Daily Memo: Russia Announced Military Expansion Plan

The Defense Ministry introduced a series of changes to the armed forces.

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Military expansion. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced at an annual meeting of the ministry board on Wednesday a plan to increase the size of Russia’s armed forces from 1 million to 1.5 million. The age of conscription will also jump from 18 to 21. Shoigu said NATO’s expansion to Finland and Sweden necessitated the […]

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Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.

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