Russian Strategic Missile Forces Begin War Games To Prevent a Nuclear War!

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  Russian Strategic Missile Forces Begin War Games to Prevent a Nuclear War! 
  by http://larouchepac.com/ 
  Top Russian authorities are continuing their determined efforts to derail the drive for war coming from the Obama administration and the British Empire.
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  The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that command-staff exercises of the Strategic Missile Forces are now underway, from Sept. 4-7. They involve over 8,000 servicemen, 150 command points, and 300 individual weapons and other military equipment. The official news agency Itar-TASS reported, based on a press announcement made Sept. 4 by Ministry of Defense spokesman Vadim Koval, that the participants would “hone their nuclear deterrence objectives for the event of an armed conflict with the participation of Russia.” The term “nuclear deterrence objectives” refers to the ability of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces to “deter” a possible U.S. nuclear first strike against Russia, by their ability to inflict a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States.
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  Koval said that the scenarios would involve “nuclear deterrence in the setting of a threatened armed conflict with Russia’s participation, or during such a conflict.” The purpose of this training, he added, “is to improve coordination among Strategic Missile Forces command agencies, as well as the practical skills of the command staff and operational groups in directing the military command agencies, units, and troops subordinate to them, including through the use of modern automated command-and-control systems.” Koval said that the exercises are the final phase of Strategic Missile Corps training held this year.
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  As LPAC reported in January, Russian military sources already then made it known that this year’s September schedule of military exercises would feature complete, combined-arms integration. In particular, Nezavisimaya Gazeta‘s well-informed military analyst reported Jan. 17 that the Russian General Staff was mapping out “large-scale staff exercises based on a possible U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran”; this would happen in September, and would involve the Strategic Missile Forces. Furthermore, it was reported then, the script for the large Caucasus-2012 maneuvers would “differ from last year’s exercises in this series, by being larger-scale and more closely approximating actual current military and political conditions,” including a scenario of “a possible war by the U.S.A. and several other countries against Iran, as well as other possible conflicts in the Caspian and Southern Caucasus region.”
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  The Caucasus-2012 exercises are slated for Sept. 17-23. Russian defense sources have continued to describe them as “strategic.” Last week Russian and Georgian press reported that Russia had shifted the physical location of the training out of the Chechen Republic, in order to avoid giving Georgia’s Michael Saakashvili a pretext for any wild actions. Wednesday RIA Novosti reported the announcement by another Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman, Alexander Kucherenko, that Russian airborne forces will be involved in 10 different exercises this month, including the “strategic” Caucasus-2012, and international maneuvers with Belarus and with the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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  Strategic Missile Forces chief Gen. Sergey Karakayev, who is commanding the current command-staff exercises, told RIA Novosti on Sept. 3 that Russia will have a new intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by 2018, which is capable of penetrating the BMD system being put in place by the U.S. and NATO — as dramatically depicted on maps in LPAC’s recent video “Unsurvivable.” “It is necessary to note the new missiles’ ability to be invulnerable before launch, thanks to their mobility, as well as their ability to tackle the task of defeating any possible missile defense system within the next 15-20 years, should such a need arise,” Gen. Karakayev stated. An article in Russia Today notes that Karakayev’s comments show that Russia “is preparing an asymmetrical response by developing weapons capable of breaching the system.”

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