Military Thought articles from March 2001

Military Thought archives from March 2001

Heavy Artillery: Notes on the Evolution.
March 1, 2001... For centuries, ever since its inception, artillery has been the core of the firepower of any army and navy. Today, at the beginning of the 21st century, the numerous local and regional armed conflicts provide further evidence to artillery's...

Principles and Stages of Program Target-Specific Budget Planning in the RF Defense Ministry.
March 1, 2001... The absence of a comprehensive planning system linking together into a single whole the various long-range, medium-range and current plans for the development of the Armed Forces in terms of objectives, resources, time periods and financial...

Special Operations Forces and Engaging Them.
March 1, 2001... The period between the late 20th and early 21st centuries is marked by a transition to wars where the decisive role belongs to high-precision conventional and nontraditional weapons (including nonlethal weapons) based on new physical principles...

New Approach in the Development of Tactics.
March 1, 2001... One of the motives for writing this article was Prof. N.P. Moiseenko's criticism appearing in Military Thought. In particular, his article entitled "Should Tactics Be Confined to Combat Action?" claims that there have been no radical changes in...

Methods of Taking Cities and How to Use Them.
March 1, 2001... Fighting for cities--political, economic, administrative, scientific and cultural centers with developed transport networks and big reserves of supplies- has always been of great importance for the belligerents and was waged with exceptional...

Peacekeeping Operation: Engineering Support.
March 1, 2001... A characteristic feature of peacekeeping operations is that multinational UN forces do not take part in combat operations, performing as they do the role of a neutral observer. Nevertheless, servicemen constantly face risk to their lives, in...

Military Science and Russia's Security.
March 1, 2001... A characteristic feature of science as a whole and military science in particular at the present stage is an extremely fast acceleration of its development accompanied by changes in the content and structure of scientific knowledge. Both old...

Towards Military-Technical Policy in the Area of Strategic Armaments.
March 1, 2001... A specific feature of efforts to put together a state military-technical policy in the present conditions consists in a considerable vagueness of the main factors impacting on the system of views regarding prospects for the development of...

Problem of Retention of Radio Frequency Resource for Military Communication Systems.
March 1, 2001... Successful performance of combat assignments by forces in the course of armed conflicts is impossible unless they use modern systems of military communication, which are the material basis of command and control. They should rationally combine...

Can Civilian Higher Educational Institutions Train Military Officers?
March 1, 2001... The military leadership of the country is currently studying the question of having the greater period of training military officers transferred to civilian higher educational institutions. Various options for training future officers are being...

Military and Civilian-Environment Military Training.
March 1, 2001... Modern weapon systems have reached a level in their evolution enabling personnel of warring sides to operate in a standoff mode, without coming into direct physical contact. Therefore, a person engaged in warfare turns from a soldier in the...

Russia's National Security in the Early 21st Century.
March 1, 2001... The authors offer their vision of certain problems of Russia's national security and share with the reader their original approaches to possible military and political developments. They are convinced that what the military doctrine of Russia...

Military Education and Military Science.
March 1, 2001... The question about pathways for development of modern military science, raised in this journal, [1] is extremely important. Among the reasons of "the crisis in the development and functioning of military science," S.A. Tyushkevich cites...

Re: "Innovations" in Tactics.
March 1, 2001... The adoption of a new military doctrine has provoked a lively discussion in the academic community on prospects for evolution of the military art, including combined-arms unit tactics. There is a large number of objective proposals. But...

Defense: Evolution of Views.
March 1, 2001... Analysis of military history shows that such a critical form of combat action as the defense was often underestimated with the result that armies were ill-prepared for it. Combat practice has on many occasions shown the erroneousness of views...