner, Lessons of the Gulf War: 1990–1991 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013), 6.

^22. Stephen Biddle, Military Power. Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton University Press, 2004), 133.

^23. James Slagle, “New Russian Military Doctrine: Sign of the Times,” Parameters 24 (Spring 1994): 94.

^24. Roger N. McDermott, Russian Perspective on Network Centric Warfare: The Key Aim of Serdyukov’s Reform [report] (U.S. Military Foreign Military Studies Office, 2010), 3.

^25. “The lessons Moscow learned from the 1991 Gulf War and the 2015 Syria intervention reveal much about the strategy, tactics, and weapons systems it might use (or already be using) in Ukraine.” Anna Borshchevskaya, “Russia’s Desert Storm: Putin’s Plan to Use America’s Military Playbook Against Ukraine?” [policy analysis], The Washington Institute for Near East Policy,January 23,2022.

^26. Angelo M. Codevilla, America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams (Encounter Books, 2022), ix.

^27. “Strategy,” Cambridge Dictionary.

^28. “Strategy,” Russian Academic Dictionary

^29. Alexander A. Svechin, Strategy (Minneapolis, Minnesota: East View Information Services, 2004), 94.

^30. Giulio Douhet, The Command of the Air (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 2019), 33–34.

^31. Hillary St. George Saunders, The Royal Air Force 1939–1945. Vol III, The Fight Is Won (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1954), 167–68.

^32. Andrei Martyanov, Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2018), 131–32.

^33. Там же., 132.

^34. Norman Friedman, Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009), 240.

^35. Svechin, Strategy, 80.

^36. Captain A.T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1890), 414.

^37. Там же., 539–40.

^38. Andrew K. Blackley, “Toward a New Navalism,” Proceedings Vol. 147/12/1426 (December 2021).

^39. Nicholas J. Danby, “The Roots of Roosevelt’s Navalism,” Naval History Magazine 35, no. 1 (February 2021).

^40. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 541.

^41. Sergey Georgievich Gorshkov, The Sea Power of the State (Krieger Publishing Co., 1983), 3.

^42. Blackley, Toward a New Navalism.

^43. 16”/50 (40.6 cm) Mark 7

^44. George W. Baer, One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The US Navy, 1890–1990 (Stanford University Press, 1994), 361.

^45. Там же., 451.

^46. Там же., 286.

^47. E. B. Potter (ed.) and Chester W. Nimitz (assoc. ed.), Sea Power. A Naval History (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960), 881.

^48. Svechin, Strategy, 115.

^49. Alexandr Rogers, Разница между стратегическим и проектным мышлением [The Difference between strategic and business project thinking], lecture, YouTube video [23:49], May 5, 2023.

^50. Richard Pipes, “Why the Soviet Union Thinks It Could Fight & Win a Nuclear War,” commentary, July 1977.

^51. Lester W. Grau and Charles K. Bartles, The Russian Way of War: Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces (Foreign Military Studies Office, 2016), 10.

^52. Mark Milley, “Strategic Inflection Point: The Most Historically Significant and Fundamental Change in the Character of War Is Happening Now - While the Future Is Clouded in Mist and Uncertainty,” Joint Force Quarterly 110 (3rd Quarter, July 2023).

^53. Carl Von Clausewitz, On War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), 627.

^54. Anthony Cordesman and Abraham R. Wagner, Lessons of the Gulf War: 1990–1991 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013), 941.

^55. Michael Peck, “Losses in Ukraine are ‘out of proportion’ to what NATO has been planning for, the alliance’s top general says,” Business Insider, February 5, 2023. The video of Christopher’s Cavoli remarks could be seen on YouTube at “Hard power is a reality” – Christopher G. Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) [20:05], Folk och Försvar channel, January 9, 2023.

^56. Natalie Brunell, Col. Douglas Macgregor on Threat of WW3, American Dream vs. Foreign Empire, Financial System Risks, video podcast [35:58], YouTube, November 9, 2023.

^57. Федеральный закон от 28.12.2010 г. № 390-ФЗ О безопасности [Federal Law from 12/28/2010 # 390-FZ, About Security].

