Last week Russia’s government announced that the country’s most senior soldier had been appointed to oversee the war in Ukraine
in Ukraine has a new leader. On January 11th Russia’s government announced that the country’s most senior soldier, Valery Gerasimov, had been appointed to oversee the war instigated by President Vladimir Putin. General Gerasimov replaces, a ruthless general who in October was appointed the first official overall commander.
Valery Gerasimov was born in 1955 to a working-class family in Kazan, the capital city of a region of ethnic Tatars. In the 1970s he trained to be a tank driver and rose steadily through the ranks. He served as a commander during the war in Chechnya in the 2000s. Considered a loyal and safe pair of hands, in 2012 he was appointed chief of general staff, the highest job in the Russian army—three days after his ally Mr Shoigu was made defence minister.
Outside of Russia General Gerasimov is best known for an essay, written in 2013, in which he described a state of modernusing subversion methods spanning “political, economic, informational, humanitarian, and other non-military measures” to complement traditional fighting. In what was later misleadingly coined the “Gerasimov doctrine”, the general was criticising the West’s behaviour in the Middle East rather than advocating a new strategy for Russia.
As chief of staff General Gerasimov has ordered more frequent military exercises than his predecessors did. But as head of the army during the war in Ukraine, he is associated with Russia’s failures. He commands a poorly prepared and under-equipped army, largely from afar. He was once spotted on the front near the eastern city of Izyum, from where he was evacuated in early May following a reported shrapnel wound.
His appointment may have been prompted by a growing rivalry between the traditional military establishment and the Kremlin’s irregular proxies. General Surovikin’s campaign embraced
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