MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - A revised...

The head of Russia"s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper earlier on Wednesday that the revised military doctrine would stipulate for preemptive nuclear strikes against potential aggressors and the use of nuclear weapons not only in large-scale conventional wars but also in regional and local conflicts.

"I believe that the military doctrine adopted in 2000 is outdated and contains a number of drawbacks, but I would certainly not change the wording of the provision on the use of nuclear weapons," Alexander Sharavin, the head of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, said in an interview with Echo Moskvy radio.

The current military doctrine outlines the role of the Russian military in ensuring the defense of the country and, if necessary, preparing for and waging war, although it stresses that Russia carries out strictly defensive policies.

According to Sharavin, who in the past led a group on the development

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