^58. Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23 июля 2013 г. № 631. Положение о Генеральном штабе Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации [Order of the President of Russian Federation from 23 July 2013, # 631. Regulations on the General Staff of Armed Forces of Russian Federation]. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/37481

^59. Mark Milley, “Strategic Inflection Point.”

^60. Seth Cropsey, “Mark Milley’s bureaucratic proposals could lose us the next war,” The Hill, July 24, 2023.

^61. Там же.

^62. Drew Middleton, “Hitler’s Russian blunder,” New York Times, June 21, 1981.

^63. Там же.

^64. “Transcript: President Obama Iraq speech,” BBC News, December 15, 2011.

^65. Там же.

^66. Svechin, Strategy, 115.

^67. Robert H. Latiff, Future War. Preparing For the New Global Battlefield (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), 130–31.

^68. David M. Glantz, The Soviet-German War 1941–1945, Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay, paper Presented at the 20th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture at the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs (Clemson University, October 11, 2001), 5.

^69. Ukraine turning into a Graveyard w/Col Douglas Macgregor. YouTube video [24:54], Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom channel, August 3, 2023.

^70. Douglas Macgregor, Margin of Victory: Five Battles That Changed the Face of Modern War (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2016), 71.

^71.Ян Моррис, «Все банально на Западном фронте» [“All Trite on the Western Front”], The Guardian, 2 декабря 2006 г.

Макгрегор основывал свои необоснованные утверждения на крайне самоуверенном и ориентированном на повестку дня, не в последнюю очередь из-за пропольской предвзятости, трактате из книги Нормана Дэвиса «Нет простой победы»: Вторая мировая война в Европе, 1939–1945 гг. [ No Simple Victory: World War In Europe, 1939–1945] Даже Guardian отметил «польский национализм» Дэвиса в своей разрушительной рецензии на его книгу и отсутствие проверки фактов.

Увы, если это, возможно, и является милым признаком преклонных лет, не столь простительна небрежность этой книги. Французский флот, безусловно, не был потоплен со всем экипажем в Мерс-эль-Кебире. Тревор-Ропер, безусловно, никогда не писал книгу под названием «Последние дни Рейха» [The Last Days of the Reich]. Джеффри Лоуренс не был главным обвинителем на Нюрнбергском процессе, а Линдберг не был первым человеком, который перелетел Атлантику без остановок. Военные британские женские военные силы назывались ATS, а не WRAC. Коммерческая журналистика определенно не была «в младенчестве» во время Второй мировой войны. И как вам несколько трюизмов Дэвиса, выдернутых из рога изобилия? «Война — это, прежде всего, сражения и убийства». «Мужество и добродетель не были прерогативой бойцов союзников». «Каждый из 10 миллионов [военнопленных] был индивидуальностью». «Солдатское дело — это профессия, участники которой всегда рисковали смертью, ранениями и увечьями». «Все солдаты должны быть обучены». «Все страны содержат тюрьмы для содержания преступников». Вы не говорите, профессор! … И если я осмелюсь закончить на анахроничной ноте: Дэвис определенно не хвалит Великобританию или любую другую страну (за исключением, возможно, его любимой Польши, и кого это может возмущать?).

^72. Sun Tzu on The Art of War (Allandale Online Publishing, 2000), 11.

^73. Director of National Intelligence Files, Counterintelligence Reader Vol. 3, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Counterintelligence and Security Center, 112–14. https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/ci/CI_Reader_Vol3.pdf

^74. Anton Kurilkin, «Других экспертов у меня для вас нет, или что не так с Юлией Иоффе» [I don’t have other experts for you, or what is wrong with Julia Ioffe], Medium, January 14, 2018.

^75. Rebekah Koffler, Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America (Regnery Gateway, Kindle Edition, July 27, 2021), 316.

^76. Putin’s Playbook book page, Amazon.

^77. Rebekah Koffler, Putin’s Playbook, 7.

^78. Mallory Shelbourne, “HASC Agrees to Navy’s Plans to Shed Littoral Combat Ships,Moves to Abolish CAPE, USNI News June 12, 2023

^79. Casey Michel, “Decolonize Russia,” TheAtlantic, May 27, 2022.

