TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 146

Introduction A. THE CONTEXT FOR RUSSIA'S RESURGENCE Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr. DOCUMENT NO. 1: A Shift in the International Security Environment: Potential Implications for Defense--Issues for Congress, CRS Report No. R43838, Ronald O'Rourke, June 8, 2016 DOCUMENT NO. 2: Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests, CRS Report No. RL33407, Jim Nichol, March 31, 2014 B. RUSSIAN REGIONAL RESURGENCE Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr. DOCUMENT NO. 3: Ukraine: Current Issues and U.S. Policy, CRS Report No. RL33460, Vincent L. Morelli, January 3, 2017 DOCUMENT NO. 4: Framework for Future Alliance Operations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation/Supreme Allied Commander Europe, August 2015 DOCUMENT NO. 5: Understanding Putin through a Middle Eastern Looking Glass, "Strategic Perspectives 19," John W. Parker, Center for Strategic Research/Institute for National Strategic Studies/National Defense University, National Defense University Press, July 2015 C. THE RISE IN RUSSIAN MILITARY CAPABILITIES Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr. DOCUMENT NO. 6: The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation (translated), Vladimir Putin, December 25, 2014 DOCUMENT NO. 7: Back to the Future? Russia's Hybrid Warfare, Revolutions in Military Affairs, and Cold War Comparisons, Diego A. Ruiz Palmer, NATO Defense College, Rome, Research Paper No. 120, October 2015 DOCUMENT NO. 8: Maskirovka 2.0: Hybrid Threat, Hybrid Response, James Q. Roberts, Joint Special Operations University Press, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, JSOU Press Occasional Paper, December 2015