CSTO Focuses on Modernizing Forces and Learning from Modern Warfare
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CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov stated the organization prioritizes equipping forces with advanced weapons, incorporating lessons from modern warfare into training, coordinating member states' positions politically, and conducting joint operations that have disrupted drug trafficking, seized weapons, arrested offenders, and blocked extremist websites, with biological security as a new focus area.
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Why It Matters
The CSTO is a military alliance of former Soviet states led by Russia, focused on collective security and regional stability.
MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) prioritizes equipping its forces with advanced weapons and seeks to incorporate the lessons of modern warfare into their training, CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov wrote in an article for National Defense magazine.
"In the political sphere, we coordinate the CSTO member states’ positions on current issues and advance joint initiatives at international forums. In the military domain, we conduct exercises involving the organization’s collective forces and devote considerable attention to equipping them with advanced weapons and military hardware. In our training, we seek to draw as extensively as possible on the lessons of modern warfare," he said.
According to Masadykov, the CSTO regularly takes measures to counter traditional challenges and threats, including consultations, exercises and joint operations.
"These operations deliver tangible results, including the arrest of offenders, the disruption of drug-trafficking routes, the seizure of weapons and the blocking of extremist websites. Biological security is one of the new areas of our joint work," he concluded.
Open Questions
- Which specific advanced weapons is the CSTO seeking to acquire?
- What specific lessons from modern warfare are being incorporated into training?
- How effective have the CSTO's joint operations been in disrupting drug trafficking and extremist activities?
