Shoigu Speaks Out.

Sergei Shoigu, Russia's Defense Minister, gave a large interview to MK in which he makes some extremely important admissions and statements. The full interview in Russian is here, while RT gives a gist of it and singles this out :

We need the means we could use against the enemy’s carrier strike groups should our country come under attack. They are far less costly and more efficient. 

This, and many other insights are in this interview and a lot of it is a confirmation of numerous points I make in my latest book. Yeah, let me claim some credit in knowing, and describing, some key points of formation of military and geopolitical balance. Here is what Shoigu states and I was at it for years and years:

При сегодняшнем уровне информатизации и автоматизации высока вероятность ошибки в системе управления вооружением. Именно поэтому в последнее время на первый план вышли вопросы обеспечения информационной безопасности. Когда ты осознаешь свою уязвимость и заинтересован в сохранении баланса и всеобщей равной безопасности, это заставляет тебя включать голову. А когда ты считаешь, как это по инерции продолжают считать в США, что баланс сил сложился в твою пользу, в голову могут прийти самые разные идеи, включая не самые разумные. Именно в этой ситуации я вижу сейчас главную угрозу, и не только для России.  

Translation: With modern level of informatization and automation, the probability of the errors in weapons' control system is fairly high. That is why issues of the informational security came forth recently. When you are vulnerable and is invested in preservation of the balance and all around equal security for everyone, you have to use your head. When, however, you think, as the United States continue to do so out of inertia, that the balance is in their favor, you may have all kinds of ideas, including not very good ones, coming to you mind. It is this situation which carries the main threat and not for Russia only. 

Damn right!