Military Thought articles from January 2001

Military Thought archives from January 2001

Success after Retirement. Practical Guide for Retired Officers [1].(Brief Article)(Review)
January 1, 2001... The current reforms of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation created an urgent problem of employment for former military. Hundreds of thousands of former officers and warrant officers retired from the army and navy are facing the problem...

Shalagin's Book To Become Masters of the Sea.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... (To Mark the 300th Anniversary of the Baltic Fleet) Boris Shalagin has undertaken the noble mission of writing a biography of Admiral Nikolai Essen whose name is closely associated with the Baltic Fleet that will mark its 300th anniversary...

Evolution of U.S. Army Operations Doctrine.
January 1, 2001... Right until the end of the War in Vietnam, in the mid-1970s, the U.S. Army had in effect no service concept (doctrine) defining the basic principles of force development, preparation and employment of the Army. At first glance, that might...

Morale Training in Foreign Armies.
January 1, 2001... Analysis of foreign military literature on problems of ensuring national security leads to the conclusion that the military-political leadership of the world's major countries sees high morale of the armed forces as one of its priorities. This...

The Bundeswehr's Political-Information Activity.
January 1, 2001... It is no secret that in order to attain the ultimate security goal--peace, freedom, and independence of a democratic state--strong and effective armed forces are necessary. At the same time, the army, being an inalienable instrument of state...

"Information Warfare".
January 1, 2001... Recently, the word "war" has been increasingly used -- not only in journalism but also in special literature -- with some epithet or other. It began with the "Cold War," but today there is also "information war," "economic war," and...

Traditional Concept of "War" Is Obsolete.
January 1, 2001... Modern warfare is a basically new phenomenon that requires a revision of the established concepts, bringing them in tune with the time. What makes it new is not even the methods and means of warfare but the sum total of directions and...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Military Specialist Training.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... One of the key tasks facing higher military school is to raise the standards of officer training so as to enhance their readiness for service in the Armed Forces. Practice shows that numerous shortcomings have built up in the military education...

The Cost of Human Life and Socioeconomic Compensation.
January 1, 2001... The very idea of the cost of human life is often seen as blasphemous. Nevertheless, thousands of people choose a line of activity which involves higher-than-average risk, exposing themselves to danger for a specified remuneration and so...

Ergonomic Support to Designing Advanced Ships.
January 1, 2001... The long economic crisis in Russia has caused steep cuts in funds for the provision of new equipment and in particular the building of advanced ships for the RF military. Analysis of problems in the realm of building naval ships suggests that...

Social Problems of Military Training.
January 1, 2001... The ongoing reforms in the Armed Forces and higher military school are aimed at solving a major problem facing the state: to create a powerful modern army capable of effectively accomplishing its tasks in the interests of national security. One...

Computerization of Military Education: Problems and Solutions.
January 1, 2001... The efficiency of training highly skilled military personnel in modern conditions is largely determined by the level of computerization of different spheres of military education activities. Analysis of stories in the press shows that...

Problems of Shipboard Control System Development.
January 1, 2001... The concept of organizational development of Russia's Navy calls for maintaining in the short term the Navy's battle-ready nucleus by modernizing its ships while upgrading the qualitative parameters of combat assets. Upgrading applies...

Is the State Arms Program Achievable?
January 1, 2001... The state arms program (SAP) is described by an aggregate of parameters expressing its developers' plan aimed at upgrading arms and military equipment of the RF Armed Forces. Practical experience shows that parameters achieved on completion of...

Talking to the Reader.
January 1, 2001... Dear reader, the editors are happy to welcome you in this New Year and to invite you to a discussion of the most pressing and vital problems of security, military organizational development, as well as military theory and practice. We are...

On the Problem of Nuclear Security in the Modern World.
January 1, 2001... In the latter half of the 1990s, India and Pakistan staged a series of tests of nuclear weapons and a number of successful launchings of ballistic missiles. These events are likely to be just the visible side of some deep-going and so far...

Conflict Prevention and Settlement with Peacekeeping Forces.
January 1, 2001... On the threshold of the 21St century, with the Cold War-era bipolar system no longer in existence, numerous ethnic, national, religious and territorial armed conflicts, known as "local" conflicts, have become the main threat to stability and...

Issues in Preparing the National Transportation System for Defense.
January 1, 2001... As is common knowledge, transport is of considerable importance for the Armed Forces' strategic mobility. It enjoys a particularly grown role in a situation where the Armed Forces face reductions because large-scale transport movements will be...

Characteristics of Modern Combined-Arms Operations.
January 1, 2001... The creation and adoption on a mass scale of modern weapons and technologies is having an appreciable effect on the development of operational art in general and theory of combined-arms operations in particular. It is therefore important, in...

Combat Team Tactics.
January 1, 2001... One of the tactical novelties resulting from combat experience of the two Chechen military campaigns is the employment in combat of so-called battle teams--dvoykas (teams of two), troykas (teams of three) and larger teams comprised of...