Military Thought articles from March 2003

Military Thought archives from March 2003

Dealing with main issues of military theory and practice.
March 1, 2003... June 1, 2003, marked the 85th anniversary of publication of the first issue of the Military Thought, the military theoretical journal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and one of the oldest printed editions of the Armed...

Cooperation between Russia's Baltic Fleet and navies of the Baltic states.
March 1, 2003... The last 15 years have seen considerable geostrategic changes in the Baltic Sea region, brought about by, among other things, a strengthening of the NATO armed forces, including their naval component, and the loss of our allies in the Warsaw...

Strategic offensive capability: necessity and sufficiency.
March 1, 2003... The signing, on May 24, 2002, of the U.S.-Russian Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SOR Treaty) marked the completion of a complex and prolonged stage in the evolution of a new relationship between Russia and the United States in the...

Russia and NATO: principles of interrelations, prospects for cooperation.
March 1, 2003... It is difficult to disagree with the fact that today we are witnesses of and participants in an important, crucial stage in the evolution of Europe. Ditto for the fact that Russia--the largest European state--has always had, and will continue...

Integration processes in Asia and their impact on regional security *.
March 1, 2003... Emergence of the Regional "Centers of Power" Some of the students of contemporary East believe that it is the United States and Japan, the main "integrators" of Northeast Asia that "are winding the integration spiral around their own...

Information security of the Russian Federation.
March 1, 2003... One of the distinctive tendencies in today's world is for many countries of the international community to coordinate their efforts in trying to form a global information community. The information community can be defined as a community where...

Planning for organizational development of the navy.
March 1, 2003... Organizational development of the navy is an exceptionally difficult and large-scale problem, which can be solved only on the basis of scientific planning. Of particular importance in the current situation, where the State has very limited...

Ground Forces: organization and development prospects.
March 1, 2003... Analysis of the tasks of ensuring the state's military security, entrusted to the Armed Forces under the RF Military Doctrine, shows that the leading role in fulfilling most of them is assigned to the Ground Forces. Importantly, this concerns...

Fleets in future wars.
March 1, 2003... An analysis of the late 20th-century and early 21st-century military conflicts involving the United States and NATO shows high efficiency of long-range weapons integrated with data-controlled operational systems and capable of engaging enemy...

The navy and comprehensive fire engagement problems.
March 1, 2003... An analysis of wars and regional conflicts that happened in the last decade shows that engagement with fires has become the main element in a combat (battle, operation), which creates conditions for successful operations by combined-arms units....

Past and future wars: initial stages.
March 1, 2003... Several decades ago when the world was still bi-polar the military showed a lot of interest in the early stages of war. The command and control structures worked on corresponding theoretical principles while military publications widely...

A system to protect troops: problems of development.
March 1, 2003... The role of troop protection as a variety of action that in many respects determines the degree of realization of the potential capabilities of forces engaged in combat missions grows substantially as the armies of the leading world nations add...

Tactics as an art of offensive.
March 1, 2003... Surprise Offensive At all times and in all wars surprise has been and remains an ally of sorts, a tramp card of the side on an offensive. Not infrequently it helped skilful commanders compensate for inadequate forces and assets and to rout...

The art of defense.
March 1, 2003... Over the past decade, the defensive character of the RF Military Doctrine put defense in the domestic military art to the foreground. Operationally, however, defense cannot prevail over the offense. World history does not know of a single war...

New military transport aviation for Russia.
March 1, 2003... Military transport aircraft of Russia's Air Force and other agencies include at the present time strategic (heavy lifter long-range) military transport aircraft (military transports) An-22, An-124 (in the Air Force only); operational-strategic...

Sufficiency of forces and assets for safeguarding the country's military security.
March 1, 2003... The military doctrine of the Russian Federation defines sufficiency of forces and assets for safeguarding the military security and their rational employment as one of the basic government principles. The question of sufficiency of the Armed...

Appraising serviceability and safety of weapon systems and military equipment.
March 1, 2003... Appraising serviceability and safety of complex systems (objects) of weapons and military equipment (WME) is often based on the so-called principle of complete distinguishability of conditions, in accordance with which every condition of the...

Target search at sea: grappling with uncertainty.
March 1, 2003... In military affairs, we often have to make decisions in conditions of uncertainty when the available situation, enemy and friendly force data are incomplete or unreliable. One of the solutions is numerical prediction of the effectiveness of...

Mathematical models of radar troops combat employment for commanding officers and staffs.
March 1, 2003... Decision-making and planning of combat employment are important phases in the activities of commanding officers and staffs who determine readiness of their radar troops units for the performance of combat missions. They are supposed to do that...

Estimating Russia's defensive security.
March 1, 2003... One of the most important components of the system of Russia's national security seems to be defensive security that characterizes the sufficiency of the country's military and economic potentials to repulse threats to its security. Defensive...

Will Russia have aircraft carriers?
March 1, 2003... Coordination is one of the most important factors of success in any operation conducted by the Armed Forces or some or other service. Lack of coordination between forces and assets participating in an operation will lead to the collapse of its...

How to upgrade the system of performance of military service by officers.
March 1, 2003... Historical experience shows that reforming the military organization of the state calls for making serious amendments to the system of performance of military service by officers. This problem, for instance, was especially challenging in the...

Preempting the adversary in an operation (combat).
March 1, 2003... In a combined-arms operation (combat), the forces of each of the warring sides will seek to achieve their final goal, to wit, to successfully accomplish their respective missions. More likely than not the success will fall to someone, who...

Information warfare and camouflage, concealment and deception.
March 1, 2003... In the last decade, a number of advanced world countries have increasingly focused on creating effective assets and methods of information warfare, which enjoys a steadily growing role in efforts to gain success in the course of military...

Certain typical features of future wars.
March 1, 2003... The last decade of the 20th century saw more than 150 large-scale armed conflicts and wars; there is no hope that the 21st century will be more peaceful. The world is brimming with all sorts of social, political, economic, ethnic, and religious...

Armed Forces of the future.
March 1, 2003... The Russian and foreign press was publishing at the turn of the 20th century rather mixed judgments about the makeup of the militaries of industrial nations in predictable types of warfare. (1) In our opinion, this is attributable not only and...

Widening the scope of the "Pskov experiment".
March 1, 2003... One of the important problems being discussed of late in Military Thought and other military media outlets is manpower acquisition for the RF Armed Forces. (1) The "Pskov experiment" was supposed to switch the 76th Airborne Force Division...

Organizational development of Armed Forces of leading foreign countries.
March 1, 2003... The turn of the century provided definite prerequisites for the leading foreign States to adjust vectors in the organizational development and introduction of new forms and methods of employment of their armed forces. At the same time, one...

Astronautics: the military-political aspect.
March 1, 2003... The launch of the first earth orbiting satellite (Sputnik), on October 4, 1957 began the practical exploration of the boundless expanse of the Universe. It was Russia that laid the theoretical and philosophical foundations of space activity,...

Marshal L.A. Govorov, the country's first commander in chief of Air Defense Forces.
March 1, 2003... Fifty years ago, a new branch of service was organized--the Air Defense Forces (PVO). Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, a major military figure, one of the prominent military leaders of the Great Patriotic War of...