Military Thought articles from January 2002

Military Thought archives from January 2002

Talking to the Reader.
January 1, 2002... Dear Reader, By tradition, we want to start the year by sharing with you our plans and intentions for the future. At the same time, we would like to ask for your advice as to what should be done and how to make the main military...

Military doctrines of Asian-Pacific countries: Coordination aspects.
January 1, 2002... Matters of ensuring a country's military security and neutralization of military threats retain their priority to date. They are traditionally regarded within the framework of national military doctrine regulating the military aspects of...

Russia's Armed Forces: Military-strategic validation of composition and strength.
January 1, 2002... Validation of the composition and strength of the Armed Forces is one of the most difficult problems of the theory and practice of their organizational development and has always been within the scope of military science and the...

Russia's national maritime policy.
January 1, 2002... Russia's national interests at seas and oceans, which historically evolved in all main spheres of activity--political, economic, scientific, and military--also extend to inland waters, territorial seas, the exclusive economic zone, and the...

Enhancing the Air Force's combat readiness.
January 1, 2002... The high combat readiness of the Air Force is key to the state's national security. This is due to the fact that the emphasis in warfare has been shifted into the air space and so the main threat to the country's Armed Forces and sensitive...

Military organization funding problems.
January 1, 2002... In military-organization terms, the year 2001 was marked by resolute action in pursuit of the plans to reform the RF military organization, to bring it into conformity with the country's economic potentialities and with the threats to its...

Stages and variants of the Armed Forces' transition to voluntary recruitment.
January 1, 2002... Much importance within the framework of the current military reform attaches to the problem of recruitment of enlisted ranks below sergeant or equivalent and the NCO personnel to the ARMED FORCES. As of today, a combined method of manpower...

Problems of building the Navy.
January 1, 2002... Organizational development of the Navy in such areas as keeping it in stant operational readiness, the training of personnel, provision of reserves and mobilization stockpiles is mainly the responsibility of state structures (RF Government,...

Using underground facilities in urban warfare.
January 1, 2002... Troops used underground service lines and structures for centuries, doing that as far back as the Roman and Byzantine empires. Already at that time there were undermining tunnels made under fortifications. The Russian army led by Ivan IV (The...

Armed conflicts: Forms and methods of combat operations.
January 1, 2002... Radical changes in the military-political and military-strategic situation, the creation and employment of new weaponry and forms of warfare with and without use of arms call for an unconventional approach to studying the problems of war and...

Operational troop mobility.
January 1, 2002... Theory and practice of military art show that increasing operational mobility of troops is closely linked with their maneuverability. Modern military theory defines maneuverability as "a property of units of various services and combat arms of...

Tactics: Evolution of its role and place in military art.
January 1, 2002... The army that proves able to grasp the spirit of modern combat will come a victor. Alexander Svechin From time immemorial military leaders were looking for sure recipes of military victories. Many lives had been lost in military...

Evolution of tactics in Wars and Armed conflicts of the 20th century.
January 1, 2002... Tactics and its core, the theory of combat, covered a long and winding road of evolution. Throughout centuries mankind has been accumulating combat experience through trial and error method based mainly on intuition. Failures cost lives, this...

Tactics of the twenty-first century.
January 1, 2002... Mew weapon types will determine the future of tactics. Today we are witnessing a new tactical model being shaped by a new material basis of armed struggle in which high precision weapons play the main role, in future they will probably become...

Main points of the draft field manual of the ground forces.
January 1, 2002... Chapter One Principles of Combined-arms Combat 1. Combined-arms Combat, Its Nature, Modes of Conduct and Weapons 1. Combat--a form of tactical actions of troops-consists in strikes, fire and maneuver by combined units, (units,...

Air defense and air superiority.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... It is a top priority for a possible adversary at outbreak of an armed conflict to achieve air superiority, which is a prerequisite to effective engagement of opposing forces. The majority of local wars in recent decades were started by an...

Objectives and effectiveness criteria in counterinsurgency warfare.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Until recently it was presumed that to achieve success in counterinsurgency warfare it is enough to have a force superior to an adversary's in the technical equipment and personnel training level. Nonetheless, this form of warfare is a very...

The Navy protects Russia's national interests.
January 1, 2002... For many centuries the World Ocean has been, and remains, an arena of fierce rivalry and a zone where the interests of states, regional organizations, transnational companies, corporations and private persons meet, and clash. The spheres of...

Mikhail Ostrogradskiy and mathematical training for naval officers.(scientist and teacher )
January 1, 2002... The new, twenty-first century is a century of informatization of all spheres of human life. This is especially true of the military sphere. Mathematics and logic are the core of high information technologies. Today mathematics is the key link...

Military thought holds readers' conference.
January 1, 2002... There was a readers' conference on the theme "Military Art of the Land Forces at the Juncture of Millennia and the Military Thought Journal" held at the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on November 21, 2001....