^80. GDP (current US$) – United States, Russian Federation, World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

^81. Fadi Lama, Why the West Can’t Win: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2023), 79–80.

^82. Public debt of the United States from January 2013 to September 2023, by month. Statista.

^83. RussiaPublicDomesticDebt. Trading Economics.

^84. Объем ВВП [The volume of GDP 2013], Rosstat.

^85. Angelika Hellemann, Lydia Rosenfelder and Wolf Lux (photos) “Erstes Interview mit Neu-Verteidigungsministerin Lambrecht: ‘Wir müssen Putin ins Visier nehmen,’” Bild, December 19, 2021

^86. Alexader Grishin, «Министр обороны Германии призвала закрыть для Путина и его окружения Париж. Чтобы они не смогли совершить шопинг на Елисейских полях,» Komsomolskaya Pravda, December 19, 2021.

^87. Total energy production/consumption, 2021, World Energy & Climate Statistics – Yearbook.

^88. Там же.

^89. December 2021 crude steel production and 2021 global crude steel production totals.World Steel.

^90. Melissa Pestilli, “Top 10 Aluminum-producing Countries,” Investing News, September 5,2023.

^91. “UNESCO Reveals Countries Producing the Highest No. of STEM Graduates,” Scoonews, December 3, 2020.

^92. Pig iron 2020 and 2021. 2022 World Steel in Figures.

^93. Russia will not lose’ – EU member state. Hungary’s Viktor Orban says the West should accept ‘reality’ and come upУдивительные приключения в стране Экономика with a Plan B,” RT, November 27, 2023.

^94. Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation, December 17, 2021.

^95. Steven Pifer, “Russia’s draft agreements with NATO and the United States: Intended for rejection?”Brookings, December 21, 2021.

^96. Там же.

^97. “Trump charges are political persecution – Putin,” RT, September 12, 2023.

^98. Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2021), 227.

^99. Alisa Sakharova, «Как начиналась спецоперация: хронология событий 24 февраля 2022-го» [How the special operation started: Chronology of the events of 24 February 2022],Channel 5, February 24, 2022.

^100. «Текст обращения президента России Владимира Путина» [Text of address of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin], February 24, 2022.

^101. “Remarks by President Biden on Russia’s Unprovoked and Unjustified Attack on Ukraine", White House, February 24, 2022.

^102. “OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 19/2022 issued on 22 February 2022,” Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, February 22, 2022.

^103. Chris Van Hollen, “Israel’s war against Hamas is just, but it must be fought justly,” The Washington Post, December 6, 2023.

^104. Біла книга 2021. Оборонна політика України [White Book 2021: Defense Policy of Ukraine] (Kiev: Ukraine Defense Ministry, 2022), 33.

^105. «Аспекты мобилизации: к вопросу о тенденциях развития Вооружённых сил Украины» [Aspects of Mobilization: The issue of trends in development of Armed Forces of Ukraine], Lost Armor.

^106. Jakub Przetacznik with Linda Tothova, Russia’s war on Ukraine: Military balance of power, European Parliamentary Research Service PE 729.292, March 2022. EPRS_ATA(2022)729292_EN.pdf

^107. Alexander Khramchihin, «Насколько страшна украинская ПВО» [How scary is Ukrainian Air Defense], Независимое Военное Обозрение [Independent Miltary Review], February 10, 2022.

^108. Jamie McIntyre, “US and NATO credit eight years of Western training for Ukraine’s combat prowess, WashingtonExaminer, April 1, 2022.

^109. Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, “U.S. and Ukraine Search for a New Strategy After Failed Counteroffensive, The New York Times, December 11, 2023.

^110. Там же.

^111. David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press Of Kansas, 2015), 256–57.

^112. Staff Organization and Operations, FM 101-5, Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington D.C., May 31, 1997, p. 1-1.

^113. Patrick C. Sweeney, Operational Art Primer, United States Naval War College, Joint Military Operations Department. July 16, 2010, p.2.

^114. Milan Vego, “On Operational Leadership,” Joint Force Quarterly 2nd Quarter (April 2015).

