Military Thought articles from July 2005

Military Thought archives from July 2005

Air force and air defense troops in the Great Patriotic War and in contemporary military operations.
July 1, 2005... Throughout its history mankind has repeatedly adjusted and re-adjusted the forms and methods of armed struggle, its content and role. At all times, however, there was a single type of weapons the mass use of which determined the nature of wars...

Russia's strategic deterrence: security functions and development prospects.
July 1, 2005... The nuclear arms race did not begin today or yesterday, but more than 65 years ago. It was triggered by Nazi Germany. Back in 1938, Otto Hahn, a German radiation chemist, discovered that under certain conditions the uranium nucleus could be...

State policy and information security during military conflicts.
July 1, 2005... In order to counter a wide range of threats to national security in the information sphere, an appropriate state policy is formulated and put into effect in the Russian Federation. Since the enactment of the RF Law on Security in 1992, Russia's...

Upgrading the performance of command and control agencies on the operational level.
July 1, 2005... The armed conflicts of the past decade have once again shown convincingly that superiority in command and control over an adversary helps to create favorable conditions for success in warfare. Priority here is given to the development of...

Special information operations in armed conflicts.
July 1, 2005... The experience in the resolution of armed conflicts in recent decades shows that information warfare (IW) is becoming part and parcel of any stage thereof (the onset of conflict, the outbreak of hostilities, aggravation of tensions, crisis,...

Problems in preparing and conducting army offensive (counteroffensive) operations and possible solutions.
July 1, 2005... Military security of the Russian Federation is one of the main elements of national security and a crucial line in the activities of this nation. The main aim is being able to react fittingly to threats likely to arise in the 21st century. ...

Operational command and control in electronic warfare.
July 1, 2005... In future warfare (combat operations), opposing sides will attach special importance to the so-called decapitation strikes on troops and weapons command and control systems. Due to the broad use of electronic (EW) and information (IT)...

Defense industry complex: current state and development prospects*.
July 1, 2005... The procedure to elaborate a state weapons program (SWP) includes three key phases: making sure how much money the state can afford toward funding the military, formulating a rational plan of developing its weapons system, and estimating the...

Integration processes in the defense industry complex.
July 1, 2005... The development of the defense industry complex (DIC) at the beginning of the 21st century and therefore its ability to implement the government armaments program will be contingent on the ongoing integration processes. These processes have to...

Reducing the radar cross section of arms and military equipment.
July 1, 2005... The well-known trends in the evolution of reconnaissance and precision guided weapon systems, based on the use of the latest achievements in electronics, information science, and computer technology, brought about a qualitative increase in the...

Operation, maintenance, and disposal of arms and military equipment: enhancing the effectiveness of control systems.
July 1, 2005... The core of the RF Defense Ministry's military-technical policy in the operation and maintenance of arms and military equipment (AME) is ensuring the combat readiness (serviceability) of AME as the key component of the combat system of the...

Information technology for command and control.
July 1, 2005... There has been no lack of publications of late related one way or another to problems of informatization of the military. Most of them, however, look at what we think are individual, albeit important, questions of automating command and control...

Strategic operation in the Far Eastern TO: problems of technical support.
July 1, 2005... The specific physical and geographic conditions in the Far Eastern TO (long coastline, numerous insular and peninsular zones) warrant the conclusion that an aggression by a potential adversary in this region is likely to assume the form of an...

Efficiency factors in combat operations.
July 1, 2005... The peculiarity of war as a bilateral process, its dynamism and mobility generate a huge number of factors whose influence on the course and outcome of combat operations often becomes implicit and enhances the degree of uncertainty of military...

Electronic warfare and heterogeneous weapons: mission in engagement.
July 1, 2005... In order to secure information supremacy, armies in the more developed world countries intensively improve communications and data transmission systems in large strategic formations and combined units of the land forces by developing...

On the development of the structure of combined-arms units.
July 1, 2005... Current shifts afoot in the views on the scale, character and aims of warfare should inevitably entail changes both in the methods of employment of combined-arms units at all levels and in their TOE structure. But historical experience teaches...

Estimating efficiency of command and control system in the face of enemy pressure.
July 1, 2005... Much focus in recent years has been on both theoretical and applied research into the functioning of command and control systems at the tactical level. Increased requirements are placed on the system's reliability, promptness and stability in...

Preserving law, order and military discipline among enlistees: psychological aspects.
July 1, 2005... The armed forces of the Russian Federation consistently convert stand-by combined units and units to enlistment-based manpower acquisition. A pointed issue in this connection is maintaining law and order and military discipline in this category...

Antiaircraft missile defense: past, present and future.
July 1, 2005... The almost one-century old confrontation between offensive air and air defense forces has today reached a basically new level. One of the principal elements in this confrontation were at first antiaircraft artillery (AA) forces and assets and...

"Supremacy on the sea": definition and interpretation.
July 1, 2005... The three centuries old history of the Russian navy has been marked by an almost continual dispute over whether the country needs a navy in the first place. And if so, what kind of a navy should be built? Affirmative answers to these questions...

Russia's military-financial policy.
July 1, 2005... Problem Statement The breakup of the USSR made it necessary to reduce the Armed Forces and to reform the military system of Russia. The state of international relations allowed us to get down to a solution of these tasks. In other...

The ideal warrior.(Russian history)
July 1, 2005... Defending against formidable invaders during many centuries of its history, Russia won outstanding victories in the final analysis thanks to the superiority of its soldiers. This was in graphic evidence during the Great Patriotic War of...

Strategic force deployment: the time factor.
July 1, 2005... Experience in modern local wars and armed conflicts shows convincingly that successful repulsing of aggression is to a very large extent predicated on the composition and status of armed forces as they enter into a war. So it is extremely...

Communications and data transmission systems of U.S. armed forces: current state and development prospects.
July 1, 2005... Military leadership of the U.S. Armed Forces is persistently looking for ways to upgrade its systems of communications and data transmission included among the projected assets of information support of combat operations and actively...

Geophysical warfare.
July 1, 2005... In the summer of 2004, an unprecedented drought hit Cuba. The clouds of dust kicked up by hot winds were reminiscent of tornadoes typical of Cuba's "unkindly northern neighbor"--the United States of America. The dust storms snuffed out many...

Defensive operation of the Western Front troops in Byelorussia in 1941.
July 1, 2005... The tragic beginning of the Great Patriotic War has acquired new significance in the year of the 60th anniversary of the Victory, the celebrations of which symbolized the triumphal conclusion of the war. Certain changes took place in our...

How information revolution influences development prospects of modern society.
July 1, 2005... Launched in November 2003, a U.S. National Intelligence Council initiative comprised several international conferences and seminars, which studied and assessed leading expert views on the problem of societal transformation under the impact of...

New book on the Russo-Japanese war.(Flot v russko-iaponskoy voyne i sovremennost)(Book review)
July 1, 2005... A book by Admiral of the Fleet Ivan Kapitanets about the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905 appeared late in 2004 to mark the centenary of the war. (1) The author has carefully analyzed and discussed the course of the war, its specific features,...

On the special issue of Voennaia mysl'.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... We have already published a special issue of our journal called I.N. Vorobyov on Tactics of Combined-Arms Battle that brought together between two covers the materials supplied with tactical diagrams and drawings that appeared in our journal in...

An advanced communications system for RF Armed Forces mobile formations.(Russian Federation)
July 1, 2005... As advances in science and technology enable constant improvements in the systems of weapons, combat and special equipment, the forms and methods of warfare are rapidly changing. The number of more complicated links between combined and...