Abstract
Since the end of the Cold War, a succession of Russian government leaders has tried to abolish conscription. But ending Russia's conscript military and replacing it with one manned by professionals has not proven to be an easy task. In fact, it has proven impossible. It appears now, and especially after the recent removal of Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov, that conscription will remain for the foreseeable future. Moreover, the attempts that the politicians have made to end conscription have left, in particular, the Russian army marooned between two manning schema: not quite professional and not quite conscript. This current arrangement is both strategically unsound and politically unsustainable.
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