The Role of Combat Aircrafts of the Air and Space Force of the Russian Federation During the First Three Weeks of Military Intervention in Syria in 2015

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https://doi.org/10.34739/dsd.2019.01.04

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Russia, intervention, air force, Syria

Abstract

The Russian intervention in Syria has been the first act of a considerable scale since 1991 of a direct involvement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in a military conflict on a territory not included in the former Soviet Union. At the same time, it became the first operation in the history of the Russian Federation (and formerly the USSR) in which a leading role – both in the composition of the military contingent addressed there, as well as in relation to the results of actions – played the air force. This publication focuses on the genesis and the different phases of the engagement of combat aircraft of the mentioned type of armed forces in the initial stage of Russian intervention, as well as an attempt to assess the reasons for the exceptional effectiveness of the operation on the course of the entire war.

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Author Biography

  • Leszek Pawlikowicz, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Zakład Historii Prawa i Doktryn Polityczno-Prawnych

    Associate professor at the Department of the History of Law and Political and Legal Doctrines of the University of Rzeszow. The author and co-author of five monographs [in Polish]: Secret Cold War Front. Fugitives from Polish Special Services 1956–1964, Warsaw 2004; Legal Status of Fugitives from Polish Special Services 1956–1964. Norms of Criminal Law, International Public Law and Internal Asylum Regulations of Host Countries, Rzeszów 2008; Central Apparatus of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB as an Instrument for the Implementation of the Kremlin’s Global Strategy 1954-1991, Warsaw 2013 [with Robert Zapart]; Intelligence Services as a Tool for Implementing State Policy in the 20th Century. Selected Issues, Rzeszów 2014 [with Jan Larecki and Paweł Piotrowski]; Central Apparatus of the Civilian Intelligence Services of the Warsaw Pact as Specialized State Structures 1944-1991, Rzeszów 2015 [with Jan Bury, Krzysztof Surowiec and Robert Zapart]; Power Resorts in the 'August Coup' 1991: Political and Military Analysis, Rzeszów 2017.

Okładka czasopisma De Securitate et Defensione. O Bezpieczeństwie i Obronności 2019 (tom 5, nr 1)

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28.01.2020 — Updated on 08.04.2023

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019): De Securitate et Defensione. O Bezpieczeństwie i Obronności

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How to Cite

Pawlikowicz, L. (2023). The Role of Combat Aircrafts of the Air and Space Force of the Russian Federation During the First Three Weeks of Military Intervention in Syria in 2015. De Securitate Et Defensione. Security and Defense Journal, 5(1), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.34739/dsd.2019.01.04 (Original work published 2020)