Military Thought articles from July 2004

Military Thought archives from July 2004

Geopolitics: its role and impact on the organizational development and employment of the RF Navy.(Russian Federation)
July 1, 2004... Geopolitics as a system of objective laws predetermining the evolution and development of particular world powers (and of the world system as a whole) and influencing their internal and foreign policies, depending on their geographic situation,...

Topical aspects of nuclear deterrence and strategic nuclear sufficiency.
July 1, 2004... The array of problems related to nuclear deterrence and strategic nuclear sufficiency is fairly broad and has a number of aspects, the principal ones, in the view of the present authors, being military-political, military-strategic,...

Globalization and its impact on countries' military-political activity.
July 1, 2004... The history of human society can be seen as a reflection of a progressing struggle, its ultimate objective being the preservation of society's developmental model--that is to say, the customs and rules of existence that are most comfortable to...

Navy today: main trends in its development and employment.
July 1, 2004... The line-up of forces in the World Ocean that saw a change at the turn of the 21st century, as well as the growing concern of the leading powers with re-sharing sea and oceanic territories for their further development with the purpose of...

Combat employment of missile troops and artillery in internal armed conflicts.
July 1, 2004... Experience in the counterterrorist operation in the Northoeo Caucasus shows that the effective fulfillment of the tasks of localizing and resolving an internal armed conflict is to a very large degree contingent on performance by missile forces...

System design of the development of weapons and military equipment.
July 1, 2004... Development and improvement of weapons and military equipment (WME) is a complex process mostly aimed at securing their conformity to the changing conditions of warfare. The main documents that determine the parameters of the weapons system of...

Demands on weapons systems of the RF AF long-range aviation.
July 1, 2004... Long-range and strategic aircraft systems of the long-range aviation (LRA) will be one of the most important weapons systems in the RF Armed Forces (RF AF) both under the present conditions and prospectively. Until recently, they only formed...

Information compatibility in newly developed automated control system of Missile Forces and Artillery.
July 1, 2004... One of the current trends in developing the Missile Forces and Artillery (MF & A) is the creation of a reconnaissance-weapon system (RWS) representing a hierarchically, organizationally, technically, informationally and functionally integrated...

Geoinformation systems: questions of development.
July 1, 2004... Analysis of local wars and regional conflicts of last decades shows that changes occurring around the world at the end of the 20th century have led to a position where earlier C & C forms and methods prove insufficiently effective under modern...

Computer-based forms of operations training: problems and solutions.
July 1, 2004... First computer-based forms of operations training (CFOT) were developed at the end of the 1970s in the U.S. armed forces. A decade later the USSR and then Russia followed suit. CFOT are now in increasing use in the military of practically all...

Methodology of qualitative analysis of large military systems.
July 1, 2004... One of the results of studies carried out by the 27th Central Research Institute of the RF Defense Ministry over the last 15 years is the development of a new class of highly aggregated mathematical models (AMM) to appraise combat capabilities...

Intelligent information systems: application and principles of designing.(military science)
July 1, 2004... One of the principal courses of action in making modern automated systems of the organizational-information type more efficient is to lend them a measure of intelligence. This means that in addition to the usual functions of collecting,...

Specialized mathematical support and software for the automated control system: theoretical aspect.
July 1, 2004... Command and control of the Armed Forces is an increasingly topical problem under the modern circumstances. Much stricter demands are imposed on the organization of information and intellectual support as materialized in the automated control...

Stages in developing methodological assets and software to be used in planning armed forces employment.
July 1, 2004... Planning the use of forces and weapon systems is seen as one of the main measures in preparing forces, troops and systems of armaments for combat employment in would-be wars. Planning is essentially about command and control agencies developing...

The use of military aviation in emergency situations, for disaster relief.
July 1, 2004... Devastating earthquakes, flooding, forest fires, accidents at nuclear power stations, and other emergency situations have always been, and continue to be, an unavoidable part of society's life, and it does not appear possible to avoid them in...

Factoring in the impact of man-made emergency situations on combat operations.
July 1, 2004... Analysis of the contemporary views of foreign military experts on forms and methods of conducting combat action points to the possibility of man-made emergency situations (MES) being created in zones of armed conflicts. Thus, the principles of...

Energy security and armed forces fuel supply problems.
July 1, 2004... As is evident from historical records, the importance of fuel for combat operations and warfare in general has been growing rapidly. Western diplomats claimed, after WWI, that the Entente Cordiale had won by saddling the crest of the petroleum...

Military transport communications agencies: their role in reforming the Russian Federation's transport system.
July 1, 2004... The Russian Federation's transport system, which includes the main types of publicly used transport--railway, road, sea, internal water, air, and pipeline--is a crucial component of the state's infrastructure complex and an indispensable...

