Military Thought articles from October 2004

Military Thought archives from October 2004

Force development and state innovation policy in Russia.(armed forces)
October 1, 2004... Formulated by the RF President, modernization of the state military organization is a crucial task that logically goes in tandem with other problems, particularly the doubling of the GDP on the basis of development of high technology industries...

Recruiting enlistees for military service: main trends in military-information work.
October 1, 2004... The transition to recruitment of enlistees to serve as soldiers (sailors) and sergeants (petty officers) within the framework of an appropriate Federal Targeted Program (hereinafter, Program), scheduled for 2004-2007, is a priority in military...

Streamlining the organization of operational combat support.
October 1, 2004... The evolution and development of instruments and methods of warfare is accompanied by changes in all-round operational support. It plays a growing role in the successful performance of combat missions as new types of combat support are...

Characteristic traits of warfare in wars and armed conflicts in the last decade.
October 1, 2004... A deep insight in processes of military and public governance is only achieved by thorough knowledge of the essence of modern wars, the reasons why they break out, and the characteristic traits and peculiarities inherent in them. Defining...

Decision-making in a defensive operation.
October 1, 2004... In ordinary life, art is understood as principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning; the craft or trade using these principles or methods; skill in conducting any human activity. This is possible only when skill, knowledge,...

The initial period of war: past and present.
October 1, 2004... The history of wars and the military art shows that any war, under the impact of an array of sociopolitical and historical conditions, has its own distinct character. A combination of various political, economic, military, geographic, and other...

Information support of arms and equipment in the military.
October 1, 2004... Greater efficiency of state control over the development, supply, servicing, maintenance and salvaging of weapons and military equipment (WME) and logistic support of land and naval forces is of growing importance under today's economic...

Developing Missile Forces & Artillery munition stock lists.
October 1, 2004... A necessary condition for attaining the goals of operations (engagements) by combined-arms force elements is the capability of Missile Forces & Artillery (MF & A) weapons to effectively engage various installations and facilities of enemy force...

Building an automated command and control system for Missile Forces and Artillery.
October 1, 2004... A major technological breakthrough that has occurred in the development of arms and military equipment in the world's advanced countries set the stage for a drastic change in the forms and methods of warfare as well as for a review of the role,...

Creation of a common information space for the Air Force.
October 1, 2004... The effectiveness of the employment of weapon systems in modern armed conflicts is to a very large extent contingent on the quality of information support of command and control elements, based on modern information technology (IT). At the...

Upgrading automated communications control systems.
October 1, 2004... Today's communications system of the RF Armed Forces and its subsystems (the controlled communications net--CCN--and the communications control system) are deployed on RF land and sea areas and above them, in the air and outer space. ...

Building a single information space of RF Armed Forces: main aspects.(Russian Federation )
October 1, 2004... Effective functioning of the command and control system of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under modern conditions can be achieved only through a broad-scale introduction of information technologies in day-to-day activities of...

Estimating effectiveness of fortifying defensive positions.
October 1, 2004... Field fortification is the most cumbersome part of all engineer support of combat requiring strenuous and long work of the personnel of all armed services. The question naturally suggests itself: how efficient are their efforts? To get a...

On the system of command and control security indicators.
October 1, 2004... Modern operations are remarkable for their mobility and extensive use of electronic equipment for C & C and weapon guidance systems. The high mobility results in a situation where various types of radio communications become the main means of...

Military history in contemporary Russia.
October 1, 2004... History as a field of knowledge originally evolved as military history. Not surprisingly, Herodotus, the "father of history," opened his work with the following statement: Herodotus from Halicarnassus collected and recorded these facts lest the...

Selecting criteria for appraising the effectiveness of the tactical echelon control system.
October 1, 2004... Modern combined-arms combat is dynamic and highly fluid for which reason successful performance of combat missions largely depends on operational efficiency, stability and continuity of control of subunits and units. There is an imperative...

Air defense effectiveness indicator in offensive operation.
October 1, 2004... Experience gained in armed conflicts of recent years involving armed forces of the United States and NATO has shown the grown role of the air component in war. Therefore, reliable and effective air defense of troops is becoming one of the key...

Evaluating effectiveness of Air Force ACCS.(automated command and control systems)
October 1, 2004... Automated command and control systems (ACCS) and weapons control systems may have different constructions. To be able to compare different versions of a prospective system, its subsystems and elements, and then to make a well-grounded choice of...

