Military Thought articles from April 2004

Military Thought archives from April 2004

Conceptual approaches to a nationwide system of measures to settle internal armed conflicts.
April 1, 2004... The history of relations between Russia and its constituent Chechen Republic (CR) is rife in conflicts, including open armed confrontation. Their settlement was and still is a complicated national task with much bearing on internal political...

Evolution of the Navy's operational employment.
April 1, 2004... Operational skill is a key component of the art of naval warfare. Its major tasks include analysis and summarization of experience in the operational use of naval forces, forecasting the character of naval warfare, and on this basis,...

Military shipbuilding today: problems and solutions.
April 1, 2004... Russia felt the need for a strong and efficient navy to defend its national interests as soon as its borders reached the sea and oceanic expanses. Currently the Navy's importance is determined by the fact that Russia, with its more than 40,000...

The State Armaments Program: development methodology.
April 1, 2004... Today the scientific and administrative work on drawing up the State Armaments Program for the 2006-2015 (SAP-2015) has entered a critical phase: the preparation of organizational, practical, and methodological solutions called upon to finalize...

Incentives for government defense contractors.
April 1, 2004... This journal has devoted much attention to such an important problem as the development of arms and military equipment (AME). In the past, under state ownership of the means of production, the administrative-command system ensured the priority...

Research and development rights.(military research)
April 1, 2004... Before 1992, the state was the nationwide owner of all rights to objects of industrial property, save for a small number of patent-protected inventions. Accepted in that year, a new patent law changed the situation radically, granting the...

Intellectualizing the Navy's automatic communications control system.
April 1, 2004... Efficiency in using the Navy's existing communications system depends on how prompt and high-quality the control of its component infrastructure elements is (meaning by the latter the base control, communications centers of C & C facilities,...

Automation of general planning of fire for effect.(military planning)
April 1, 2004... Analysis of warfare trends and research results provide evidence that general planning of fire for effect (FfE) is central to activities of the staffs of combined-arms large strategic formations in preparing for and conducting combat...

Computer war games: how to estimate decisions made by C & C trainees.(command and control)
April 1, 2004... Now that the Russian military is cash-strapped and can afford only a limited number of field training exercises, computer war games (CWG) are of special importance for operational training of C & C agencies and elements because they make it...

Naval force development: evolution of theory and practice.
April 1, 2004... The changes in the politico-military situation in the world and in Russia's geostrategic and socioeconomic position that occurred at the end of the past century and at the beginning of this century necessitate the development of new approaches...

Probabilistic models in operation planning.
April 1, 2004... Military-theoretical publications (1) show that the state's military problems on the borderline of the 20th and the 21st century increasingly require in-depth evaluation and appraisal of both quantitative and qualitative aspects characterizing...

Peculiarities of current combat training in the Navy.
April 1, 2004... Currently the Navy's combat readiness should be at a level that would exclude the possibility of a sudden enemy attack and secure performance of designated missions in each theater in the operational zone of responsibility. The necessity of...

Organization of educational work in the Navy: problems and solutions.
April 1, 2004... A sharp increase in the intensity of sea and ocean voyages and the intensive combat training schedule of the units and ships of the Navy result in greater physical and mental stress in the work of all categories of personnel and make it...

Upgrading commander's control on board ships and in units of the Navy.
April 1, 2004... Changes that have taken place over recent 10 to 12 years in the structure and organization of the Russian Federation Armed Forces during the course of their reforming, as well as in social relations, call for reviewing and refining in an...

Russia's social safety system for the military.
April 1, 2004... The principal regulatory document setting out the basics of government policy in the field of protecting security of our country is the Concept of National Security of the Russian Federation. (1) This is a political document reflecting a set of...

Employment of force groupings in strategic sectors.(military science )
April 1, 2004... The experience of World War II, operations training of the USSR Armed Forces, local wars and armed conflicts in recent decades confirms the need for employing force groupings of different armed services to achieve the ultimate results of...

Military security "thresholds".
April 1, 2004... A large number of publications in the periodical press concerning Russia's national security highlight the need for a clear-cut definition of security criteria, especially their threshold and quantitative values. One possible approach to this...

Certain "initiatives" in investigations of military-theoretical problems.
April 1, 2004... Military Thought editors are engaged in a very interesting and, to a certain extent, risky experiment expressed in that they opened a new discussion platform, VIEWPOINT, and published in No. 10 for 2003 (the Russian version of the journal) the...

Once again apropos of the concepts of "naval battle" and "tactical operation".
April 1, 2004... The article by Capt. 1st Rank V.I. Polenin has raised a topical and long overdue issue. (1) Its topicality is due to the fact that certain concepts in the domestic naval art theory have to be revised in line with the military-political views on...

Military science, its structure and content at the present stage in the development of military thought.
April 1, 2004... As is common knowledge, military science was through a difficult evolution. (1) At each historical stage, starting from the epoch of edged weapons and to the nuclear era, the warfare experience of nations and governments led to the accumulation...

What philosophy does the military leader need after all?
April 1, 2004... G.P. Belokonev's article "Philosophy and Military Science" (1) is devoted to a topical problem. The author underscores the importance of scientific methodology, is indignant at efforts to foist on everyone Karl Popper's notorious "trial and...

The whys and wherefores of the ecological service.(Russian armed forces)
April 1, 2004... An organized employment of the Armed Forces (AF) to achieve definite political and military goals, warfare is always connected with a broad spectrum of legal, economic, social as well as ecological aspects. This being so, it seems important to...

Evolution of the military factor and its impact on international political relations in East Asia.
April 1, 2004... The Evolution of the Military Factor Today: General Causes and Conditions The military factor, which within the scope of this article is understood as states' military activity, remains one of the most substantial circumstances and at the...

Second front: coalition strategy (60 years of the second front opening in 1944).
April 1, 2004... The English Channel was a seething cauldron at the crack of dawn on 6 June 1944 as 6,000 fighting ships and transport vessels started out from ports in Britain for the French shores, the air was filled with the roar of 11,000 aircraft as...

Movement to contact and commitment to combat of reserve fronts (Great Patriotic War experience and modern times).
April 1, 2004... The Supreme High Command Headquarters (SHC Hq) were constantly upgrading methods of strategic operations during the years of the Great Patriotic War. The most important course of action in this field was the timely creation of reserves and...

The military command and control system today and ways of improving it in light of new defense tasks and changes in the character of future wars.
April 1, 2004... On January 24, 2004, the RF Defense Ministry hosted a military-scientific conference organized by the Academy of Military Sciences, titled The Military Command and Control System Today and Ways of Improving It in Light of New Defense Tasks and...