^115. Alexey Leonkov, Andrei Ermolaev, Artyom Mikhailov, «Ракетное вооружение для самолетов пятого поколения» [Missile armament for the fifth generation aircraft], Arsenal Otechestva [Arsenal of Fatherland], August 29, 2023.

^116. Rick Atkinson, “Introduction,” in George S. Patton, Jr., War as I knew It (1995), xv-xvi.

^117. «ВС РФ рассматривали два варианта спецоперации: в границах ДНР и ЛНР или на всей Украине» [Armed Forces considered two variants of special operation: within borders DNR and LNR or at the whole of Ukraine, TASS, march 25. 2022

^118. Anton Troianovski, “Hopes for a peace deal center on negotiators at a palace in Istanbul,” TheNewYorkTimes, March 29, 2022.

^119. “Ukraine conflict could have ended in Spring 2022 – Kiev’s top MP,” RT, November 24,2023.

^120. Roman Romanyuk, «От „капитуляции“ Зеленского до капитуляции Путина. Как идут переговоры с Россией» [From “capitulation” of Zelensky to capitulation of Putin. How the negotiations with Russia are progressing] Ukrainian Pravda, May 5, 2023.

^121. “Johnson and Biden discussed boosting support for Ukraine-Downing Street,” Reuters, April 12, 2022.

^122. Alex Vershinin, “The Return of Industrial Warfare,” Royal United Service Institute (RUSI),June 17, 2022

^123. Там же.

^124. Joshua Waddell, “Innovation and Other Things that Brief Well,” Small Wars Journal, February 8, 2017.

^125. Fadi Lama, Why the West Can’t Win, 37.

^126. November 2023 Crude Steel Production, Worldsteel Association, Brussels, December 21, 2023.

^127. Sultan Khalid, “16 Largest Pig Iron Producing Countries,” Yahoo! Finance, May 26, 2023.

^128. November 2023 Crude Steel Production, Worldsteel Association, Brussels, December 21, 2023.

^129. Melissa Pestilli, Top 10 Aluminum-producing Countries.

^130. Eleanor Watson, “Russians are using semiconductors from kitchen appliances in military equipment, says U.S. commerce secretary,” CBS News, May 14, 2022.

^131. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce.

^132. «Доморощенный кремний. Сможет ли Россия обойтись без импортных микрочипов» [Homegrown silicon. Will Russia be able to do without import microchips], Ria.Ru, April 21, 2022.

^133. «В России создали комплекс для выпуска микроэлектронных наноструктур» [Russia has created complex for fabrication of microelectronic nanostructures], Ria.Ru, March 10, 2023.

^134. “War in Ukraine: Is Russia’s stock of weapons running low?” BBC News, October 13, 2022.

^135. Louise Jones. LinkedIn profile.

^136. Andrew Chuter, “British Army admits more delays in fielding enough combat forces,” DefenseNews, October 12, 2020.

^137. Martyanov, Losing Military Supremacy, 179.

^138. Там же.

^139. John Ismay, “Russian Cruise Missiles Were Made Just Months Ago Despite Sanctions, TheNewYorkTimes,December 5, 2022.

^140. “Dating newly produced Russian missiles used in Kyiv attacks. Ukraine Field Dispatch,” Conflict Armament Research, December 2022 (updated December 2023).

^141. Thomas Newdick, “Let’s Talk About Russia’s New Long-Range Kh-BD Cruise Missile,” The Drive,September 19, 1023.

^142. “Tomahawk,” MissileThreat, updated February 28, 2023.

^143. “Kh-101/Kh-102,” MissileThreat, updated July 21, 2021.

^144. Rachel Cohen and Joe Gould, “With a mix of donated weapons, Ukraine’s defenders adapt in war,” AirForceTimes, September 28, 2022.

^145. Joseph Trevithick, “Russian Kh-101 Cruise Missile Filmed Firing-Off Decoy Flares,” The Drive, December 29, 2023.

^146. Anton Valagin, «Дальность полета ракеты „Калибр“ увеличат вдвое» [The Range of “Kalibr” missile will be increased two fold], Rossiiskaya Gazeta, January 8, 2019.

