Military Thought articles from January 2008

Military Thought archives from January 2008

Non-nuclear deterrence.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Deterrence (strategic deterrence) is understood as an aggregate of non-power and power measures (political, diplomatic, military, economic, etc.) undertaken by a state unilaterally or on coalition basis and aimed at convincing a potential...

Apropos the concepts of internal armed conflict resolution through the use of military force.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Alexander Ivanovich KALISTRATOV was born in Ukraine, in 1946. He served in the Armed Forces from 1964, graduated from the Kiev Combined Arms Command School, the M.V. Frunze Military Academy and its postgraduate department. Kalistratov held...

On international legal qualifications of information operations *.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The so-called information operations are considered nowadays as one of the most crucial and pressing forms of the use of force. It is a well-known fact that the United States of America is the world leader in this area: in their Armed Forces,...

The impact of wars on Russia's development and its role in the world.(Report)
January 1, 2008... In their essence, all wars, regardless of their historical conditions or causes, goals, methods and means of conduct or their results, have been and will continue to be merely an extension of policies pursued by the states' ruling classes and...

The role of infrastructure in raising the efficiency of missile armament.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Preparation of the territory of the country in military aspect has always been regarded as a component of preparation of the country for defense. The scope and contents of the territory preparation are not invariable, as they depend on the...

Main trends of development of air force logistics support system.(Report)
January 1, 2008... At the present state of the Air Force development the main attention is paid to improvement of their structure and combat composition, called forth by changes of the national military and political priorities, forthcoming arrival to the AF...

Coastal defense and anti-amphibious landing operations.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Leonid Viktorovich BOYKOV was born in 1952, in Moscow. He finished the Kazan Higher Tank Command School (1973), the M.V. Frunze Military Academy (1984). Boykov served in various command and staff positions in the Moscow, Transbaikal, and...

On some principles of development of system of arms and substantiation of state armament program.
January 1, 2008... Vasiliy Mikhailovich BURENOK was born on June 19,1957 in Chernigov Region. He graduated with honors from Kaliningrad Higher Military Engineering School (1979), night branch of Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building (1984) and the...

Improvement of the test complex of the Russian defense ministry.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The test Complex (TC) of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense is a complex of military administration agencies and a system of test sites with well-ordered relations between them; it is designed to conduct the testing of developed and...

How military spending influences national economy.
January 1, 2008... Gennady A. LAVRINOV was born on June 11, 1959 in Tambov. He finished F.E. Dzerzhlnsky Tambov Higher Military Air Engineering School (1981), post-graduate department of N.E. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (1987), and Higher Courses...

State regulation of prices for defense products.
January 1, 2008... One of the most urgent problems of defense production price formation in the conditions of unpredictable growth of its prime cost consists in more efficient use of the budgetary funds appropriated for the execution of the government defense...

Concept of "balanced system of armaments" revisited.
January 1, 2008... The correctness of the conceptual structure used to substantiate armaments system development prospects facilitates uniform understanding of research essence by specialists, as well as provides justification of selected criteria and parameters....

Mobile underwater robots: their part in Navy missions.
January 1, 2008... Along with immense advances in all areas of human activities, the late 20th century saw an aggravation of the existing global problems: depletion of mineral, fuel-and-energy and biological resources, ecological and natural disasters. Problems...

Methodical basis of feasibility studies of military aviation projects under the State Armaments Program.
January 1, 2008... The historical experience of militant actions convincingly testifies that the existence of well-equipped combat-ready military aviation is one of the key factors that contain the unleashing of aggression against Russia and, under certain...

How to develop the theory of combat operations engineer support.
January 1, 2008... As is evident from the record of armed confrontation between a number of countries or coalitions, some considerable changes in the character of wars and methods of warfare have occurred during the last few decades. This is the reason why the...

Evaluating the role of human factor in military decision-making.
January 1, 2008... At the present stage of the development of military science, military decision-making by command and control authorities is actually based on the technocratic concept that considers armament and military equipment as the leading factor in...

Intellectualization of electronic warfare control as an important way of raising EW efficiency.
January 1, 2008... THE HISTORY of military art demonstrates that the success of an operation (battle) depends both on the level of its preparation and the level of direct com--bat control. Analysis of the armed conflicts and local wars of recent decades has...

Topical issues of organization of metrological examination of weapons and military equipment.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Strike accuracy, kill probability, timely detection, reliability of performance, communications stability, operational security, combat readiness and effectiveness and other measures of combat action effectiveness of Armed forces are closely...

Mobility factor in the system of Armed Forces combat readiness.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Vladimir Ivanovich POPOV was born on December 24, 1949. After finishing the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School in 1971, he served with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. After finishing the Armored Troops Academy, he served in the Far...

Military strategic confrontation: forms and methods of influencing the economic potential of the enemy.(Report)
January 1, 2008... At the end of 2006, Voennaia mysl' (Military Thought) published an article written by Colonel D.V. Gordienko, Doctor of Military Sciences. The title of the article was "Voenno-ekonomicheskoye protivoborstvo: sushchnost, osnovnye napravleniya i...

Once again on what deception is all about.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Viktor Dmitrievich RYABCHUK was born at the village of Stanishevka, Tarashcha District, Kiev Region, on March 21, 1924. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War he was a combatant with a non-military youth patrol, ending the war as...

Apropos of spirituality in modern warfare.(Report)
January 1, 2008... THE ARTICLE "O razvitii systemy "chelovek--voennaya tekhnika" (On Developing the "Man-Military Equipment" System) makes a rather interesting inquiry into prospects for progress in national military affairs. Simultaneously it contains a number...

Simplified optimization models and their role in decision-making.(Report)
January 1, 2008... In Voennaia mysl' (Military Thought) No. 10/2004, the Editorial Board of the journal proposed to discuss the methods and ways of using information technologies in the practical activities of commanders and headquarters. O.N. Kalinovsky,...

On establishing the institution of military imams in the Russian army.(Report)
January 1, 2008... In the context of increasingly growing interest in the society and the government in organizing spiritual and ecclesiastical guidance and care of souls of military men and attracting priesthood to educational work in the troops, we believe that...

Where is the place for ecology in higher military education?(Report)
January 1, 2008... Valentina Vasilievna VOROBYEVA was born on January 8, 1951. At present, V.V. Vorobyeva is a post-doctoral fellow at the General Ecology Department of the Far East State University, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, senior lecturer of...

Information weapons and information warfare: realities and speculations.
January 1, 2008... Vladimir Ivanovich ORLYANSKIY was born on April 14, 1948, in the village of Divnoye, Stavropol Territory. V.l. Orlyanskiy graduated from Ordzhonikidze Higher General Military Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Yeremenko...

The need for a new paradigm of military research.(Report)
January 1, 2008... According to the modern philosophy of science, the major criterion of scientific validity is the principle of falsification* rather than that of verification (acknowledgment). The falsification principle gives a fundamental opportunity to...

Evolution of operational art.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Vasily Kyrillovich KOPYTKO was born in Minsk Region on November 12, 1948. He finished Kazan Higher Tank Command School (1970), Armored Troops Academy (1982), and General Staff Academy (1991). He held command and staff positions with the Group...