Military Thought articles from March 2002

Military Thought archives from March 2002

Streamlining strategic command and control of the RF Armed Forces.
March 1, 2002... Upgrading command and control of the Armed Forces has always been a high priority. The ongoing deep changes in the international and internal situation and in the state building strategy make it an especially pressing need. Ongoing...

Missile forces and artillery: reforming problems.
March 1, 2002... Today, the role of modern weapon systems in armed conflicts has increased considerably. This has to do with intensive development of precision weapons and the change in views on the place and role of effective engagement in the general system...

The principles of combat as the theoretical backbone of the art of tactics.
March 1, 2002... On June 22, 2002 Major-General IVAN VOROBYOV, Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor, Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Academy of Military Sciences and the International Informatization Academy, and our author for...

Maj. Gen. I.N. Vorobyov (Ret.).
March 1, 2002... Doctor of Military Sciences, Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation While marking the large amount of work that went into the drafting of the Field Manual, one would like to offer some suggestions as to how to improve it. In the first...

Col. V.A. Kiselyov.
March 1, 2002... Doctor of Military Sciences The fundamental distinction between the draft Field Manual under discussion and the Field Manual now in effect is in the former having a new chapter, "Actions for Putting Armed Conflicts Under Control and...

Chapter eight: actions for controlling and terminating armed conflicts.
March 1, 2002... General Provisions 488. In the course of an armed conflict, battalion may be used as an element of a combined unit, unit, reinforce armed units of other ministries and agencies, as well as operate independently. Company, as a rule,...

Informatization of higher military educational institutions: problem and solutions.
March 1, 2002... The present stage of informatization [widespread use of computer technology] encompasses practically all aspects of society's activities, including education. One of the key factors of education, military education in particular, is the extent...

Information-and-method coordination of military operations models.
March 1, 2002... One of the main tools of logical analysis possessing a considerable intellectual content and more or less fully reflecting the military subject area are mathematical models of military operations of different scales. Repeated modeling of...

Modernization of the military-scientific complex.
March 1, 2002... The need to streamline the military-scientific complex and enhance the effectiveness of the entire scientific research system is necessitated by the military-political situation prevailing in the world as well as the changes in the character...

Quality of the State Arms Program: problems and solutions.
March 1, 2002... One of the most complex problems in elaborating the State Arms Program (SAP) is ensuring its high quality standard. Quality in this case is understood as both the effectiveness of the weapons system itself (that is to say, the extent to which...

Training of naval officers based on professional military traditions.
March 1, 2002... The current practice of officer training and education shows that educational work tends to be more effective where those in charge of the military education process rely on traditions, using them in the interests of military service. An...

Motivating military university NCO's.
March 1, 2002... What makes some cadets at military educational establishments perform NCO duties during the entire five-year course of studies? What impels sergeants of student subunits to be responsible not only for themselves but also for their mates, to...

Military rail transport under modern conditions.
March 1, 2002... Transportation assets are the most important constituent part of Russia's production infrastructure. Their stable and efficient operation is a prerequisite for stabilizing, expanding and restructuring the economy and the country's defense...

Navy rear services: problems of reforming.
March 1, 2002... Throughout the history of the Russian Navy before the revolution and for some time in Soviet times, naval rear services were in charge of military ports. * The term rear service was adopted in the Navy shortly before the Great Patriotic War of...

Civil society and the army.
March 1, 2002... Dear readers! This starts a new section in our journal of a very special character. (1) The Editors plan to publish discussion materials on topical legal problems in the sphere of military development and offer methods of their settlement. We...

International law and national legislation in the military field.
March 1, 2002... Russia's active involvement in international relations based on mutually advantageous cooperation and on consistent efforts to shape a general and comprehensive system of international security and to overcome the global military confrontation...

On cold and hot wars.
March 1, 2002... Today, the term "war" is more frequently used than before and has acquired a wider meaning. Here I have in mind not only the word combinations such as "economic war," "financial war," "technological war," "information war" much liked by the...

Military logic and theory.
March 1, 2002... Military scientific knowledge today is developing at a mounting pace. This process is expedited by the aspiration of scientists and politicians alike to study the experience of the numerous wars and armed conflicts in the 20th century. At the...

"Balance of forces" category in potential military conflicts.
March 1, 2002... The category of "balance of forces" was and remains to be most important in military art theory. The appraisal of balance of forces in an operation (a combat) serves to forecast the course and outcome of military (combat) operations under...

What is the essence of military discipline?
March 1, 2002... Military discipline is a special form of military relations. Its specifics lie in coordinating the conduct and actions of military personnel and in serving to establish such relations as are required for successful joint activity. The conduct...

On the conception of "jointness" of armed forces.
March 1, 2002... Military development in the West, and the United States in the first place, was greatly affected by the end of the Cold War that also radically changed international relations and created a new context for the security system. First,...

Military operations other than war: (The U.S. View).
March 1, 2002... The end of the Cold War brought about a drastic change in the sphere of international security. The United States and its allies as well as Russia implemented large-scale reductions of conventional and strategic weapons, downsizing their armed...

Evolution of forms and methods of struggle for air supremacy.
March 1, 2002... It is expedient to take the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 as a starting point in a historical analysis of the struggle for air supremacy. Up to July 1943, it was the German aviation that had the strategic edge on the Soviet-German front....