The Russian Military: Declining or Better?

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A reflective article on the invasion of Czechoslovakia, which provides some interesting comparisons with the Ukraine more recently:

But looking back at Operation Danube there are some quite striking parallels between the processes that led Brezhnev to approve intervention in August 1968, and more recent acts of Russian policy, not least with reference to Ukraine.
(Ends with) Ultimately, Operation Danube served only to delay by two decades the disintegration of a discredited system that could only govern at the point of a bayonet.

Link:https://defenceindepth.co/2018/08/20...ifty-years-on/