New Russian military command structure
Russia’s General Staff is planning to merge existing military districts into four strategic commands but leave strategic nuclear forces under central control, Russia’s top military commander said on Tuesday.
- We will propose merging our six military districts into four strategic commands whose commanders will exercise control over all forces and assets deployed in their territory, including the Navy, Air Force and air defenses, chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces General Nikolai Makarov said to RIA Novosti.
According to the web site Severnyflot.ru the changes will be introduced before December 1st 2010. The Moscow and Leningrad military districts will be merges into a Western strategic command with headquarters in St. Petersburg. Both the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet will go into this structure.
The East command will comprise units of the Far Eastern military district, part of the Siberian military district and the Pacific Fleet. The Urals and part of the Siberian district will become the Center command, while the South command will combine units of the North Caucasus military district, the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla.
