Military Thought articles from January 2006

Military Thought archives from January 2006

Main prerequisites for ensuring peace under present-day conditions.
January 1, 2006... Among the memorable dates, which are observed every year, there is one with particularly tragic meaning--the anniversary of the atomic bombings by U.S. aircraft of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Although, this...

Physical and geographic features of Russia's defense space.
January 1, 2006... The late 20th-century change in the correlation of world economic, political and military forces had a considerable effect on Russia's economic-geographic, political-geographic and military-geographic position. There are new geopolitical...

International legal regulation of military space activity.
January 1, 2006... At present, the U.S. is striving for exclusive supremacy in outer space. As a result, the situation may form itself, whereby it will be difficult for other countries to develop and to use the benefits of outer space. The possibility of the new...

Certain principles and problems in antiamphibious coast defense.
January 1, 2006... As it follows from an analysis of Western military press, the armed forces of the world's advanced military powers continue to attach much importance to maritime amphibious operations. These are among the crucial operational-strategic tasks,...

The armed conflict: counterinsurgency and counterterrorist operations.
January 1, 2006... The main distinguishing features of modern armed conflicts are as follows: the local (cluster like) character of combat operations; the absence of a continuous frontage as a line of confrontation between the sides to the conflict; the absence...

Countermeasures against enemy subversive-and-terrorist units.
January 1, 2006... The potential threat of the subversive-and-terrorist acts resorted to by the enemy at all stages of the operation (the battle) imposes on the Commanding General (the Commander) and the Staff the need for undertaking the adequate countermeasures...

Creation and employment of strategic reserves.
January 1, 2006... Evgenii Ivanovich MALASHENKO, was born in 1924; joined the USSR Armed Forces in 1941; during the Great Patriotic War, platoon commander, reconnaissance company commander, chief of intelligence at a naval infantry rifle brigade, a rifle division...

Information requirements in air defense control systems.
January 1, 2006... Yuri Ivanovich OMELCHENKO was born on March 15,1931 in the village of Petrushki near Kiev. Graduated from Pushkinskoye Higher Military Radiotronics School named after Air Marshal V.A. Sudets (1953), Air Defense Military Command Academy named...

On the improvement of scientific work in higher military education establishments.
January 1, 2006... Reforming the Armed Forces and of the system of military professional education as part of the Federal program "Reforming Military Education System in the Russian Federation till the Year 2010" envisages further improvement of scientific work....

Methodological aspects of accuracy and protection support for space dual-purpose positioning systems.
January 1, 2006... The high level of dynamism, complexity and aerospace nature of the current combat struggle inevitably stimulates the advanced countries all over the world to actively develop and phase in the wide variety of integrated facilities and systems...

On the management of day-to-day activities of SMF units and bodies of troops.(subordinate military force)
January 1, 2006... At this juncture, all spheres of management activity have become significantly expanded and complicated that imposes special requirements on the training of the heads of all management levels. The analysis of the quality of the management...

Some problems of provision for military service security in the RF Armed Forces.(Russian Federation)
January 1, 2006... The need for the provision of military service security (MSS) is stipulated, inter alia, by the clauses of Articles 37 and 41 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which accord every citizen the right to labor (in the conditions...

Complex scientific investigations: their role in the development of military pedagogy and military psychology.
January 1, 2006... The implementation of complex pedagogical and psychological investigations of the problems of professional military education is the distinctive feature in the activity of the teaching staff of Peter the Great SMF Military Academy. Over the...

The academy role in the development of the theory and practice of the deployment of Missile Forces and Artillery.
January 1, 2006... After creating F.Ed. Dzerzhinsky Academy branch in Leningrad, the new stage began in its Missile Forces and Artillery (MFA) personnel training activity, in investigating the problems of MFA tactical (combat) employment. The scientific...

The Academy role in the development of Gunnery and fire control.
January 1, 2006... Despite the 620-year history of the development of the Russian Artillery, the Gunnery and fire control emerged as the autonomous science only in the 19th century. In the course of the century-old history of the smoothbore artillery, there were...

Primary military collective as a social organization.
January 1, 2006... The military collective constitutes in itself the principal cell, which directly links the military person with the armed forces and with society as a whole, including it in the system of societal relations and social interactions by opening up...

