| Summary/Abstract |
The latest Russian strategic level field-exercise, VOSTOK-2018, grew notorious with its officially reported overwhelming numbers of participating troops, pieces of equipment moved, units maneuvered, and even the states involved – China was in, too! Nonetheless, this exercise again raises an important point that has not registered in most analyses, i.e. the rarely asked question if Russians are at all capable of, or willing to, apply free-play in the conduct of the field-exercise, instead of their infamous highly-scripted military exercises, designed to impress the VIP visitors, rather than train troops and grow commanders.
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