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This paper offers two main conclusions. First, the conventional-nuclear strategic weapon set is intended to enable Russia to exploit nuclear deterrence while employing conventional precision strike for crisis management, escalation control, and war fighting in regional crisis scenarios. The evolving concepts and doctrine for employment of the strategic weapon set will cause conventional precision weapons to influence the timing of Russian leadership decisions on whether and when to cross the nuclear threshold. Second, Russia's conventional precision-strike capabilities will augment but not replace nuclear weapons in deterrence, intra-war deterrence, and warfighting roles.

RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--MILITARY POLICY --- RUSSIA (FEDERATON)--STRATEGIC ASPECTS --- PRECISION GUIDED MUNITIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION)