Alexander Dugin — Principles and strategy of coming war

This is a strategic analysis by Alexander Dugin, who is associated with Putin in the West, but he and Putin are actually at odds, Dugin being critical of Putin's management of Russia as insufficiently conservative in the Russian sense of the term. Dugin was removed from  his position as Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of Moscow State University in 2014 for his outspoken views toward Ukraine that many people found offensive. Dugin is not afraid to speak his mind very frankly. He is not the hothead that John McCain is though. He thinks things through.

This analysis is interesting for several reasons. First, Dugin is one of the top Russian thinkers of the day and while one many disagree with his point of view, one has to appreciate his command of the material. Secondly, Dugin lays out the internal dynamic Russia and the external challenges Russia faces from the liberal West, its historical enemy Turkey since the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and its Shiite allies who are opposed by both the Sunnis and Israel, who are Western allies. Thirdly, he describes how Russia alone stands in the ways of US global hegemony as a nuclear superpower and the only existential threat that the US faces while refusing to conform to US wishes. He views this position as the trajectory toward war.

The Fourth Revolutionary War
Principles and strategy of coming war
Alexander Dugin