Military Thought articles from July 2008

Military Thought archives from July 2008

Determination of levels of unacceptable damage to state economic system: a methodological approach.
July 1, 2008... The notion of "unacceptable damage to state economic system" concentrates the essence of both nuclear containment and nuclear strategy as a whole. Different quantitative indicators that formalize this notion form the basis for nuclear...

About the evolution of the modern American "information operations" doctrine.
July 1, 2008... Being based on the wide experience of US Armed Forces' involvement in the local conflicts of the last decade, the Pentagon has taken a number of measures to update the doctrine of the so-called "information operations." (1) According to the...

Russia's Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea: results and prospects of development.
July 1, 2008... Eleven years ago, on May 28, 1997, the Russian Federation and Ukraine signed a package of framework agreements on the Black Sea Fleet (1) which symbolized ultimate settlement of the most serious disputes on the given problem by the two states,...

"Time" and "space" as strategic categories of contemporary wars.
July 1, 2008... The objective categories of "time" and "space" are of special strategic importance. The former determines the key elements of any war: beginning, duration, time required to bring the armed forces to the highest degree of combat readiness, time...

The combat capabilities of a tactical group of forces.
July 1, 2008... Based on various interpretations of the law with respect to changes in the structure of warfare (which posits the existence of a target specific and irreversible process where this structure is augmented with consecutively created elements,...

Means for personnel WMD protection.(weapons of mass destruction)
July 1, 2008... The analysis of main directions of improvement of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in different countries of the world (1) shows that nowadays, in the armies of leading foreign states, intensive activities are in progress to raise the...

Development prospects of the infantry flame throwers as an integral part of the servicemen individual battle kit.
July 1, 2008... Under modern conditions of highly probable unleashing of armed conflicts and local wars with potential employment of unconventional forms and methods of warfare, the armed forces will achieve success, as a rule, conducting autonomous combat...

Units of nuclear, biological and chemical defense troops of RF Armed Forces in handling emergency situations at chemically hazardous sites.
July 1, 2008... The provision of the protection of population and territories against emergency situations (ES) of natural and technogenic character constitutes one of the most important prerequisites for consolidating the national sovereignty of Russia. ...

Apropos of expedient structure of air defense theory for naval operational-strategic formations.
July 1, 2008... The current state and development prospects of the enemy's submarine-, ship- and aircraft-based air weapons (AW) that are used in naval warfare make successful operation of naval task forces in maritime zones and oceanic areas increasingly...

Military science at the present stage.
July 1, 2008... In recent years the journal Voennaya mysl' (Military Thought) published a number of articles devoted to problems of military science. One cannot but note the conclusion suggested by Prof. Maj. Gen. S.A. Tyushkevich: "The state of our military...

Evolution of principles of military art.
July 1, 2008... New types and forms of military confrontation distinctly manifesting themselves in the course of local wars and armed conflicts of the past decades insistently demand appealing to fundamentals of military theory--strategy principles,...

On evaluation of air operation effectiveness.
July 1, 2008... Effectiveness evaluation presents itself as the necessary task, which should be resolved at all the main stages of preparation and in the course of the air operation (after each important element or phase). The results of this evaluation form...

Logic-methodological aspects of air defense theory of naval operational-strategic formations.
July 1, 2008... The logic of scientific cognition is the philosophical category, which contemplates applying the scholarly apparatus of modern logic and methods to scientific knowledge, including such a demesne of knowledge as the air defense of naval...

R&D in military-technical cooperation.
July 1, 2008... The identification expertise of the products offered for import or export from Russia with regard to their attribution (non-attribution) to products intended for military purposes (hereinafter "defensive products") (1) represents a key stage in...

Legal protection of secret inventions and related problems.
July 1, 2008... The system of legal protection of secret inventions that had existed in our country prior to 1992 was restored in January 2004. As a result of that, we have received a full-fledged legal mechanism capable of protecting the rights of the people...

Information support as a major component of military command and control operations.
July 1, 2008... New information technology and the globalization of IT open great new opportunities in various realms of human activity. It is becoming increasingly obvious that social progress and the development of each concrete individual is accompanied,...

Information support as a method of realizing state information policy in the defense area.
July 1, 2008... The Russian Federation's sociopolitical changes and economic reforms show convincingly that actually information is emerging as one of the main resources of social development, while the scale of its use is comparable with that of the...

Surface ships' navigational complexes with use of artificial intelligence elements.
July 1, 2008... The area of research, named artificial intelligence, emerged and develops in parallel with the evolvement of automatic control theory beginning approximately from the 1950s with major applications at first in computer engineering and...

"Form of military (combat) actions": on the meaning of the category.
July 1, 2008... The Journal of Voyennaya mysl (Military Thought) systematically gives attention to such important categories of military art as forms and modes of military (combat) actions. In so doing, the authors, as a rule, make reference to dictionary and...

The problem of political socialization of military men revisited.
July 1, 2008... In contemporary political science literature, the term "political socialization" is understood to mean either the process of transmission of political views, values, norms from generation to generation or the process of political maturation of...

The concept of electronic warfare.
July 1, 2008... The broad introduction of electronic technology into weapon systems and military equipment, the globalization of information command and control systems, and comprehensive computerization have brought about modern information warfare (including...