^147. «Новый „Калибр-М“ меняет глобальные правила игры» [New “Kalibr-M” changes the global rules of the game], video report [4:15], Super.Uralov YouTube channel, October 25, 2020.

^148. National Cruise Missile Defense: Issues and Alternatives, Congressional Budget Office, February 2021, p. 10, Fig. 1-2.

^149. Там же., p. 14, Fig. 2-1.

^150. Martyanov, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs, 90.

^151. Peter Mitchell, “Hypersonic Hype? Russia’s Kinzhal Missiles and the Lessons for Air Defense,” Modern War Institute at West Point, May 23, 2023.

^152. “Patriot missile system in Ukraine likely ‘damaged’: Report,” Al Jazeera, May 17, 2023.

^153. David Axe, “Why Did American Patriot Missiles Fail To Stop the Houthi’s Attacks?” The National Interest, December 10, 2021.

^154. Ivan Petrov, «ВКС России дважды поразили ранее неуязвимый зенитный ракетный комплекс США» [Russia’s VKS struck second earlier considered invulnerable American air defense complex], Rossiiyskaya Gazeta, May 31, 2023.

^155. Bill Gertz, “U.S. sensors unable to track Chinese, Russian hypersonic missiles, says congressional report,” TheWashingtonTimes, October 11, 2022.

^156. “Russia Quintupled Production of Kinzhal Hypersonic Missiles Before Destruction of Patriot System – Reports,” MilitaryWatchMagazine, May 23, 2023.

^157. “Russia has launched about 8,000 missiles against Ukraine since start of invasion, air force says", The New Voice of Ukraine, May 17, 2023.

^158. Davis Centiotti, “Kinzhal Hypersonic Aero-Ballistic Missile Used By Su-34 In Ukraine For The First Time – Reports,” The Aviationist, September 4, 2023.

^159. Katie Krombe and John A. Nagl, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force,” Parameters (Autumn 2023): 24.

^160. Laurence Peter, “How Ukraine’s ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ legendary pilot was born,” BBC, May 1, 2022.

^161. Там же.

^162. Russian Defense Ministry Update, Official Defense Ministry TG Channel, . January 19,

^163. Chiffres clés de la Défense – 2021 (Ministere Des Armees, 2021), 23–24.

^164. Sarah Al-Arshani, “Sen. Mark Kelly flew with Russian pilots in the Navy and with NASA, and he said the Russian fighter jet running into a US drone shows ‘how incompetent they are,’” Business Insider, March 19, 2023.

^165. Justin Bronk, “The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force,” RUSI, February 28, 2022.

^166. Weltkrieg in Nahost: US-Colonel Macgregor über die grössten Gefahren der Gegenwart [World War in the Middle East: US Colonel Macgregor on the greatest dangers of the present], Die Weltwoche interview [1:31:10], YouTube, January 14, 2024.

^167. Anthony Cordesman and Abraham R. Wagner, Lessons of the Gulf War: 1990–1991 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013), vii.

^168. Там же., 372.

^169. Alexandr Khramchikhin, «Насколько страшна украинская ПВО» [How Scary is Ukrainian Air Defense], Независимое Военное Обозрение [Independent Miltary Review], February 10, 2022.

^170. Dmitry Gorenburg, “Russia’s Syria Operation Reveals Significant Improvement in Military Capability,” The National Interest, November 16, 2015.

^171. The Depot-Level Maintenance of DoD’s Combat Aircraft: Insights for the F-35, Congressional Budget Office report (February 2018), 7. Congressional Budget Office report (February 2018), 7.

^172. «Истребители переходного периода» [Fighters of a transitional period], Kommersant, August 21, 2007.

^173. «Глава Ростеха сравнил стоимость летного часа Checkmate и F-35» [The head of Rostec compared the cost of flight hour of Checkmate and F-35], Sibnet.Ru, April 11, 2021.

^174. “Boeing to extend USAF F-15 fleet service life,” Air Force Technology, November 25, 2011.

^175. Hercules Reyes, “F-35 Not as ‘Survivable’ as Thought: House Armed Services Committee Chief,” The Defense Post, September 1, 2021.

