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On March 6, the Russian Security Council announced plans to draft a new military doctrine, which commentators expect will be "more aggressive" than the previous one

This decision comes after Henry Obering, head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, announced in Brussels on March 1 that the United States is considering deploying additional mobile radar systems to the Southern Caucasus.

Hence, Russia's decision to draft a new military doctrine comes as a response to these challenges. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on February 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin openly stated that “the U.S. has overstepped its political limits in almost all spheres

Proponents of the American initiative believe that the missile defense base would protect their countries from a limited intermediate to long-range ballistic missile attack from the Middle East and from a limited long-range missile attack from North Korea.

Professor Roman Kuzniar,former President of the Polish Institute for International Affairs, has been a vocal critic of hosting the base.

"Stories about attacks from rogue states should be written off as fairy tales," he said, "because countries are not suicidal. Wars are begun by stronger, hegemonic countries, not by weaker ones." Full Story