Military Thought articles from April 2005

Military Thought archives from April 2005

Experience of the Great Patriotic War and current national defense problems.
April 1, 2005... Dear war veterans, Dear comrades, The 60th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War and in World War II as a whole is drawing near. Our country in cooperation with the states of the anti-Hitler coalition...

Lessons of the Great Patriotic War, local wars and prospects of developing modern military science and military art.
April 1, 2005... Victory: Importance and Results As time goes by, the tremendous universal and historic importance of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is growing more obvious. Our nation appreciates at its true value the great...

The defense industry and its contribution to victory.
April 1, 2005... The Great Victory in that bloody war could not have come had the army and navy not had powerful and effective weaponry, and in sufficient amounts. It was a practical test of the effectiveness of State decisions in the running the country's...

Lessons and conclusions from rear services support operations in the Great Patriotic War and an outlook for the future.
April 1, 2005... While paying tribute to the unparalleled heroism, courage, and valor of the soldiers who fought in combat, battle line formations and units, we must not forget the contribution by those of our compatriots who, in the trying war years, performed...

War experience and the outlook for the development and employment of the navy in future wars and armed conflicts.
April 1, 2005... The Navy is a service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ensuring the protection and defense of its national interests not only in wartime but also in peacetime. Russia's need for a navy, capable of effectively fulfilling its tasks...

The evolution of China's military policy and military doctrine.
April 1, 2005... As is known, the role of any State on the international arena is predetermined by its economic and military power, the level of its scientific and technological development, its resources, its geopolitical and geostrategic position, the size...

Characteristics of combat actions (operations) in future wars.
April 1, 2005... The operational art and tactics as well as the military art as a whole are now in the process of dynamic development. There are many contributory factors here, above all the rapid ongoing modernization of the tools and instruments of warfare....

Developments in coastal defense and the amphibious anti-landing operations.
April 1, 2005... Analysis of the centuries old history of wars and the military art shows convincingly that coastal defense is a highly topical military security problem for any state that has an outlet to the sea. This problem has always been multidimensional...

On network-centric warfare.
April 1, 2005... Analysis of a number of papers written by foreign and Russian military analysts and practitioners shows that operational art is developing a fundamentally new concept of warfare on the operational and strategic scale that is known as...

Some aspects of information analysis in counterterrorist operations.
April 1, 2005... When analyzing military-political processes it is necessary to gain an insight of social phenomena with the aid of scientific methods and principles. Whatever the problems and whatever means and methods are used to solve them, it is important...

Pressing problems of C & C automation.(command and control )
April 1, 2005... The last decade inaugurated a new period where opposing forces increasingly rely on highly effective automated systems and precision weapons capable of performing strategic and battlefield missions within the shortest possible time. This...

Using GIS in support of Missile Forces and Artillery.(geographic information systems)
April 1, 2005... With the advent of electronic maps of terrain (EMT) there emerged first geographic information systems (GIS) to process and analyze cartographic information stored in electronic form. Unfortunately, the RF Armed Forces are falling considerably...

Military-professional self-development of officers.
April 1, 2005... K.D. Ushinskiy, the great Russian educator and thinker, in this article "Sunday Schools," back in 1861, wrote: "It is essential to not only transfer to a student particular knowledge but also to develop in him a desire and an ability to acquire...

Naval science must be given official status.
April 1, 2005... Revival of naval science as an independent area of knowledge after its administrative removal from the field of scientific studies continues to loom large among the many problems that have been disturbing the naval scientific public for a...

Army aviation as part of air defenses of combined-arms large strategic formations.
April 1, 2005... Attack helicopters carrying antitank guided missiles are seen in the armed forces of all advanced world countries as a highly efficient weapon in the fight against armored targets. Russia's AN-64, for one, can kill as many as six tanks during...

More comments on forms of employment of naval forces.
April 1, 2005... The directive on Organizational-Mobilization Muster of the Navy (2004) said it was necessary to draw up a "theory of forms of employment of naval forces," (1) something that characterizes the current direction of effort in naval theory and...

Principles of military art.
April 1, 2005... Principles of military art are not unlike sheet music for musicians using which they can play outstanding compositions brilliantly or perfunctorily. The centuries-old history of military art has many examples where battles and campaigns were...

Branch of service academy: problems of training military personnel.
April 1, 2005... Ever growing attention is being paid over recent years to questions of country's security. At the same time, decisions made at the government level are not always of systemic nature or do not cover all areas of protecting the country's...

Theoretical principles of military engineering.
April 1, 2005... The main motive for my contribution was the virtual absence of the formal status and general theory (principles) of military engineering. The main and obvious proof of this is that the latest military encyclopedias do not have such...

Military-economic victory and its lessons (on the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War).
April 1, 2005... More than half a century after its glorious triumph in the Great Patriotic War, our Fatherland once again finds itself in a very difficult position. Just as during the war, Russia faces a titanic challenge: to be or not to be. Once again our...

Using airborne assaults and special operations (1939-1945 World War II experience).
April 1, 2005... Analysis of local wars and armed conflicts at the turn of the 21st century in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq gives grounds to believe that airborne assaults and special operations can be of decisive influence in attaining the goals of...

The Soviet Navy in the Great Patriotic War (60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War).
April 1, 2005... On May 9 of this year, our country celebrates the glorious and significant jubilee, the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In our history, the Great Patriotic War stands apart. But the main result of this war is immutable:...

Progress in front aviation communications during the Great Patriotic War (60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War).
April 1, 2005... It is hard to overestimate the importance of command and control and its influence on combat results and efficiency. But its quality was always dependent on the state of communications, particularly so in the air force, one of the most dynamic...

Suvorov's canons of army and state governance.(Alexander Vassilievich Suvorov )
April 1, 2005... Alexander Vassilievich Suvorov is known as an invincible military leader and a model for Russian soldiers for all times. Many books, both in this country and abroad, (1) were written about Suvorov's life and military career. But few modern...

Some aspects of operational employment of Russian naval forces in World War I.
April 1, 2005... Events that occurred in World War I continue to draw the attention of naval specialists to this day, even though almost a century separates us now from that major armed conflict of the first quarter of the 20th century. World War I was a...

News for professionals.
April 1, 2005... Now that the Russian Armed Forces come over to enlistment-based manpower acquisition, the long-overdue problem of barracks-room harassment in the army and navy is as pressing as never before. In all world countries it is normally the...

Converting RF Armed Forces communications system to digital communication methods.(Russian Federation)
April 1, 2005... Revolutionary advances in microelectronics and computer technology that marked the last few decades of the 20th century gave a powerful boost to information and telecommunications technologies. Fundamentally new devices for the handling,...

Military-scientific conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 10th anniversary of the Academy of Military Sciences.(Russia)
April 1, 2005... A military-scientific conference on the theme "Lessons of and Conclusions from the Great Patriotic War and Prospects for the Development of Modern Military Science and Military Art" took place on March 15, 2005. The conference was prepared by...