ANDREI MARTYANOV is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR, graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he worked as Laboratory Director in a commercial aerospace group. He blogs on Reminiscence of the Future and s author of Losing Military Supremacy, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs and Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse.