MOSCOW. April 11 (Interfax-AVN) - The Iraq war will press the Russian leadership into more intensive allied cooperation with states willing to do so, Army General Makhmut Gareyev, president of the Military Sciences Academy, told Interfax- Military News Agency Friday.
"These are first of all the members of the Collective Security Treaty, and other nations for whom the defeat of Iraq became a cold shower of awareness that the U.S. use-of-force policy is dangerous to the world community," he said.
He also said that the modern Russian Armed Forces should be oriented to respond to modern challenges.
"The international security environment in its current state, with its U.S. right to use superpower force, with deteriorated international institutions, first of all the UN Security Council, makes the Russian Armed Forces be oriented to counter specific modern threats and challenges and adopt an efficient national security system with a focus on higher defense potential and with higher spending on both strategic nuclear force and conventional forces," the general said.