Military Thought articles from October 2005

Military Thought archives from October 2005

Military power: the nature, structure, problems.
October 1, 2005... The problem of military power has at all times been the focus of attention by the public and scientific and military circles in any country of the world. It is highly encouraging that modern Russia also gives it the attention it deserves....

Russia-NATO strategic partnership: problems, prospects.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
October 1, 2005... Contacts and cooperation between Russia and NATO began to develop in the early 1990s. To make a comprehensive, all-round analysis of the current situation and the difficulties that had to be dealt with along this path, it is important to view...

Central scientific research institute No. 24 of the Russian Defense Ministry: evolution, development.
October 1, 2005... The country's postwar economic reconstruction and development of all spheres, including the military sphere, required the introduction of the latest scientific and technological achievements, above all in the sphere of control and management....

The combat employment of missile forces and artillery in difficult terrain conditions.
October 1, 2005... The effectiveness of the combat employment of troops (forces) is to a very large degree predicated on the physico geographic (terrain) conditions in the area of combat operations. These conditions are a major prerequisite to an objective...

The naval EW system: structure, lines of development.(electronic warfare)
October 1, 2005... Electronic warfare (EW), being a major component of operational (combat) support, is organized and conduced in the interest of enhancing the Navy's effectiveness in operations (combat actions) and maintaining its ability to stand up in combat....

Internal armed conflicts: improving JGF organization.(Joint Group of Forces)
October 1, 2005... The ongoing counter terrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus and the shortfalls in the employment of mixed interagency armed formations, as well as the possibility of internal armed conflicts breaking out in other parts of Russia...

The concept of mobile forces.
October 1, 2005... The term "mobile forces" began to be used in the 1960s-1970s as armies began to be supplied with helicopters on a wide scale. During the War in Vietnam, a new form of warfare evolved--air-mobile operations. Meanwhile, the mobility of combined...

Modes and forms of EW resources combat employment.(electronic warfare)
October 1, 2005... The modes and forms of combat employment of EW resources are known to be the most important element of the fundamentals of theory of any combat arm and special forces, but from the point of view of military science of science, they are also...

Methodological aspect of validating performance requirements for EW equipment.(electronic warfare)
October 1, 2005... The present stage in the development of the armed forces of the leading foreign countries is characterized by a sharp increase in the role of the electronic component of weapons connected first of all with the wide use of latest advances in...

Greater accessibility of GLONASS via integration of satellite equipment and standalone navigation assets.(Russian Global Navigation Satellite System)
October 1, 2005... The high technical and operational characteristics of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) that have been in evidence for 20 years, have turned satellite navigation equipment of its users into an inalienable component of the...

Spearheading R & D on electronic warfare.
October 1, 2005... By the early 1960s, armies of the advanced states developed high rates of conversion to qualitatively new weapon systems. Their combat characteristics were based on numerous electronic facilities (EF) of different designation. In a reaction,...

EW weapon system: main development trends.(electronic warfare)
October 1, 2005... Changes in the military-political situation, as well as the character and content of tasks facing the RF AF determine the necessity of elaborating scientific approaches to the identification of priorities in the military organizational...

The role of FSRTC EW EESR of RF MOD in dealing with electronic protection problems.(electronic warfare)
October 1, 2005... Electronic protection (EP) of military electronic assets (EA) is a problem that has been intensively studied since the mid-1950s. Initially the relevant investigations were concentrated in research organizations of the Armed Forces services and...

Testing EW equipment: questions of organization.(electronic warfare)
October 1, 2005... Testing is a crucial element in the development of modern weapons, military and special equipment (WMSE). One of the main requirements imposed on testing is cutting on testing time and cost of all its components specified in technical standards...

Employment of command and control information technology in the Navy.
October 1, 2005... The state of automated command and control technology in the Navy today is characterized by a highly diverse employment of modern information technology (basic, functional, communication IT) based on the use of computer assisted communication...

