Military Thought articles from January 2003

Military Thought archives from January 2003

To our readers.
January 1, 2003... Oleg Nikolaevich KALINOVSKIY, born on March 7, 1954, in the town of Tavda, Sverdlovsk Region; the Sumy Higher Artillery Command School (1975), with top honors; the M.I. Kalinin Artillery Academy (1989), with top honors; platoon, battery,...

International terrorism and its military-political organizations.
January 1, 2003... International terrorism has for many years now been a cause of serious concern to the world community. In 1999, Russia was subjected to a series of terrorist bomb attacks, in Moscow and other cities. The world community reacted rather strangely...

Limitation of naval arms and naval activity.
January 1, 2003... The end of the Cold War, the end of the East-West confrontation, and other positive processes in international relations call for a new approach to problems of the limitation of naval arms and naval activity by the maritime powers (above all...

Operational-strategic echelon command and control agencies: reform issues.
January 1, 2003... Historical experience shows that effective operation of its C&C agencies is of great importance in solving difficult problems that the radical reorganization of a country's military entails. (1) Without detracting from the role of other C&C...

Determining combat strength.
January 1, 2003... One of the crucial parts in determining the quantitative and qualitative parameters of the military is validation and justification of combat strength levels. It always depended on a set of tried and tested techniques. However, various MoD...

Contract-based military in Russia: problems and solutions.
January 1, 2003... Debate around military reform in Russia has been going on for the past few years. The idea of creating a "professional military" is being increasingly aired in the media, which only arouses incomprehension and concern among the military...

On a new configuration of the RF Armed Forces.(Russian Federation)
January 1, 2003... The drastic shifts in the military-political situation in the world as well as in Russia's geostrategic position brought about changes in both the range and vector of threats to national security. In this context, there is a pressing need to...

Joint actions of fighter aviation and antiaircraft Missile forces in repelling air attacks.
January 1, 2003... The problem of joint operations involving more than one component service and type of weapon in large strategic formations and combined units of the Air Force and above all of the fighter aviation (FA) and Antiaircraft Missile Troops (AMT) is...

Engaging the enemy through missile forces and artillery in coalition operations.
January 1, 2003... The experience of local wars and local conflicts in the last decades of the 20th century and early in the 21st century is indicative of a stable trend consisting essentially in the desire of warring sides to decide the course and outcome of...

Tactics as the art of command and control.
January 1, 2003... Dear Reader! In 2002 we offered you excerpts from the first three chapters of a new work by prominent military theoretician Major General Ivan Vorobyov (ret.). We shall continue this publication in 2003. The book offers concentrated...

Tactics as the art of offensive.
January 1, 2003... An offensive brings victory. The troops on the offensive deliver blows with all means at their disposal and use the results to swiftly move into the enemy deployment, destroy and capture manpower, machines and equipment, and occupy key objects...

Modern theory and practice of arms development planning: main conclusions and lines of improvement.
January 1, 2003... Dear reader, under this new heading we are planning to publish material on the problems of weapons theory development, upgrading of the defense-industry complex, development of military-technical cooperation, etc. We hope this material will be...

How globalization influences Russian military-technological policy.
January 1, 2003... For several years, Russian and foreign economists have been engaged in a comprehensive study of globalization, a process that has engulfed the world economy. Military specialists have been analyzing it as well. Specifically, its essence and...

Future trends in precision arms development.
January 1, 2003... The changed nature of warfare due to lower operational densities in men and equipment and the switching from an area bombardment to selective bombardment of enemy targets has drawn special attention of experts to precision weapons. It is no...

New standards of naval maintenance.
January 1, 2003... The development and maintenance in running order of weaponry and equipment are described in military-technical concepts and guided by a policy commensurate with the country's financial and economic potentials. The general state of the RF Navy...

Military-technological cooperation within the CIS.
January 1, 2003... Military-technical cooperation (MTC) is a special component of international relations, an exclusive prerogative of the state, while MTC activities have a direct impact on the state's national security. Thus, virtually all technical aspects of...

Effectiveness of geophysical conditions on military operations.
January 1, 2003... Historical experience shows that geophysical conditions * have a considerable influence on the effectiveness of combat operations. They can facilitate them while they are often unfavorable and hamper military operations and sometimes totally...

How to estimate the costs of military research.
January 1, 2003... One of the main lines of upgrading the military-science complex is a change in the system of financing military science. (1) Research institutions (RI) of the RF Defense Ministry are financed under agreements for the performance of research...

R&D at the Russian Defense Ministry: recommendations on planning.
January 1, 2003... Against the background of current sweeping changes in the state military organization, the role of military science and that of preemptive scientific monitoring of reforms is as great as never before. For many reasons, however, the Defense...

Determining rational composition of missile forces and artillery weapons in an operation (combat).
January 1, 2003... As is evident from an analysis of major 20th-century operations and wars, the effective delivery of conventional fires (DCF) against an adversary is crucial to success in a war, while the impact this delivery has on the course and outcome of an...

Creativity criteria for students of higher military educational institutions.
January 1, 2003... Among the most important professional qualities of an officer is an ability to adopt timely, correct and unorthodox decisions and to take resolute and competent action in a complicated situation. His activities are in many cases directly...

Educational technology: substance and content.
January 1, 2003... Today the training of highly skilled specialists in many specialties at one higher military educational institution is aimed to achieve a concrete goal: fulfillment of the state order for training officers with prescribed professional...

Military-social politics: definition of the concept.
January 1, 2003... The state is a universal system-forming institute that administers all spheres of social life, that is, conducts policy through its power function in a public way. Administration of the social sphere is translated into its social policy...

Legal protection of intellectual property in the defense sphere.
January 1, 2003... One of the more important problems at the modem stage in Russia's economic development is securing the legal protection of results of research, development and technological works designated for military, special and dual purposes, so-called...

Russia's military-economic potential: state and prospects.
January 1, 2003... An officer who has devoted his life to defense of his homeland is naturally interested in the state and prospects of military organizational development and its economic foundation. Today this interest is intensified, on the one hand, by the...

Contemporary wars and Russian military organizational development.
January 1, 2003... Currently, we are witnessing a stage-by-stage transition to a new system of planning in the organizational development of the Armed Forces. This is the main point. But it is of no less importance from the point of view of military theory that...

Military science and new security threats.
January 1, 2003... If we take a critical look at the situation with ensuring the state's military security, we will see, among many other problems, the ineffectively tapped intellectual potential of the domestic military science. As a result, we have yet to hear...

Priorities of Russian military science.
January 1, 2003... Analysis of the military-political situation, Russia's internal situation and the state of its military organization points to a complex of military - scientific problems affecting the Russian Federation's defense capability. It would be...

Economics of the Navy: theoretical aspect.
January 1, 2003... Current expenditures on the defense of the Russian Federation cannot ensure a solution of the tasks of developing the Navy to the same extent as, for example, in the late 1980s. In the conditions of scarce financial and material resources, it...

Russian military academies: their rise and development.
January 1, 2003... The system for training the officer cadre, one embracing every command and control level from tactical to strategic, (1) took its final shape in Russia during the first thirty-odd years of the 19th century following the establishment, on the...

On the combat operations experience of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
January 1, 2003... One of the 20th-century armed conflicts involving our Armed Forces was the so-called Afghan crisis that started in the 1970s and lasted till the 1990s. Many politicians, diplomats and military officers sought (and are seeking today 14 years...