Military Thought articles from July 2006

Military Thought archives from July 2006

The art of tactical defense.
July 1, 2006... Defense as a Component of Warfare* Defense, being a type of combat action, is essentially a reactive form in which one of the opposing sides realizes its combat capability. Defensive operations are almost always a retaliatory reaction to...

A retrospective probe into the growing role of armed confrontation in the aerospace sphere.
July 1, 2006... It has become obvious to military science in the last few decades that tanks and artillery, the main weapons of warfare, are being replaced by aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, and antiaircraft and antimissile systems that operate in the...

Network-centric war conception and its impact on the character of modern operations.
July 1, 2006... New challenges and threats to the security of Russia along with current optimization of the structure and composition of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation cause the necessity of adapting forms and methods of their employment to the...

Organizing scientific support for the development of naval weapons.
July 1, 2006... Naval vessels have always been--and will continue to be--some of the more complex structures in terms of design, building technology, their own life-support systems, and the versatility of functions related to their impacts on enemy targets. By...

Quality management of arms and military materiel.
July 1, 2006... The recent years have demonstrated that the problem of quality of arms and military materiel (AMM) has become most urgent and vital. (1) Its complicated character leads not only to the necessity of only taking a complex of measures which effect...

The role and place of tanks in contemporary military conflicts and wars.
July 1, 2006... The appearance of tanks is caused by objective changes in forms and ways of conducting combat operations during World War I. With the concentration of a great quantity of automatic small arms at the defense of the enemy, it became practically...

Main tendencies in developing domestic armored vehicles.
July 1, 2006... Development of combat armored vehicles manufactured by the domestic industry has always been carried out in accordance with existing operational-and-tactical tendencies in their combat employment. In its turn the efficiency of armored vehicles...

The laws and regularities of military control.
July 1, 2006... The law as the philosophic and scientific category constitutes the essential, significant, sustainable and iterative relation between the phenomena in the nature and society. The concept of law is congeneric to the notion of entity. There are...

On the use of underground space in the course of battle actions.
July 1, 2006... As is testified by the experience of the wars and armed conflicts, the military units of the Ground Forces constantly address the problem of underground space use in the course of battle actions. It is largely brought about by the considerably...

Military activity: culturological analysis.
July 1, 2006... Military activity is usually analyzed in the context of military sciences and by using various methods of such social science disciplines as philosophy, psychology, sociology. At the same time however, some methodological complexities tend to...

Urgent problems of women's involvement in military service in the armed forces of CIS countries.
July 1, 2006... Women's aspiration to social equality with men, their strong desire to perform wider social duties have led to cardinal changes of their role in the society. Women are now more actively participating in traditional male activity categories such...

Strategic management and the development of armed forces.
July 1, 2006... At the present time, by the action of the processes occurring objectively in the world the sustained tendencies of social-political and military-strategic nature are being formed and are making themselves felt, which will undoubtedly influence...

Contemporary electronic countermeasures.
July 1, 2006... The contemporary stage of development of the Armed Forces in the leading states demonstrates concentration of the main efforts on improving radio communications systems as one of the most important components to provide informational...

Optimization of the content of combat service moral and psychological support.
July 1, 2006... Among the vectors for the enhanced effectiveness of the moral and psychological support (MPS) for military activities, the optimization of the content of this type of support holds a prominent place. To all intents and purposes, the attainment...

Basic historical trends in professional psychological selection of military personnel.
July 1, 2006... Any historical experience is always interesting to examine, especially by revealing its basic tendencies in the course of events. Professional psychological selection (PPS) of military personnel is not an exception here. Its history originated...

Psychological maintenance in military pilot training.
July 1, 2006... The "psychological maintenance" concept has become widespread since the early 1980s. It rests on the idea of system-based usage of psychology at all the stages of professional training in aviation. These stages could actually include the...

Problems of education of military personnel in the Navy and military pursuits of the state.
July 1, 2006... Since my Cadet times, I still remember the saying of the Empress Catherine II, one of the greatest women in the history of Russia, who, as early as the 18th century, wrote: "The safest, but also the most painstaking leverage for making people...

Some views on Russian weapons' role in the epoch of modern challenges.
July 1, 2006... The Armed Forces' problems, specifically the army's weapons, have become the focus of active discussions lately. Have the weapons developed during the last few decades lost their importance? And, generally, is it necessary to develop new means...

Military systemology and military informatization: unity of conceptual approaches.
July 1, 2006... We were impelled to take up the pen by the publication of the article "Military Science and Military Systemology." (1) Against the background of general speculations about the utility of the systems approach in the context of efforts to create...

The essence, contents and significance of warcraft principles revisited.
July 1, 2006... The April 2005 issue of the Voennaia mysl' journal published the article by Capt. I Rank Ye.V. Vassilyev "On Certain Principles of Military Art," in which he correctly points out that in recent years the sections concerned with the principles...

On fighting capabilities of military units.
July 1, 2006... The thorough study of the experience of modern wars and armed conflicts promotes the emergence of more progressive views about the conduct of battle actions, the employment of military power in the operation (combat), as well as the apparition...

Class ranks and military ranks: social nature and correlation problems.
July 1, 2006... At present when the reforms of social relations are being implemented under the conditions of democratization and active formation of civil society, the State Management keeps playing the leading role in the process of steady and effective...

The role of naval science in Russia's naval force development.
July 1, 2006... The Naval Science as a Theoretical Foundation for the Navy's Development The military science, in its essence, is a system of knowledge about the laws and the military-strategic character of wars and armed conflicts, ways of averting them,...

What is the "teaching experience" in military education today?
July 1, 2006... There are three basic viewpoints known to be in the attitude to the past: nihilistic, apologetic and dialectic. O.K. Meshkov virtually expressed the essence of the first viewpoint in his article "The Armed Service Academy: the problem of...

The hierarchy of priorities in the theory and practice of military construction.
July 1, 2006... The Voennaia mysl' journal has already discussed the problems of priority assessment in working out the theory and practice of creation and implementation of the RF military doctrine. The RF President V.V. Putin and the RF Defense Minister S.B....

The Kyrgyz Republic: security matters.
July 1, 2006... The military-political situation in Central Asia--due to its geographic location in the present geopolitical situation and the recent internal political events in a number of countries in this region--remains complicated. It is also to very...

An outstanding figure in Russian military engineer art (150th birth anniversary of K.I. Velichko).(Konstantin Ivanovich Velichko)(Biography)
July 1, 2006... May 20 (June 1), 2006 is the 150th birth anniversary of General-Engineer Konstantin Ivanovich Velichko, (1) an outstanding figure in Russian military engineer art. Konstantin Velichko was born into a noble family at the village of Korocha,...

A new paradigm of military-economic science.
July 1, 2006... In December 2005, the Military Financial/Economic University hosted a scientific practical conference that discussed the results of a research program called Formation of a New Paradigm of the Military Economic Science. The conference...