^176. Sergei Andreev, «Удар по элите ВВС: Почему Киев потерял всех опытных лётчиков-истребителей» [The strike at Air Force elite: Why Kiev lost all experienced fighter pilots], life.ru August 16, 2022.

^177. Там же.

^178. Maxim Tucker, “Ukraine air chief: my best pilots are dying while we wait for F-16s, The Times, March 19, 2023.

^179. “The US military ‘gets its ass handed to it’ in World War 3 simulation – researchers,” RT, March 11, 2019.

^180. Там же.

^181. Ashish Dangwal, “First Kill? Russian Su-57 Stealth Fighter Downs Ukrainian Su-27 Jet With New Long-Range Missile – Media Claims,” The Eurasian Times, October 19, 2022.

^182. Dmitry Kornev, «‘Длинная рука’: ракета Р-37М расширила возможности ВКС РФ по уничтожению воздушных целей» [“Long hand”: R-37 expanded capabilities of Russia’s VKS in killing aerial targets], RossiiskayaGazeta, December 11, 2023.

^183. «Источник: новая российская ракета показала уникальную точность в рамках СВО» [Source: new Russian missile has shown a unique accuracy during SMO], Ria.ru, March 11, 2023.

^184. Kh-31PD High-speed anti-radar missile, Rosoboronexport presentation, YouTube. April 14, 2023.

^185. “AMRAAM: Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile,” NAVAIR, Naval Air Systems Command.

^186. Anton Valagin, «Российская система ПВО установила мировой рекорд» [Russian Air Defense system set the world record], Rossiiskaya Gazeta, October 16, 2022.

^187. Viktor Bodrov, «Заглянуть за горизонт: как ВС РФ уничтожают украинские самолеты на сверхдальних дистанциях» [To look beyond the horizon: How Russian VKS shoot down Ukrainian aircraft at the extreme range], TASS, November 21, 2023.

^188. Combat Aircraft Journal 24, no.6 (June 2023): front page.

^189. Martyanov, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs, 121–22.

^190. Jon Lake, “From Seven to Four,” Combat Aircraft Journal 24, no. 6 (June 2023): 29.

^191. Там же., 30.

^192. Scott Ritter: Russia and the Middle East, YouTube video [1:07:02], Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom channel, January 30, 2024.

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^199. Alex Horton, John Hudson, Isabelle Khurshudyan and Samuel Oakford, “U.S. doubts Ukraine counteroffensive will yield big gains, leaked document says,” The Washington Post, April 10, 2023.

^200. Там же.

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^222. «Кремль отреагировал на публикацию о якобы желании Пригожина сдать позиции ВС РФ» [Kremlin reacted to publication of alleged Prigozhin’s desire to give up positions of Russian Armed Forces], Lenta.ru, May 15, 2023.

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^230. Richard Pipes, “Why the Soviet Union Thinks It Could Fight & Win a Nuclear War,” Commentary, July 1977.

^231. Там же.

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^235. «Источник назвал незначительными повреждения подлодки „Ростов-на-Дону“» [The source called the damage to submarine Rostov-on-Don insignificant], TASS, September 24, 2023.

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^250. Patrick Smith, “Russian troops ‘forced to fight with shovels’ as ammo shortage undermines Bakhmut advance,” NBC News, March 6, 2023.

^251. Valeria Gorodetskaya, «Украинский военный рассказал об участии ОБСЕ в постановочных съемках про «‘успехи’ ВСУ» [Ukrainian military told about participation of OSCE in staged reporting about “successes” of AFU],Vz.ru, February 16, 2024.

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^256. Там же.

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^259. Там же., 7.

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^281. Там же.

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^291. Там же.

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^300. «Ожидания от космонавтики-2024: пуск „Ангары“, спутники и новые рекорды» [Expectations from cosmonautics-2024: The launch of “Angara,” satellites and new records], Ria.ru, January 11, 2024.

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^316. Там же.

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Об этом он заявил в августе 2021 года. Поэтому те, кто призывает мир поддержать требование о возвращении Украины к границам 1991 года, поддерживают призыв к геноциду. https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1923676/

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^355. Там же.

^356. Wayne Allensworth, “An Obsolete Alliance Turns 75,” Chronicles, March 2024, 15.

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