Technical equipment level of the Road Repair and Traffic Control Troops: present state and prospects.
July 1, 2004... Currently motor roads are one of the most important components of the national transport complex. Being double-purpose facilities, they are used both in peacetime and wartime, and help to address not only national and regional socioeconomic...

Some aspects of upgrading communications system of the RF Rear Services.
July 1, 2004... The communications system of RF Armed Forces Rear Services is a component part of the military intended for ensuring continuous control of rear services to troops (forces) by combined units, ordinary units and centrally subordinated...

Trends in upgrading military clothing and uniforms and related gear supply rates.
July 1, 2004... Indoctrination and instilling the sense of organization and order has always relied on clothing and uniforms in our military. This is why the Russian Armed Forces have always assigned a special role to military uniform. Alongside its purely...

Enhancing logistical support efficiency.
July 1, 2004... Throughout the entire history of the new Russia, attempts have been made to reform its military organization. The reason for such a policy lies in the change of national military-political, military-strategic and military-economic priorities...

Catering arrangements for contract servicemen.
July 1, 2004... The experiment conducted at the 76th Airborne Division in manning military units with military personnel serving under contract as privates or sergeants has clearly demonstrated the need to look for new approaches in organizing their catering...

Historiography of security problem studies.
July 1, 2004... Analysis of numerous sources and literature on the problem of security reveals that various theoretical and methodological approaches to studying this complex and multiaspect phenomenon have emerged. This is easy to see even on the level of...

Place and role of EW in operations of large strategic formations of services and components of the armed forces.(electronic warfare)
July 1, 2004... The new phase of the scientific and technological revolution of the end of the 20th century related to computerization of the military in industrialized nations and equipping them in the future with weapons based on new physical principles...

Military specialist training system: another view.
July 1, 2004... Speaking at a conference of command staff of the Armed Forces, the President of the Russian Federation noted that one of the priority lines of consistent and long-term force development is a reform of military education. And this is quite...

On professional higher education.(military science)
July 1, 2004... Today higher education in this country is in the midst of a reform. During the development of the RF Law on Education and after its publication the Committee on Higher Education prepared a number of documents. The Decree On the Introduction of...

Organization of the state armament system: evolution and development.
July 1, 2004... Analysis of domestic and foreign historiography on the process of providing troops (forces) of various states and nations (peoples) with military equipment (PTME) as one of the main types of human activity from ancient times up until now (1)...

Building a single military information network: problems.
July 1, 2004... There is a dramatic growth in importance and public relevance of information as it is having stronger influence on all aspects of public life with no exception. Various fields of societal activities are adopting on a broad scale new information...

Effectiveness of aviation in local wars.
July 1, 2004... Local wars in recent years demonstrated dramatic growth in effectiveness of combat aviation operations achieved through painstaking reconnaissance and target designation, shorter time between detection of targets and engaging them and wide...

Effective engagement of the adversary: from theory to practice.
July 1, 2004... In recent years, there has been a wideranging discussion in the pages of Military Thought of theory of effective engagement of the adversary in modern combined-arms combats and operations. During the course of this discussion and as a result of...

On the extreme need of scientific foundations for the organizational development of Russian Armed Forces.
July 1, 2004... The start of the Great Patriotic War was marked by a complete reorganization of the Red Army. The General Staff explains the fact by a number of reasons, but one is particularly attracted by the following: "non-conformity of the prewar...

NATO's strategic concept: basic military-political aspects.
July 1, 2004... NATO's strategic concept was adopted in April 1999 at the Washington Summit of the North Atlantic Alliance and is, in essence, the bloc's military doctrine with distinct political and military components. It establishes the Alliance's aims and...

Creating air combat forces: past and present.
July 1, 2004... The question of what kind of air combat force the state should have for military operations in a continental theater of operations (TO) arose for the first time when aircraft began to be used on a mass scale during WWI. In 1918 alone, Germany...

To our readers.
July 1, 2004... On the eve of the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, we are once again revisiting the problem of falsification of history. This applies, in particular, to Ledokol, a book by Viktor Rezun (Suvorov), widely...

The military doctrine of the Red Army on the eve of the Great Patriotic War: myths and facts.
July 1, 2004... Soviet historiography did not provide a complete picture of the history of the Great Patriotic War. Victories scored by the Red Army oftentimes were excessively praised and glorified, while its failures and lost battles were mentioned only in...

Modern information technologies to simulate use of space-based assets*.
July 1, 2004... Exploring the possibility of using outer space for military objectives was in the center of attention of the country's government and military leadership long before the launching of the first earth satellite. Space exploration in Russia and...