ABSTRACT
The portrayal of the structure of air power leads us to the level of military strategy. This chapter forms the bridge between the national security policy, drafted by the Kremlin and the General Staff in Moscow and situated at the level of grand strategy, and the practice of security policy, for instance in Chechnya, at the operational and lower levels, which will be described in Chapter 4. According to the theory of levels of strategy, military doctrine, which was depicted in Chapter 2, is also located at this level of strategy. However, the predominantly political-strategic nature of Russian military doctrine causes this policy document to be more closely related to grand strategy than to military strategy.
