Military Thought articles from April 2008

Military Thought archives from April 2008

The 90th anniversary of the Voennaia mysl' journal.(Company overview)
April 1, 2008... On June 1, 2008, we are celebrating the 90th anniversary of the day when the first issue of the Voennaia mysl' (Military Thought) journal was published. Voennaia mysl' is a military theoretical journal of the Russian Federation Ministry of...

The role, place, and mission of the RF Internal Troops in ensuring state security.(Russian Federation)(Agency overview)
April 1, 2008... The history of the organizational development, service and combat activity of the Russian Interior Ministry Internal Troops shows that at all stages of their development they have occupied an important place in the general system of state...

On a new approach to analysis of modern confrontation andother problems.
April 1, 2008... At time, working out a renovated military doctrine of the Russian Federation has become a rather pressing task. In the course of debates within the framework of a military scientific conference at the Academy of Military Sciences(1) there has...

State information policy in defense area: initial definition.
April 1, 2008... Today there is no doubt that mankind has entered the information civilization. In effect, the mass computerization and advanced information technologies have led to some impressive changes practically in every sphere of life. Defense is no...

Employment of combined-arms formations in the elimination of natural and man-made disasters.
April 1, 2008... Natural and man-made disasters have become almost commonplace today. Between 350 and 400 natural disasters a year happen in Russia, which has a great diversity of geological, climatic and terrain conditions.(1) Within a space of just five...

Assessment of the army air defense forces' command and control efficiency at the stages of advancement and combat engagement.
April 1, 2008... Approaches to the assessment of command and control (C&C) system influence on the outcome of the combat activity of army air defense forces when advancing and committing into battlefield engagement have not been elaborated adequately by the...

Tendencies in the development of combined-arms combat tactics.
April 1, 2008... Development of military art and its components was repeatedly discussed by Voennaia mysl' (Military Thought). Its articles on this theme do not pass unnoticed by the military readership. More than that, they engender an enhanced interest. And...

A verbal model of the army command and control infosphere: which resources are available.
April 1, 2008... Nowadays, one of the most essential priority-driven doctrinal tasks in the development of the military organization of the state is to create a uniform system of national defense administration and ensure its efficient functioning, as well as...

On the improvement of command and control system.
April 1, 2008... Army control and command system improvement is one of the key problems military science is facing nowadays and will be facing in the immediate future. Besides, it should be mentioned that the task of operative management of day-to-day...

Essence and mechanism of laws of warfare as expressed mathematically.
April 1, 2008... Knowing the laws of warfare that can quantitatively reflect its nature is one of the fundamental problems in military science. The problem, on the one hand, is that it is necessary to describe, explain and predict the course of warfare by...

Hydrometeorological support of air-to-surface precision weapons and their tactical employment.
April 1, 2008... Military-political high-level officials of leading world powers believe that warfare pattern will undergo considerable changes in the 21st century, with operations in aerospace playing key role. In this connection, NATO air strikes, as part of...

On the prospective digital communication network of the RF Armed Forces.(Russian Federation)
April 1, 2008... The guide line of the development of the Russian Federation Armed Forces communication network as material and technical basis of their command and control system is a stage-by-stage transition to a new improved configuration of organization...

Development of modern satellite communications system.
April 1, 2008... Satellite communication supplying information service package to every user irrespective of its position, movement, weather and climatic conditions, etc. is one of important and vigorously developing IT domains. In fact, the armed forces...

Development of a field communication system on the bbasis of new telecommunication technologies.
April 1, 2008... One of the priority areas of the state defense capability is development and improvement of military control system. And the most important feature of this development is general automation of military command strength. Today, the progress...

Providing troops with armament and military equipment: planning issues.
April 1, 2008... Recently, important decisions have been made in the field of military and military-technical policy of the Russian Federation directed at support of the Armed Forces combat readiness and improvement of the armament and technique. ...

Electronic warfare and its present-day problems.
April 1, 2008... The experience of World War II and the subsequent development of the theory and practice of the armed struggle show that with the course of time, the role and influence of electronic warfare (EW) on the progress and outcome of combat operations...

How to prepare forces for combat operations in a high-technology armed conflict.
April 1, 2008... In November 2006, Riga, Latvia, hosted a NATO meeting at the level of heads of state and government. One of its main results was the Comprehensive Political Guidance, a document reiterating that collective defense was, as before, the main aim...

Remote combat engagement.
April 1, 2008... Long-distance confrontation came into being, as an element of warfare, practically at the same time as war did. In ancient times, as soon as projectile weapons--arrows and bow, crossbow, sling, javelin, and machines (catapults, ballistae)--were...

Specificity of proof in military science.
April 1, 2008... Each science is known to have more or less strongly marked specificity of its proof, i.e., of establishing the validity of knowledge implicated in its laws, categories, principles, etc. For instance, the decisive role of experiment presents...

Warfare science and military forecasting in the conditions of intellectual informational confrontation.
April 1, 2008... During all the 90 years, from the date of its foundation, the Voennaia mysl' (Military Thought) journal has been successfully proving its name by paying enormous attention to revealing and solving the most urgent problems the warfare science is...

Military Futurology.
April 1, 2008... Futurology as "a branch of science aiming to forecast trends in the development of human society and specific spheres of life,"(1) just as cybernetics, was totally rejected during the Soviet days for ideological reasons. Prominent Soviet...

Interaction in the air defense system: theory and experience.
April 1, 2008... The problem of organizing and supporting the interaction of fighter aviation and anti-aircraft defenses arose back in the course of World War I. Yet to date, despite such lengthy period, it has not only missed solution, but is acquiring even...

Military communication Institute: history and today.(Organization overview)
April 1, 2008... PRESENT progress in telecommunications is possible due to creative work of several generations of scientists and engineers from various research institutes, design bureaus and industries. The RF MoD Order of the Red Star 16th Central Scientific...