Military Thought articles from July 2007

Military Thought archives from July 2007

Military-political aspects of future cooperation between Russia, India and China in the bilateral format and within SCO.
July 1, 2007... Prospects of Multilateral Cooperation within Shanghai Cooperation Organization It is not at all accidental that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has been repeatedly mentioned in this paper. Speaking about interstate cooperation...

Experience of the CIS Antiterrorist Center in terrorist threat neutralization.(Report)
July 1, 2007... The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) currently represents a community of states generated in new geopolitical conditions and based on historical roots, traditions, economic cooperation and spiritual affinity of their people. CIS member...

About the present-day context of "national security" concept.
July 1, 2007... A lot of attention is being paid nowadays (in particular, by the country's research community and state structures) to the issues dealing with the Russian Federation national security maintenance. This is explained by quite a number of reasons,...

Naval activity: key problems of development.
July 1, 2007... In compliance with the naval doctrine of the Russian Federation, naval activity is understood as the aggregate of government efforts aimed at studying, developing and using the World Ocean in the interests of defense and security of the country...

Military Academy of the General Staff: history and modern times (devoted to the 175th anniversary from the date of foundation).
July 1, 2007... On December 8, 2007, we are celebrating the 175th anniversary from the date of foundation of the Imperial Military Academy of Russia, currently--the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces. The 175 years'...

Military strategy of the Russian Federation in the early 21st century.
July 1, 2007... The development of the military thought in this country is indissolubly linked with the Strategy Department established on December 8 (November 26 Old Style), 1832, simultaneously with the Imperial Military Academy. The Department was focused...

Navy's role in strategic deterrence.
July 1, 2007... In spite of the seemingly obvious conclusion that the armed forces during all their history have been the most effective instrument of national policies not only during the war but also in peacetime, Russian military art principles are...

Organizational development and streamlining of the Internal Troops as part of the state military system, based on the experience of the Great Patriotic War.
July 1, 2007... The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1941-1945) required the mobilization of all of the country's resources to repel the enemy: the deployment of strategic reserves and a reorganization of all services and branches of the country's...

Some aspects of concepts refinement in military art.(Report)
July 1, 2007... In military art the basic concepts are "armed struggle," "military and combat actions," "types, forms, methods of military (combat) operations" etc. They are used for the development of conceptual regulations on the deployment of the Armed...

Modern tactics: the analysis of the state-of-the-art and trends of development.
July 1, 2007... Perception of the state of the art of tactics and trends of its development inspires to search for manifestation of new laws being a key to penetration into the future. Evolution of tactics has passed and still is under way through a chain of...

On fighting capabilities of groups of troops in a combined arms operation (battle).
July 1, 2007... In the recent years articles having been published more and more often in many editions of a military press including the pages of the magazine "Military Thought" on questions of development of the theory of employment of troops in wars and...

The evolution and development of the theory and practice of the operational art at the General Staff Military Academy.(Report)
July 1, 2007... The Operational Art Department at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) was formed in the 1930s. Its creation, in 1936, was a timely and natural reaction by the country's leadership to the...

Fire destruction of the enemy in defensive operation of operational strategic large formation.
July 1, 2007... The results of the largest operations and wars of 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries show that the role of fire destruction of the enemy (EFD) steadily grows. The analysis of modern views on EFD in defensive operation of operational...

The role of operational-tactical requirements in warship development.
July 1, 2007... There is a close interconnection between the character of the tasks of protecting state interests at sea and the functional characteristics of weapon systems. The tasks that are assigned to the Navy, as well as the forms and methods of...

Organizing operation, maintenance and storage of weapons and military equipment: scientific-methodological and regulatory support.(Report)
July 1, 2007... A number of publications on urgent matters in the development of systems engaged in operation, maintenance and storage (OMS) of weapons and military equipment (WME), including those appearing in Military Thought, (1) increasingly focus on how...

Military satellite communications systems: current state and development prospects.
July 1, 2007... The efficiency of military presence of limited contingents in zones where a clash of interests takes place is primarily determined by command and control capabilities in the tactical echelon. Another crucial factor in this sense is the ability...

Defense-industrial complex: contributing to the intensification of the Russian economy.
July 1, 2007... In the light of the national socioeconomic development assignments the RF President posed in his April 2007 Address to the Federal Assembly, the problem of how to increase economic growth rates is of primary importance for Russia. The existing...

