Military Thought articles from May 2003

Military Thought archives from May 2003

Alert duty in the Strategic Missile Forces: organization and prospects for improvement.
May 1, 2003... The Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), being permanent combat-ready troops, even in peacetime are deployed in battle formation and are on continuous alert duty to perform combat missions of special state significance in defending our Motherland....

Apropos of preparation and buildup of mobilization manpower resources.
May 1, 2003... Improving the preparation and buildup of mobilization manpower resources in the Russian Federation is emerging as one of the crucial present-day problems in the state and defense organizational development. This is due to the specifics of...

Maritime activity and Russia's geo-economic revival.
May 1, 2003... In the view of the domestic intellectual and expert community, the revival of the Russian state, the maintenance of its national security, and the strengthening of its authority in interstate relations is predicated on the integration of the...

Tactics: the art of defense.
May 1, 2003... Interaction in Defense Success in a defensive operation is to a very large extent contingent on how thoroughly commander and headquarters staff are able to organize synchronization of activities and functions and interaction of forces and...

Intellectualization of weapons and weapons against human intelligence.
May 1, 2003... By now mankind has built up enormous weapons stockpiles that can kill life on Earth many times over. At the same time, under pressure from the international public, measures are being implemented to eliminate the most dangerous types of...

Ensuring a comprehensive pricing policy in the preparation and fulfillment of state defense orders.
May 1, 2003... In the conditions of a market economy, prices are an effective and one of the most complicated instruments in managing the process of development of arms and military equipment (AME). This instrument, as the record shows, requires skillful use....

Information-technology support of the educational process at higher military schools.
May 1, 2003... In today's conditions of modernization of Russian education, one of the most promising lines in upgrading the educational process at higher military schools is its informatization, whose purpose is to markedly raise the training standards of...

Spiritual foundations of military indoctrination.
May 1, 2003... Today Russia' spiritual space is littered to a considerable extent. The prestige of knowledge, science and culture is low. Philosophy and high art--just about everything that traditionally belongs to the high spheres of the spirit (1)--are...

Spiritual factor in future wars: how to shape it.
May 1, 2003... The character of an armed conflict and of warfare generally largely depends not only on logic of progress in military science, resolute military-political objectives, the military might of states but also on the spiritual factor which should be...

Operational concealment or deception of the enemy?
May 1, 2003... The existing formal documents containing regulations describe the set of measures to conceal forces and installations and mislead the enemy as operational (tactical) concealment. * This journal has already written that this term is incorrect....

Classification of weapons and military equipment: problems and solutions.
May 1, 2003... As a rule, it is a well-equipped army that wins the war. Military historians say as much from time out of mind; military theorists and soldiers taught and teach the same thing as well. But weapons that were used in the past and are used at...

On maritime domination.
May 1, 2003... An analysis of dictionary entries shows that "domination" means power, force and willpower applied to people, their activity and conduct as well as to material objects. From this it follows that maritime domination means power over...

Women and the army: recruitment problems.
May 1, 2003... The present stage in the development of the world community is connected with ever more intensive feminization, which is expressed in broader participation of women in various spheres of social life, including the military sphere. The presence...

Military operations on urbanized terrain.
May 1, 2003... The experience of local wars and large-scale counter-terrorist operations convinced commands of the armed forces of the United States and other NATO countries that warfare in urban conditions merits closer attention. They argue that...

On international aspects of the Kursk Salient Battle (60th anniversary).
May 1, 2003... For fifty days the Red Army and the best Hitler forces remained locked in one of the greatest battles that unfolded in the very heart of Russia. The German efforts to avenge the Stalingrad defeat in the course of the Operation Citadel launched...

The legendary Iron division is 85.
May 1, 2003... Its past is absolutely unique, rich and highly instructive; its victories in three wars have been already described in numerous books, collection of documents, and films. Everybody knows the name of this unit yet few people know how it got...

RF Armed Forces Rear Services: history and modernity.
May 1, 2003... The experience of past wars is among the factors with an active impact on progress in military affairs. A source of various aspects of military science and its most important component, military art, it is embodied in a better organization of...

Lessons from the war in Iraq.
May 1, 2003... Maj. Gen. G.A. BEREZKIN Doctor of Technical Sciences Deputy head of the RF Defense Ministry Center of Military-Technical Information Studies Military-Political Aspects The military operation by the U.S.-British coalition force...