Through effective military incursions in Crimea, the covert campaign in eastern Ukraine, and the Syrian crisis, Russia’s armed forces earned considerable operational experience. Many senior Russian military officers served in Syria, and unlike the case in Georgia in 2008, when some combat aircrew had to be recalled from test centres, the Russian pilots deployed to Syria were from frontline units. Another goal was to ultimately break free from the Soviet paradigm of mass mobilization and create a force that was not reliant on conscription and mobilization. Overall, the effort to build a contract service cadre of professionals was a success, not only in shifting the military’s balance away from conscripts and toward contract service people, but also in enhancing readiness.
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