title: Getting Gerasimov Right
abstract: On 26 February 2013, chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov published Value of Science Is in the Foresight: New Challenges Demand Rethinking the Forms and Methods of Carrying out Combat Operations in Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kurier (VPK) (Military-Industrial Courier). In this article, Gerasimov lays out his perspective-and the prevalent view in Russian security circles-of the recent past, present, and expected future of This article was published about a year before the Maidan pro
journal: Military review