Improvements in methods employed by control agencies of Air Force large strategic formations while preparing operations (combat operations).
October 1, 2004... One of the most important tasks facing military science is to improve methods used by command and control agencies of large strategic formations while they prepare operations (combat operations). New information technologies open basically new...

Air search and rescue specialists: professional training specifics.
October 1, 2004... The psychological factor in aircraft accidents and other extreme situations and the specific activities of aerospace search and rescue specialists performing high-risk missions single out the problem of their professional training into a...

Fostering creativity in military college students.
October 1, 2004... The problem of professional activism of the officer corps is taking on a special importance today: There must not be "sluggish" officers in the modern armed forces. As a matter of fact, the concept of activism has throughout the history of...

Military commander's authority as a social phenomenon.
October 1, 2004... Military leaders play an exceptionally important role in the activities of troops (forces). The effectiveness of fulfilling their duties placed on them by the government depends to a large extent on the level of their authority [the word in...

How to devise occupation-oriented training techniques.
October 1, 2004... One of the promising trends in upgrading teaching in higher military schools is to use modern occupation-oriented training techniques (TT). (a) Learning the basics of devising (b) such techniques, the military teacher acquires new...

Avenues for reforming RF MoD test complex.(Russian Federation Ministry of Defense)
October 1, 2004... The creation of modern models of weapons, military and special equipment (WMSE) is inseparable from their experimental validation and testing because, owing to the exceptional complexity of their operation and a great number of interacting...

Shaping military ideology.
October 1, 2004... At the turn of the 21st century the military philosophical thought tends to focus increasingly on qualitative and structural shifts in military ideology in general and its newly coined Russian version in particular. There are numerous reasons...

A social approach to reforming the military service in a democratic environment.
October 1, 2004... Reforming the military service is one of the principal components of the military reform that has been in progress in the Russian Federation since the start of the 1990s. At its early stage the military reform lacked system and failed to take...

On the notion of "war".
October 1, 2004... There are increasingly numerous attempts to expand the notion of "war:" a war may be in the form of non-armed violence; (1) it is distinguished, not by the form of violence but by the uncompromising nature of struggle, a victory for one party...

Military science: laws and research methods.
October 1, 2004... The fundamental objective of any science both in the past and at the current stage of the evolution of military thought is to study in depth the essence of processes under investigation and to ascertain the laws of their organization,...

On the theory of military organization.
October 1, 2004... The structure of military science at the modern stage is seen as consisting of the general foundations (general theory) of military science, theory of military art, theory of military organizational development, theory of military education and...

Revisiting the issue of defense sufficiency.
October 1, 2004... The need to revisit this subject was caused by an article by N.A. Liakhov and E.N. Akhmerov, titled "Military Security 'Threshholds'", (1) which is critical of the approach that we proposed for assessing the sufficiency of the RF Armed Forces...

Developing operational thinking as a high priority for military officers.
October 1, 2004... The past few years have been seeing a catastrophic exodus of first-rate specialists from command and control agencies on the operational and strategic level of the RF Armed Forces. Meanwhile, it takes at least 20 to 25 years to train a military...

Fear and military service.
October 1, 2004... The specific nature of the tasks connected with armed struggle and their high social significance make special demands on the entire range of qualities of career officers regardless of post and arm of the service. The training of future...

NATO's Istanbul Summit and problems of the Russia-NATO Council.
October 1, 2004... At the Istanbul Summit of the NATO alliance, which ended on 29 June 2004, the leaders of 26 NATO countries considered matters of coordinating policies on Iraq, summed up the interim results of NATO's enlargement, outlined decisions on a buildup...

A new look at the structure of military science.
October 1, 2004... The second issue of Military Thought for 2004 carried an article by Lieutenant General S.A. Bogdanov, D.Sc. (Mil.), arguing the need for "a review and official endorsement of the structure of military science at the present stage." (1) The...

Evolution of national defense awareness*.
October 1, 2004... One essential component of military training provided for young people in the 1961-1991 period was preparation of military specialists through the system of the Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army, Aviation, and Navy (DOSAAF),...

Theory of deterrence: potentials of conceptual models.
October 1, 2004... Scientific methods used in finding regularities in the behavior of sides involved in military conflicts are based on carrying out studies, on different levels of abstraction, depending on the objectives of these studies. The first among them is...