In 1999, the second Chechnya War broke out because the sharp contradiction between Russia and Chechnya was not alleviated under Yeltsin's Huairou policy. However, this time the Russian commander has replaced a newcomer - he is Grasimov .
General Gerasimov
Gerasimov changed the previous tactical style of the Russian army, and turned to the route of joint combat between aerospace and land. In the end, under the command of this new commander, the Russian army successfully invaded Chechnya's capital Grozny , and Gerasimov's ability was appreciated by President Putin , and later became a senior Russian general with status second only to Shoigu .
Gerasimov's early experience
Although Gerasimov did make his reputation in the Second Chechen War, in fact, before he became the commander of the Chechen War , he had already had rich service experience in the Russian army - in other words, Gerasimov himself is a typical example of "accumulating strength and making progress".
In September 1955, Gerasimov was born in Russia , the capital of Tatarstan Autonomous Republic , , Kazan . Until today, the Tatar Autonomous Republic has a transcendent status in the Russian Federation. Their supreme leader is also called the "President", and is clearly at the same level as the "President" of the Russian Federation.
Grasimov
And the reason why Tatars received such special treatment is closely related to the local people's 's military and martial arts atmosphere . Against this background, it was natural for Gerasimov to enter the army.
In 1977, Gerasimov, who was 22 years old at the time, graduated from Kazan Tank Soldiers Advanced Command School, and became a lieutenant of the tank in the Soviet army, serving in the Northern Cluster and the Far East Military Region.
Although Gerasimov was a grassroots officer in the Soviet army at this time, the so-called "a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier." Gerasimov performed extremely positively in the army, and his training subject scores were among the best in the entire division.
Soviet tank soldiers took a group photo
Therefore, in 1984, Gerasimov got the opportunity to enter a higher-level military academy to further study - the Soviet Armored Forces Military Academy, and here he studied in-depth theories of the major armored corps that had developed to the peak in the Soviet Union .
3 years later, Gerasimov successfully graduated. At this time, he had the qualifications to enter the middle-level command system of and . After graduation, Gerasimov served as Chief of Staff of Tank Regiment in the Baltic Naval Region, and was later promoted to deputy commander and chief of staff of the Motorized Infantry Division.
In 1993, Gerasimov was officially appointed as the commander of the Northwest Cluster Motorized Infantry Division. However, during this period, Gerasimov also experienced a huge historical change - that is, , the collapse of the Soviet Union .
Soviet collapse
Get famous in one battle
Soviet collapse was not the original intention of most citizens, but when oligarchs manipulate politics, each franchised republic has declared independence , including Gerasimov's hometown Tatars.
However, the first Russian President Yeltsin adhered to the policy of politeness and shared some of his autonomy with many franchised republics, which prevented the further disintegration of the Russian Federation. After seeing the reality that the national living standards fell after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gerasimov has since become the most loyal supporter of the central government.
Yeltsin
In 1997, Gerasimov, who had just graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Moscow, obtained the qualification to lead to the Russian army. He was appointed as the deputy commander of a group of troops in the Moscow Military Region.
After the outbreak of the Second Chechen War in 1999, Russian President Putin felt that Chechnya was extremely threatening, so he handed over the burden of combat to Gerasimov , who had rich military qualifications and loyalty to maintain the Russian Federation.
Gerasimov learned from the lessons of the Russian army's blind use of a large number of armored clusters in the First Chechen War, and instead learned some of the experience of the US military in the Gulf War, attaching importance to the joint combat between aerospace forces and the army's .
Russian army in the Second Chechen War
He divided the Russian army into of different sizes and hundreds of elite teams . Each team was responsible for the "clearing operations" of a certain area and defeated the Chechen militants who had been broken into pieces one by one. At the same time, the Russian Aerospace Force also vigorously provided air firepower support, using the precision guided weapon to attack the radar stations, command posts and logistics hubs of the Chechen people, causing the Chechen armed forces to fall into a semi-paralyzed state.
Under the command of Gerasimov, the Russian army reversed the decline in the First Chechen War and attacked the Chechen capital Grozny with a thunderous momentum. In June 2000, Gerasimov announced that the Russian army had fully controlled Grozny , and Kadrov was appointed as the interim leader of Chechnya. According to post-war statistics, the Russian army annihilated 25,000 Chechen militants at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties.
Russian army controls Grozny
becomes the second-person of the Russian army
Given the impressive performance of Gerasimov in the Second Chechnya War, Putin, who was shortly appointed as Russian president, praised him very much. Since 2003, Gerasimov has served as Chief of Staff of the Far East Military Region, and two years later he became the director of the Russian General Administration of Combat Preparation, officially entering the Russian st Army senior officer sequence .
General Gerasimov
Although Gerasimov accepted the orthodox theory of large armored corps in his early years, under his strong insistence, the Russian army gradually got rid of the old-fashioned "steel torrent" style and began to build a modern joint combat system similar to the US military .
Putin is very sure of Gerasimov's talent, so his position in the Russian army is getting higher and higher. He has served as the first deputy chief of staff of the Russian army since 2010 and became the chief of staff of the Russian army in 2012. In 2012, his status was second only to Shoigu, who was the Minister of Defense.
Shoigu
2014's Crimea operation is another highlight moment for Gerasimov. He practiced the latest trend of "cognitive warfare" theory, used the Internet, radio, television and other means to encourage the Crimean people's emotions of leaving Ukraine and entering Russia, and sent a secret force " Gruu and Ukraine" to destroy the Ukrainian military base and paralyzed the Ukrainian military operation. Then Crimea completed the decision to referendum to Russia in a very short time, allowing Russia to successfully acquire the land.
Russian President Putin
It is precisely because Gerasimov's talent and political line that his current status in the Russian army is almost unshakable . As an excellent military strategist, Gerasimov has extraordinary value to Russia.