Military command agencies: working with the media in the period of an armed conflict.
July 1, 2007... Wars and armed conflicts have long become a stable and leading media theme. If somewhere in the world certain opposing forces start sorting out relations with the help of military force, reports about it immediately appear in the electronic and...

A system-structural view on the use of underground space by troops.
July 1, 2007... Armed warfare as the main type of confrontation in wars, military conflicts, armed uprisings, mutinies and coups was for a long time mostly a land-based affair. In connection with the emergence and massive employment of aviation in the early...

Coalition issues in Russian and Western military science.
July 1, 2007... Concepts of military coalitions and coalition military operations emerged in the foreground as a distinct object of study at the turn of the 19th century, or practically at the same time as European military science came into its own. This was...

On multilevel training of military specialists.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... The involved and dynamic nature of present-day service-and-combat activity, use of the newest IT, weapons and military equipment in it, dependence of the course and outcome (results) of combat actions on the content and quality the preliminary...

The problem of student adaptation in the process of training in the military higher education establishment.
July 1, 2007... The main segment of trainees in military higher education establishments (colleges, universities) are students qualifying to take appropriate officer positions in the army and navy. In the opinion of ex-Minister of Defense S.B. Ivanov, it is...

Training of officer personnel for aerospace defence system of the Russian Federation.
July 1, 2007... The effective operation and development of the system of aerospace defense of the state, apart from other conditions, require military specialists, who know equally well the skills of developing and controlling all the integral components of...

Priorities in the study of forces (facilities) of aerospace attack and of organization of reconnaissance.
July 1, 2007... The study of aerospace attack forces and facilities (ASAF) holds one of the principle places in the professional training of officers--specialists of aerospace defense (ASD). The validity and success in taking the decisions concerning the...

Systems analysis: recommendations for problem identification, formulation, and study.
July 1, 2007... Our previous publication (1) considered the methodological, conceptual, and substantive aspects of systems analysis, including its basic lines and stages, as well as the role and importance of systems analysis procedures in the methodological...

Deceiving the enemy: some points of essence.
July 1, 2007... Singular in its penetration, the article "How to Learn to Deceive the Enemy" (1) by V.N. Karankevich is unlikely to have left anyone indifferent. As is evident from its content, style of reasoning and logical order, all that the author says is...

Philosophy of war and theory of how to direct modern confrontation.(Editorial)
July 1, 2007... In recent years this journal gave much attention to some fundamental problems of military science. Suffice it to refer to articles by M.A. Gareyev, S.A. Tyushkevich and V.A. Vinogradov, as well as some latest contributions by V.V. Kruglov and...

Defense industry complex potentialities for RF Armed Forces employment in regional war.(Russian Federation)
July 1, 2007... The RF Military Doctrine approved by the RF President's Decree No. 706 dated April 21, 2000 places high emphasis on the employment of the Armed Forces for repelling an attack, however the contingency of the regional war (theatre war) being...

The way the military leaders think: looking into the past.
July 1, 2007... Any state, and its military-political leaders in the first place, are concerned, first and foremost, with building up a highly professional officer corps, especially the part involved in operational and strategic command. This is one of the...

Role and place of forecasting and prevision in operation and combined-arms battle planning system.
July 1, 2007... Speaking at the scientific conference in the Academy of Military Science on January 24th 2004, the RF Government First Deputy Chairman S.B. Ivanov underlined that "the further development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the...

Creation and development of the combat training system in the Strategic Missile Forces, 1959-1965.
July 1, 2007... Combat training in the Armed Forces is one of the factors in ensuring the operational effectiveness and combat readiness of troops. Its constant upgrading is closely connected with the development of the level of technical equipment, changes in...

Evaluation of officers in Russia: historical aspect.
July 1, 2007... Undeservedly little attention was paid recently to the questions of evaluation of servicemen and, above all, of officer personnel, notwithstanding the fact that it is one of the most important elements required for the successful operation of...

Air weapons vs. air defense: armed conflicts in recent decades.
July 1, 2007... As is evident from the record of local wars and military conflicts in Korea, South East Asia and the Middle East, the states that unleashed them normally pursued combat operations while in possession of air force superiority. It was air...

China's military-economic strategy and its armed forces restructuring.
July 1, 2007... The military-economic strategy of the Chinese People's Republic (CPR) represents a set of theoretical views and practical measures for coordinated development of military and civil sectors of the country so as to promote appropriate economic...