Boris Yeltsin and the First Chechen War

• Main Authors: Hart, Steven, Hess, Derek
• Other Authors: NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Government and Political Science; Unconventional Warfare; *POLITICAL SCIENCE; *URBAN WARFARE; MILITARY OPERATIONS; USSR; MILITARY STRATEGY; *CHECHEN WAR; CHECHNYA; BORIS YELTSIN; Chechen; Russian North
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA441554; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA441554

In the fall of 1994 Russia moved inexorably toward armed intervention in Chechnya, a member of the newly formed Russian North Caucasus Federated States. In reviewing Russian national interests for its subsequent insertion of an armed force into Chechnya, it is evident that President Boris Yeltsin fa...