Here's something I've been wondering about lately;

Back when I used to read the 'AF Digest' on a regular basis, the mag was always carrying on about how the officers of the Soviet Armed Forces averaged a much higher avg # of advanced college degrees, along w/ more academies etc, in which such degrees could be attained. There was also mention of a higher level of advanced studies on military topics/theory etc. The mag would periodically exhort the US Armed Forces to work towards closing this 'education gap'.

Later, a few years before the demise of the USSR, I viewed a documentary (60 Minutes, maybe?) where they brought in  a number of experts, civilian, military, & retired/ex-military to discuss how a conventional attack by the Warsaw Pact against NATO would proceed using the published material avail from all sources. One thing that made it stand out in my mind was that they also incl soviet defectors, most of them civilian, but all of them w/ the obligatory service required by the USSR. As I recall, almost if not all, were junior officers in the Red Army & had actually participated in various 'wargame' type exercises during their service. They provided some interesting insights into how the Red Army actually trained vs what was officially published.

Now, it seems to me that since the collapse of the USSR there most of been a plethora of ex-military personnel avail to consult with esp from regions/countries/areas that are now hostile to Russia (for example, the first rebel leader of Chechnya was an ex-major general in one of the USSR's air forces). Also, for quite a few years in the '90's Yeltsin made the soviet archives avail to western researchers (for example, documentation was finally found that finally settled the question of what happened to that swedish diplomat that did so much to save the jews in hungary from Eichmann). This should have allowed access to dox that would have given a clearer picture of soviet military theory & intentions. So, it seems to me that there should now be a much clearer view of how the soviets really intended to prosecute such a conflict, as well as how they actually trained for it. There should also have been official  accts & analysis of the performance of their
 armed forces in the Afghan conflict. (as an aside, the stuff I've read has been all over the place in regard to this)

It seems to me that there should have been a whole bunch of folks interested in military affairs that would have jumped at this opportunity but, although I must confess that I haven't exactly been diligently searching, I haven't come across anything of this nature.
Which seems curious in that I suspect that the Russian Army/Armed Forces still follows doctrines rooted in the old USSR's so the subject shouldn't be considered out-dated at all.

Anyone have any referrals?

p.s. Doesn't the current model of the BMP (3?) have a 55mm gun that can fire an AT missle thru it's barrel? Has this supplanted the BMP-2. Any idea how many of the various models are still in service?