Guests: Michael Kofman is Research Scientist at Center for Naval Analyses and Fellow at the Kennan Institute where he specializes in security and defense in Eurasia. He comments widely on Russian military affairs and foreign policy. He also blogs on the Russian military at his site Russian Military Analysis. You can also find a long list of his many recent publications there as well. Dmitry Gorenburg is Senior Research Scientist in the Strategy, Policy, Plans, and Programs division of Center for Naval Analyses since 2000 and an associate at the Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He currently serves as editor of Problems of Post-Communism. Gorenburg is author of Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. He has published widely and comments on all things related to the Russian military on his blog Russian Military Reform. Music: Einsturzende Neubauten, Der 1. Weltkrieg, Lament, 2014.