National Defense University Associate Professor Elena Pokalova talked about the rise of Russia’s interventionist military strategy in its experience combating terrorism in the North Caucasus and and their current strategy to defeat ISIS.* <br /> <br />“Russia’s War Against Terror: the North Caucasus and Beyond” was a Kennan Institute program. <br /> <br />* The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or DAISH/DAESH in Arabic is a militant group that has called itself the Islamic State.