Military courts and crime prevention in the troops.
January 1, 2006... While neither pertaining to the system of law enforcement agencies, nor to the makeup of crime fighting* entities, the military courts, nevertheless, exert strong precautionary influence by their activity on crime prevention in the Armed...

The army image: problems and solutions.
January 1, 2006... "Army image" is a relatively new ideological and political concept. In his report, entitled The Military of the New Era, at a meeting with senior command personnel of the RF Armed Forces in November 2004, the Russian defense minister formulated...

Military organization of the Allied State.
January 1, 2006... Before we get down to considering this theme, it is necessary to define the essence of the notion "military organization of a state," because there are considerable variant readings in its interpretation. The term "military organization of...

Theory of stand-off wars: debatable points.
January 1, 2006... An attempt to formulate and validate the problem associated with the elaboration of a theory of stand-off wars (1) has attracted sufficiently much attention in the military scientific circles in recent years. Its main ideas sparked off a media...

Principles of war as interpreted by modern military science in the west.
January 1, 2006... Western military theorists have to admit that the lack of spectacular successes in the military conflicts that the United States, its allies and temporary coalition "fellow travelers" pursued over the last decade can in many respects be...

Network centric war: myth or reality?
January 1, 2006... Yury Emelyanovich GORBACHEV was born in Odessa, on February 22, 1921. Joined the USSR Armed Forces in 1939. Graduated from the Ulyanovsk Military Signals School (1941), Military Signals Academy (1950), and Higher Academic Courses under M.V....

The most important steps in the making of the missilery topics at Peter the Great Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy.
January 1, 2006... On December 7, 2005, the SMF Military Academy named after Peter the Great marked its 185th anniversary. During its existence, the academy evolved as the leading military higher education establishment with the glorious work history. The...

At the start of military service security.
January 1, 2006... The prevention of death incidents and injuries has always been the foreground task of the military administration authorities and military office holders. The legal term "military service security" first came into being in the 1993 RF Law on...

Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy: 185 years of activity in Military education and science.
January 1, 2006... Vladimir Alexandrovich KONSTANTINOV, born 13 August 1952. Graduated from the Higher Artillery School (1973), Military Artillery Academy (1987), Higher Academic Courses of the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...

The academy contribution to the formation and development of Russia's armament system.
January 1, 2006... The history of Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy is connected not only with the training of officers for missile forces and artillery (MFA), but also with the evolvement of artillery and small arms. As late as the second half of the 19th...

Russian Artillery: the evolvement of the command and control system.
January 1, 2006... At all times in Russia, the Artillery and the training of qualified artillery personnel were treated by the Government with regard and attention. And this is not accidental, because the history of wars decisively confirms the prophetic words of...

Training of echelons of command and troops for combat operations: the lessons of history.
January 1, 2006... The success of modern combat activities (combat actions) largely depends on the task-oriented solution of the troop command and control mission. The training of the command echelons and the troops for combat operations is one of these missions....

Russia's Navy radio reconnaissance experience and the navy interaction with the Land Forces on seaward lines.
January 1, 2006... Valdimir Georgievich KIKNADZE, born April 22, 1976 in Grozny. Graduated with silver medal from Minsk Suvorov Military School in 1993, in 1998 graduated cum laude from Kaliningrad Higher Naval School. From 1998 till 2002 served in command...

The secret battle of the superpowers.(Taynaya bitva sverkhderzhav: Voennye zagadki istorii, 2d ed.)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (military experts disagree on when it began and when it ended) still contains many secrets and mysteries. This is why the latest work (1) by Col. A.S. Orlov (Ret.), D.Sc. (Hist.), a...

The academy of Military Sciences in 2001-2005: achievements and problems.
January 1, 2006... On December 17, 2005, a general meeting of the Academy of Military Sciences was held at the Cultural Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It was attended by senior personnel of the Defense Ministry, the General Staff, and other...

The Navy and Russia's security.
January 1, 2006... The Navy command has always had and will continue to have great respect for the Russian Academy of Military Sciences and its administration, appreciating its special role in developing domestic military thought. We are also highly appreciative...