Functional approach to estimation of relative strategic force ratio of opposing forces.
October 1, 2005... The conventional approach to estimating relative ratios of military force of opposing forces consists in comparing their combat potentials (the material component of combat power) and forming on this basis some judgement about the degree of...

Automating control of antitank elements.
October 1, 2005... Experience gained in the wars of the 20th century and the early 21st century shows that military force and constant readiness to use it remain the definitive factors of the foreign policy of leading foreign states. Despite the fact that the air...

Planning target-specific development of the Navy: employment, current problems, lines of improvement.
October 1, 2005... The history of the employment of the target specific method in planning the Navy's organizational force development goes back to the mid-1960s when the country's political leadership and its Defense Ministry adopted the procedure for planning...

Disrupting enemy information reception and transmission systems: methodological aspect.
October 1, 2005... The pressing need for upgrading and practical implementation of the set of methods used in planning disruption of the advanced hostile information reception and transmission system (IRTS) is called for by the qualitative changes in this system...

The army and the church: collaboration experience.
October 1, 2005... Within the framework of the 13th International Christmas Educational Readings that took place in Moscow from 24 to 30 January 2005, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, members of the clergy cooperating...

Relationship between military discipline and self-discipline.
October 1, 2005... In order to chart the correct ways of strengthening military discipline, it is necessary to establish how it manifests itself in real life, and this means we have to reveal the dialectics of the relationship between military distsiplina...

Combination of air and strategic sectors: advantages and disadvantages, possible consequences.
October 1, 2005... Starting 1999, in the system of conventional division of geostrategic space (GSS), the borders of air sectors (AS) came to match those of strategic sectors (SS). The present writer holds a strongly negative attitude to this fact. He is ready to...

More about some aspects of officers' self-improvement.
October 1, 2005... In an article entitled "Military-Professional Self-Development of Officers," (1) V.P. Masyagin focused his attention on the content and structure of this topic, emphasizing the importance of the student's self-consciousness. The author of that...

Military science and military systemology.
October 1, 2005... Currently it becomes increasingly obvious that we should look for fundamentally new approaches to the understanding of problems of national, regional and global security. We should also rethink the role and capacities of military force in...

Military-technical and information-program support in training operators of unmanned aerial vehicles.
October 1, 2005... The notions of the place, role and missions performed by unmanned aircraft in modern combat operations have appreciably changed over recent 10 to 15 years. Analysis of numerous mass media publications on military-technical and other matters...

The specifics of modern armed conflicts.
October 1, 2005... Many crisis situations in the modern world, unfortunately, continue to be resolved through the use of military force, in the course of armed conflicts, oftentimes with the involvement of well trained and equipped military formations of...

Certain matters pertaining to the Republic of Belarus' military security in the air.
October 1, 2005... The present-day world is characterized by contradictions--economic, political, ethnic, territorial and other--existing between many countries. These are often resolved by military force which has become a lever of pressure in the hands of the...

Development of the WPRA's rear services support shortly before the Great Patriotic War.
October 1, 2005... Changes that occurred in the USSR in the 1930s in the area of theory and practice of military organizational development (an increase in the WPRA strength, a rise in its level of equipment, a transition from the mixed (territorial-militia) to...

Soviet naval radio communications intelligence in the period of the Civil War and military intervention in Russia (1917-1922): practical importance of past lessons.
October 1, 2005... Naval activities connected with the defense of and support for the Russian Federation's national interests and security fall in the category of top-level state interests. Military security goals are achieved through a set of measures, including...

Lessons of the Great Patriotic War: combating subversion and terrorism in operations and engagements.
October 1, 2005... Our country marked 60 years of the Great Victory not long ago. While we appreciate the heroic deed of our people, defenders of the Fatherland, we involuntarily ask ourselves: Have we learned due lessons of the great war, are we...

Engineer support of the defensive battle of Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk.
October 1, 2005... The Battle of Kursk is the central event of the summer-autumn campaign of 1943. As a result of the historic victories of the Soviet armed forces in the Battle of Stalingrad and in the winter offensive of 1942/43, strategic initiative went over...