Harald Müller, Hans-Joachim Schmidt

In February 2010 the new Russian military doctrine was published. It contains the political, strategical and economical guidelines of the Russian military for the next ten til fiveteen years. Western observers criticise that NATO is labelled as "main threat" for Russian security and are bothered by the lack of hints for negotiations upon sub-strategic nuclear weapons.

Hans-Joachim Schmidt and Harald Müller have a closer look at the doctrine and find that the one-sided critics fall too short. The authors discover clear signals for a willigness to cooperate and find similarities to the western threat and danger analysis. In addition they discover hints for an ongoing dispute within the russian leadership that might open the door to new negotiations.