Military Thought articles from July 2003

Military Thought archives from July 2003

International information security: military aspects.
July 1, 2003... The information security doctrine of the Russian Federation, approved by the RF president on September 9, 2000, gives high priority to international cooperation in the information security sphere as an essential component of political,...

A strategy for active Non-Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
July 1, 2003... Real and potential world threats are what largely determines relations between states in the modern world. Proliferation of mass destruction weapons (MDW) is among such threats and it has become quite a problem lately for both the world...

Command and control of troops in internal armed conflicts.
July 1, 2003... The experience in the counter-terrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus shows that successful localization and resolution of an internal armed conflict is to a very large extent predicated on a synchronization of functions and activities of...

Tactics: the art of meeting engagement.
July 1, 2003... Meeting engagement, like no other form of combat action, requires from commanders and headquarters staffs special skills in its organization and conduct as it involves an extremely strained competition in initiative, speed of movement, fire...

Tactics: the art of full combat support.
July 1, 2003... Full combat support consists in the preparation and implementation of measures designed to maintain the high combat readiness and operational effectiveness of troops and the provision of favorable conditions for performance of combat missions....

Classification of information on arms and military equipment: economic aspects.
July 1, 2003... At present a lot of effort is being deployed to draw up the State Arms Program for 2006-2015 that, in accordance with the law, is to be approved in late 2004. According to preliminary forecasts, the volume of funding for development of arms and...

Forecasting the development of MFA armament: problems and solutions.
July 1, 2003... The missile and artillery armament of the Missile Forces and Artillery (MFA) is a subsystem of the Armed Forces armament system, so forecasting * and planning its development is an element of the integrated process of forecasting and planning...

Upgrading reconnaissance assets to enhance the use of MFA precision guided weapons.
July 1, 2003... Experience in using first models of precision guided weapons (PGW) in the Missile Forces and Artillery (MFA) showed that the required effectiveness of engagement of multiple targets with minimum missile expenditure can be ensured on the...

The human factor in the nuclear arms and nuclear power plants security systems.
July 1, 2003... Nuclear arms should remain to be of vital importance for Russia, especially during the period of restoring its economic might, in conditions when the U.S. Administration sometimes ignores the role of the United Nations, IAEA and other...

Search and rescue support of aerospace operations.
July 1, 2003... Aircraft have long been used in S&R operations. The first such operation in Russia was carried out on August 8, 1914 by Admiralty Lieutenant I.I. Nagurskiy under a special resolution of the Russian Government to locate the team of polar...

Mathematical modeling of combat operations of large Air Force strategic formations.
July 1, 2003... The experience of local wars and armed conflicts of the last decade shows that modern air combat operations will be exceptionally complex and large in extent. They can involve hundreds and even thousands of various offensive air weapons and air...

Upgrading effectiveness of fire estimation.
July 1, 2003... One of the most important tasks of military science is to develop methods of estimating effectiveness of employment of weapons. Of considerable importance are methods of estimating the effectiveness of employment of conventional weapons and,...

Estimating effectiveness of fire and EW assets.
July 1, 2003... Modern military conflicts are characterized by a sharp increase in the role of engaging hostile forces by fire and electronic-warfare equipment in operations (combats). The possibility of simultaneous pressure by fire and EW assets on hostile...

Combat training: urgent problems and solutions.
July 1, 2003... Combat training is an important part of training the Armed Forces. It should be organized and carried out continuously both in peacetime and wartime. When carried out continuously taking account of the military-political and...

Training tactical-echelon officers: organization and suggestions for improvement.
July 1, 2003... It has always been a priority for commanders and staffs to maintain a high level of officer professional and job training. It is for this reason that the RF Defense Minister's annual orders emphasize continual development and implementation of...

Strengthening military discipline and fostering a healthy atmosphere among military personnel.
July 1, 2003... Military discipline is a daily concern of the military district commander, his deputies, the military council, and unit and formation commanders at all levels in the district. Only a short while ago it was believed that crime, alcohol and drug...

Antiterrorist activities of the RF armed forces: how to upgrade the legal framework.
July 1, 2003... Terrorism is a most complicated phenomenon, dynamic and multifaceted. Apart from legal problems, it involves a wide range of other problems: economic, psychological, philosophical, historical, technological, etc. It includes such things as...

Problems of legal regulation of military social policy.
July 1, 2003... A key area in the activity of any state is its social policy. Military social policy, which is an independent component part of social policy, is based on a whole complex of specialized normative legal acts and is meant to direct the social...

Enhancing C&C efficiency in engagement and operation.
July 1, 2003... Methodological problems of military scientific investigations are a theme, to which the Military Thought has consistently given much coverage. But the dramatic and large-scale changes in conditions of emergence and character of confrontation in...

More on improving military service performance.(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... The Military Thought journal, as befits the main military-theoretical print organ of the RF Defense Ministry, has considerably expanded the scope of the discussion of problems related to enhancing military service performance in the RF Armed...

The role and place of the Armed Forces in the fight against illegal armed units.
July 1, 2003... Until quite recently the basic documents on the operational and combat employment of the Armed Forces were oriented to the fight against the external adversary and did not envisage their participation in domestic armed conflicts. It was...

Information superiority in warfare.
July 1, 2003... As of lately, problems of information warfare (IW), its essence and substance in present and future combat operations and battles, are regularly discussed in the periodical press. (1) It is noteworthy that various authors define information...

Psychological operations of U.S. military services at the present stage.
July 1, 2003... The situation in Iraq and around it has shown once again that the problem of identification of the main sources of military long- and short-term threats is still important for today's Russia. Its solution evidently depends largely on...

1943 Dnepr airborne operation: lessons and conclusions.
July 1, 2003... On routing, in summer 1943, 60 years ago, a German battle group near Kursk, the Soviet forces pressed home an attack in the South-Western strategic sector in a bid to reach the midstream Dnepr area and, without a halt, to seize a beachhead on...

Wartime strategic direction of Soviet Armed Forces: historical lessons.
July 1, 2003... Headquarters, Supreme High Command (Hq SHC) was the warfare direction center during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The General Staff relayed its decisions to commanders of the Armed Forces services, high commands of strategic sectors, Hq...

Organizing navigation, hydrographic, and hydrometeorological support for the Kursk lifting operation.
July 1, 2003... This year marks the third anniversary of the unique operation connected with the detection and lifting of the sunken fleet ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Kursk. As I see it, the experience of search and rescue operations and organization of...

Tehran 1943: military strategy and military policy (on the 60th anniversary of the 1943 Tehran Conference).
July 1, 2003... One of the most important military-strategic and political events of World War II was the Tehran Conference of the leaders of three Allied Powers of the anti-Hitler coalition--USSR, USA and Britain--held in Tehran from 28 November to 1 December...

Lessons from the war in Iraq.
July 1, 2003... Plans for the operation provided for the creation of three operational groups of ground forces: in the South, for operations from Kuwait; in the North, for operations from Turkey and the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq; and in the West, for...

Lessons from the war in Iraq.
July 1, 2003... Before discussing lessons from some or other preparations for war--and moral and political, and psychological preparation for war is precisely such an extremely important and necessary activity--it is necessary to dwell on some of the features...