Russia's Aerospace forces will focus on NATO
Kremlin's new armed service recognises air and space as single theater of war
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- Rising defence budgets
- First strike
- Background
- VKS role
- Reason for change
- Military reforms
- Fear of NATO
- Prompt Global Strike concerns
- Challenges ahead
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_350.jpg "Russian military jets fly in formation with a tower of the Kremlin seen in the foreground, central Moscow (Reuters/Tatyana Makeyeva)")