Military Thought articles from July 2001

Military Thought archives from July 2001

Reforming the Internal Troops: Problems and Solutions.
July 1, 2001... Processes afoot in this country, the content and character of transformations in the defense and law enforcement sphere imperatively dictate the need for a qualitative improvement in the functioning of the Russia Interior Ministry system, whose...

More on the Military Budget.
July 1, 2001... In the conditions of reform in the Armed Forces, the conceptual platform for their further development is being reviewed with due account of newly arising geopolitical and economic factors. The most serious problems include those of determining...

Combat Control and Commander's Intellect.
July 1, 2001... In his article, "Upgrading Command and Control: Pressing Problems," Army General M.A. Gareyev, president of the Academy of Military Sciences, says, with good reason, that "it is time for a more critical rethink of many things with regard to...

CBR Protection as Part of an Integrated Troop Protection System in Combat Operations.(chemical, biological and radioactive warfare)
July 1, 2001... The present-day situation requires that in order to preserve the operational effectiveness of troops (forces) and enable them to perform their tasks, effective weapon systems and military equipment and well trained personnel be backed up with a...

Problems of Providing Topographic and Geodetic Information to Tactical Command and Control Echelons.
July 1, 2001... As is evident from the record of employment of the Russian Federation Armed Forces in the late 20th century, all-round topographic, geodetic and navigation support for troops is a crucial component of combat operations. [1] Historically, this...

Stereological Analysis of an Operational Sector in the Process of Troop Command and Control.
July 1, 2001... Modern operations place considerably higher demands on quality of command and control of troops (forces) and weapons. This is due primarily to the fact that success of combat operations is increasingly dependent on command and control of troops...

State Arms Program: Verification of Implementation.
July 1, 2001... Effectiveness of the performance of missions entrusted to the Russian Federation's Armed Forces and other troops is determined at bottom by the state of the weapons system. [*] The latter is developed under programs and plans, the most...

Military Functional Standardization: General Approach to Solving the Problem.
July 1, 2001... One of the major tasks to be resolved, along with the other tasks, during the course of reforming the Russian Federation Armed Forces, is to determine the role and place of military standardization [*] in the general process of creating and...

Assessing Efficiency of the System of Missile and Artillery Armament of Missile Forces and Artillery.
July 1, 2001... The development, production, content and employment of missile and artillery armament (MAA) of the missile forces and artillery (MFA) are very costly. For this reason all decisions here should be carefully considered. This calls for devising...

Ideological Principles of Moral-Psychological Support in the Armed Forces.
July 1, 2001... A nation's ideology is one of the key factors behind its morale. The latter ensures continuity of historical experience, combining present-day reality and a nation's prospects for the future, and defining a specific path that either leads...

Molding the Individuality of the Military Professional: A Theoretical Aspect.
July 1, 2001... Latter-day efficiency reports and character references increasingly often refer to junior and mid-level officers as "sluggish." The lack of initiative and volitional qualities characterizing a "fighter," passive performance of one's functional...

Naval Logistics: Some Aspects of Enhancing Efficiency.
July 1, 2001... The radical political and economic transformations carried out in the country over the past decade called for essentially new approaches to the problem of maintaining the combat readiness of the Navy as the key component of containing the...

The Military Unit as Part of the Armed Forces' Economic System.
July 1, 2001... The Armed Forces constitute a complex militarily oriented socio-economic system, operating as part of the national economy. It is impossible to enhance the effectiveness of this system without identifying its internal mechanisms. The article...

Invasion: What Is It?
July 1, 2001... The concept of "invasion" applied to the beginning of an armed aggression is frequently used in military science and theoretical works. Any careful observer can say that such terms as "enemy invasion" and "fighting off an invasion have lost...

We May Endanger Russia's Military Security by Misrepresenting Real Threats.
July 1, 2001... This contribution has been prompted by the article "Russia's National Security in the Early 21st Century" by V.N. Tsigichko and A.A. Piontkovaskiy that appeared in Military Thought, No. 2, 2001. The authors have offered absolutely correct and...

Air Support of Troops.
July 1, 2001... There are several schools of thought in the domestic national military theory on the role and essence of air support of troops. While being perfectly natural in the evolution of military science, this situation is becoming increasingly...

EW Operations.(electronic warfare)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... THE MODERN concept of electronic warfare (EW), as the principal type of operations support was developed between the 1950s and 1970s marked by a rapid development of electronics, computer technology, automated troops and weapons control systems...