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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''Tom Clancy's [[End War]]'' : A rebuilt, vigorous, and thoroughly modern (by 2020 standards) Russian army is one of the playable sides in ''Tom Clancy's Endwar'', though it is less high-tech focused than the American and European armies - for example, their command vehicle uses bodyguard soldiers rather than unmanned drones for defense.▼
* [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''The Bear and The Dragon'' nicely proves that he ''can'', in fact, tear himself away from the old "[[Cold War|US vs. USSR]]" mindset ... by making [[Red China]], [[The Dragons Teeth|complete with nukes]], the new villains. Resultantly, the USA are now allied with Russia (complete with commentary about the old red stars being overwritten with Russian tricolors on vintage equipment) in a fight against those nasty ChiComms.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Arm A]] II'' heavily subverts this by having a well modernized Russian military as one of the playable factions.▼
* ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company]]'' puts the player in the role of an Army grunt during a war with Russia, though the plot doesn't concern itself much with the actual war. The sequel puts the war with Russia in the forefront, with Russia gaining ground at an alarming rate.
** The ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield 2]]'' mod ''[[Project Reality]]'' includes the Russian Army as a playable faction.
** ''[[Battlefield Play4Free]]'' pits the US against the Russians as well.
** Ditto with ''[[Battlefield 3]]''.
▲* ''Tom Clancy's [[End War]]'' : A rebuilt, vigorous, and thoroughly modern (by 2020 standards) Russian army is one of the playable sides in ''Tom Clancy's Endwar'', though it is less high-tech focused than the American and European armies - for example, their command vehicle uses bodyguard soldiers rather than unmanned drones for defense.
* ''[[Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare 2]]'' features {{spoiler|the Russian Army, after some fancy electronic trickery, attempting to invade and occupy Washington DC}}. The Russians here have been tricked via a [[False-Flag Operation]] into believing that {{spoiler|America is responsible for a terrorist attack against civilians on Russian soil, to which they respond with a "one thousand of you for every one of us" mentality}} and are ultimately turned back.
** ...But not before {{spoiler|blowing big, messy chunks out of Washington and basically wrecking all the government facilities not built into bunkers}}. If it weren't for {{spoiler|Captain Price's improvised, rogue EMP strike}} and poor Ramirez doing bloody well EVERYTHING on the ground, they probably would have levelled the place before the US could put them down.
*** If the Russians didn't, then it was implied the folks at NORAD were ready to use [[Superior Firepower]].
* [[Singularity]] puts the player in the role of Captain Nate Renko, a Marine in a recon team sent to investigate strange radiation readings on an island near Russia called Katorga-12. The Russian government is extremly tight-lipped about the island, and the fear is that some old and neglected nuclear material is about to cause a larger Chernobyl. {{spoiler|It's actually leftover [[Soviet Superscience]] in the area of time travel, and when Renko unwittingly alters the past by saving a man from a burning building in 1955 before he realizes what's going on, the modern Russia no longer exists, replaced by a modern Soviet Union that's conquered the world and isn't in the habit of letting anything rust}}.
▲* [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''The Bear and The Dragon'' nicely proves that he ''can'', in fact, tear himself away from the old "[[Cold War|US vs. USSR]]" mindset ... by making [[Red China]], [[The Dragons Teeth|complete with nukes]], the new villains. Resultantly, the USA are now allied with Russia (complete with commentary about the old red stars being overwritten with Russian tricolors on vintage equipment) in a fight against those nasty ChiComms.
▲* ''[[Arm A]] II'' heavily subverts this by having a well modernized Russian military as one of the playable factions.
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