posted on Oct, 9 2004 @ 01:17 AM
Here's a good little invasion plan for Russia. Only take the pieces that you want and leave the rest to rot. The oil rich caspian basin for example.
Encorage, finance and train seperatist rebels like the Muhadjadeen to infiltrate and destabilize regions in the Caucaucus. Encourage seperatist
movements, border wars and cross-border insurgancies. Sometimes a slow and steady thrust from a knife can pierce better than a powerful thrust.
Sponsor, train and arm terrorists to attack the Russian state forcing them to over-react and misdirect their military and vital resources looking for
spooks. Try to get the Russian military to launch offensives in areas where the loyalty to the Federation is questionable, this helps to destablize
border regions and primes this region for increased insurgent activity. Always have huge cashes of arms in the reach of dissenting minorities.
Encoruage ethnic violence and foster both sides of the conflict, this kind of destabilization aids in tying down Federal forces.
Dismembering the Russian Federation, in a similar fasion as was done to the Yugoslav Federation would be slow, but lethal. Taking the oil rich
provinces first would serve to weaken the Federal Forces both in terms of the expense of an agrivated low-intensity conflict and the random
destruction of pipelines and oil fields.
Establish secret Special Forces training camps all around the Southern Caucausus and Caspian region. Pump arms and cash into CIS states to silence
them on your covert operations in the area and use these States as forward bases for Psychological Operations. PsyOps would include, but not limit
itself to, dominating all information in areas of operations, undermining local currencies, controling drug and arms trafficing, infiltrate Banks, Oil
Companies, local Police and Provencial Legal and Governmental offices. The key to controling a province is in establishing a prior command and control
structure within the area before seperatist operations can take place. Once cecession is complete, you control all facets of the newly independent
state and they will serve as a puppet.
Once this is complete, you have a new base of operations to begin infiltrating all surrounding states. This isn't a Blitzkreig operation, these
operations may take several years but you use very little of your own forces, a few thousand perhaps. Most of the combatants are foreign nationals and
mercenaries. After 15 - 20 years you've disintigrated the Russian Federation down to a Rump and a couple intense bombing campaigns later... you have
a smoldering Rump.
This style of warfare works, this is pretty much how it was done in the Former Yugoslavia.