Browsing by Author "Bukkvoll, Tor"
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The 2006 Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis - causes and potential for repetition
Koren, Knut Magnus; Bukkvoll, Tor (2007)Denne rapporten diskuterer årsakene til gasskrisen mellom Russland og Ukraina i januar 2006, og analyserer potensialet for at en lignende krise kan oppstå mellom de to landene på et senere tidspunkt. Denne tematikken er ... -
The defence industry as a locomotive for technological renewal in Russia: are the conditions in place?
Bukkvoll, Tor; Malmlöf, Tomas; Makienko, Konstantin (2017)This article examines the extent to which the conditions for successful military to civilian technological spin-offs are in place in Russia. This is important because Russian authorities use the potential for such spin-offs ... -
East or West? : Ukraine's quandary
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The Emergence of Russian Private Military Companies: A New Tool of Clandestine Warfare
Bukkvoll, Tor; Østensen, Åse Gilje (2020-03-19)In recent years, the Russian private security and military company (PMSC) industry has evolved to serve the needs of both business clients as well as governments. Thus far, the ties between the Kremlin and the Russian PMSC ... -
Fighting on behalf of the state—the issue of pro-government militia autonomy in the Donbas war
Bukkvoll, Tor (2019-01-04)This study investigates the degree of autonomy the Ukrainian volunteer battalions had from the regular forces during the war in Donbas. The findings indicate that the degree of autonomy was high and that in particular, ... -
Hvordan Putin ble overbevist om å gå til krig
Bukkvoll, Tor (2023-05-02)Russlands angrep på Ukraina 24. februar 2022 sjokkerte store deler av verden. Putins misnøye med utviklingen i Ukraina og landets tilnærming til Vesten var velkjent, men de fleste trodde lenge at han ikke ville gå til ... -
Iron Cannot Fight - The Role of Technology in Current Russian Military Theory
Bukkvoll, Tor (2011)Contemporary Russian military theory is dominated by three schools of thought: the ‘traditionalists’, the ‘modernists’ and the ‘revolutionaries’. On the role of technology in future warfare, the traditionalists argue for ... -
Krigen i Georgia : konsekvenser for Norge?
Bukkvoll, Tor; Glærum, Sigurd; Johansen, Iver; Pay, Jan H. (2009)Krigen i Georgia viser at Russland er villig til å bruke makt mot et naboland når forholdene ligger til rette for det. Den viser at Russland er i stand til å gjennomføre effektive operasjoner med høy intensitet, men også ... -
Liaisons dangereuses - political relationships in the NATO, Russia and Ukraine triangle
Bukkvoll, Tor; Kjølberg, Anders (2001)This study investigates the political interactions between three crucial actors on the European security arena: NATO, Russia and Ukraine. The point of departure is that Russian-Ukrainian relations are heavily dependent ... -
Military Innovation Under Authoritarian Government – the Case of Russian Special Operations Forces
Bukkvoll, Tor (Taylor & Francis, 2015-08-26)Russian Special Forces saw significant changes to both organization and doctrine in the years after 2008. The special forces of the General Staff’s Main Intelligence Directorate were reduced in number, the organization’s ... -
Military reform in Ukraine 2000-2007
Bukkvoll, Tor; Koren, Knut Magnus (2007)I de første 10 årene etter Ukrainas uavhengighet i 1991 hadde landet ingen gjennomtenkt retning på sin reform av de militære styrkene. I praksis bestod “reformen” i at den eksisterende organisasjonen mistet store mengder ... -
Russia in the Precision-Strike regime - military theory, procurement and operational impact
Bukkvoll, Tor; McDermott, Roger N (2017-08-01)This is a report about Russian thinking on the use of conventional high-precision weapons. It explains how this debate has developed in Russia since its inception in the mid-1980s, and analyses what Russian military ... -
Russian arms export to the developing world
Bukkvoll, Tor (2011-12-15)This report discusses Russian arms sales to the developing world against the background of often repeated allegations that Russia by its arms sales policy is behaving irresponsibly in terms of international peace and ... -
The Russian defence industry - status, reforms and prospects
Bukkvoll, Tor (2013-06-03)While the Russian military has undergone radical reform over the last four years, the same cannot be said about the Russian defence industry. This industry suffers from among other things a lack of innovation, low productivity, ... -
Russian Military Corruption - scale and causes
Bukkvoll, Tor (2005)This report discusses the scale of and the causes for the high level of military corruption in Russia. While it for obvious reasons is difficult to find hard data for the true scale of this phenomenon, it is still possible ... -
Russisk forsvarsutvikling frem mot 2020 : sluttrapport
Hakvåg, Una; Bukkvoll, Tor; Åtland, Kristian (2011-08-31)Russlands væpnede styrker er inne i en omfattende reform- og moderniseringsprosess. Sentrale stikkord i denne prosessen er profesjonalisering, gradvis nedbygging av den vernepliktsbaserte mobiliseringshæren, etablering ... -
Russisk våpenutvikling frem mot 2020
Andresen, Rolf-Inge Vogt; Bukkvoll, Tor (2009)Den russiske militærmakten har de siste åtte årene fått tilført betydelig større ressurser enn på 1990-tallet. Det har vært forventet at dette ville resultere i vesentlig nyere og bedre materiell i de militære styrkene, ... -
Russland som "assosiert NATO-medlem" og Norge - foredrag ved FFI-seminar 10 september 2002
Bakken, Bent Erik; Bukkvoll, Tor; Johansen, Iver; Kjølberg, Anders; Narum, Paul; Wilhelmsen, Julie; Reksten, Jan (2002)On September 10 2002 FFI gave a seminar on the topic "Russia as an associated member of Nato, and Norway." This report is a collection of the contributions to the seminar. The talks given at the seminar shed light on the ... -
Russlands militære intervensjon i Syria - bakgrunn, gjennomføring og konsekvenser
Åtland, Kristian; Bukkvoll, Tor; Enstad, Johannes Due; Tønnessen, Truls H. (2016-03-15)Russlands intervensjon i Syria, som primært ble gjennomført i perioden fra 30. september 2015 til 15. mars 2016, har vært Russlands første større “out of area”-operasjon siden den sovjetiske invasjonen i Afghanistan i ... -
The threat of war and domestic restraints to defence reform- how fear of major military conflict changed and did not change the Ukrainian military 2014-2019
Bukkvoll, Tor; Solovian, Volodymyr (2019-12-19)The annexation of Crimea and the Russia enabled rebellion in Donbas created a need for radical improvements of Ukrainian military capability. This study discusses how different, mostly domestic, reform drivers and reform ...