Military Thought articles from October 2006

Military Thought archives from October 2006

The Collective Security Treaty Organization: averting security threats in Central Asia.
October 1, 2006... In assessing the prospects for the development and consolidation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), it is necessary above all to analyze the organization's performance, results and achievements from the moment of its...

The Ground Forces: past and present.(Company overview)
October 1, 2006... The Ground Forces (GF) have played a major role at all stages of the development of our state, oftentimes a decisive role in attainting victory over the enemy and in defending national interests. But until this year, there has been no GF Day,...

The new strategy of the indirect approach.
October 1, 2006... The idea of conducting military actions through the indirect physical destruction (smashing) of the adversary, in a "roundabout" way, emerged at the dawn of the military art. The essence of "indirect action" was aptly summed up by Sun Tzi in...

On the correlation of operational concept and methods.
October 1, 2006... * Topicality of the present article is caused by two reasons. The first reason has a general character. Concept of an operation constitutes a basis for decision making, the main idea of the method of accomplishing an assigned combat mission by...

Armored vehicle armament: its role in modern combined-arms operations.
October 1, 2006... An analysis of the military-political situation in the world shows that there is a shift of emphasis under way in the confrontation between certain states. Some of them are drifting away from the policy of world wars toward local wars and armed...

Forms and methods of deployment of missile troops and artillery in combined-arms operations.
October 1, 2006... In spite of the positive changes in the world's military political situation, potential military threats to the national security of the Russian Federation cannot be excluded completely. This is due to the current and potential crisis areas of...

High-accuracy military engagement.
October 1, 2006... In the centuries-old history of armed struggle, there were a good few periods of transition from some methods and forms for its conduct to others. They did not emerge all at once and oftentimes they took place imperceptibly in response to a...

Tactical airborne operations in the modern offensive.
October 1, 2006... The analysis of the views of domestic and foreign specialists in warfare methods, as well as the experience of modern local wars and armed conflicts give evidence of the increasing role and importance of airborne descents in achieving...

The legal questions of military-technical policy.
October 1, 2006... The planning of state activities for support and development of the country's military technical potential and of its rational utilization in the interests of the national security of the state is carried out on the basis of military-technical...

Vertically integrated structures: a new basis of the Defense Industrial Complex.
October 1, 2006... At present when the initial stage of the political and economic transformation of our country has been completed it is time to undertake purposeful and responsible steps to provide long-term perspectives of the development of the state and...

Reduction of arms and military equipment signature: a problem and ways of solving it.
October 1, 2006... Experience of local wars and military conflicts of the last decade confirms the soundness of the modern tendency demonstrating rapid increase of the reconnaissance efficiency. It arises both from the process of complex conduct of reconnaissance...

The Air Defense system and evaluation of its efficiency.
October 1, 2006... The concept of "system" which originated within the strict framework of concepts of philosophy, methodology and special sciences has become common and widely used. It helps to form an opinion that "everything which is real and reasonable should...

Some ideas about improving reconnaissance in the interests of destruction of the enemy by Rocket Troops and Artillery.
October 1, 2006... The analysis of the character of the military conflicts of the last decades with the participation of the Armed Forces of the economically developed countries has demonstrated that armed struggle is transforming its traditional methods of...

On the protection of the tactical troop formations in combined-arms combat.
October 1, 2006... New conditions of warfare have considerably increased the requirements to the protection of the tactical troops formations (TTF) in modern combined arms combat. The articles published earlier (1) have discussed and analyzed two groups of the...

Urgent problems of rocket and artillery troops' personnel training.
October 1, 2006... One of the short-term priority objectives in Rocket and Artillery Troops construction and development is personnel occupational training system improvement. (1) This task is especially urgent and challenging for those who are directly involved...

On specifics of military property management.
October 1, 2006... With switching the economy of the state over to the market footing and with creating civil law relations, which are new for Russia, the solution of the package of questions related to the management of military property, as the special kind of...

How to learn to deceive the enemy.
October 1, 2006... From the earliest times, the ability to deceive the enemy, which enables to achieve surprise in combat and to outfight hostile preponderant forces, incurring minimal losses, has been regarded as the most important quality of military leaders...

Military-economic confrontation: its essence, basic trends and forms.
October 1, 2006... Editorial note: The author presents his own opinion on the problem dealing with interstate military-economic confrontation based on World War II experience. Some of his judgments may seem obscure or cause objections due to certain omissions and...

Army feminization: its essence, evolution and basic trends.
October 1, 2006... Feminization covers the entire organism of the society and--to one extent or another--is displayed in each of its structural elements. The armed forces, being a specific state institution, are not an exception here. In fact, women's military...

Why and how history is distorted.
October 1, 2006... Over the recent years there has been a considerable increase in military historical publications where plenty of military historical events are falsified and distorted and, according to the authors of these publications, "only the most...

Warsaw-Ivangorod operation of Russian troops (28 September-8 November 1914).
October 1, 2006... The Warsaw-Ivangorod (Deblin) operation of the Russian south-western front (SWF) and of part of the forces of the north-western front (NWF) is interesting first and foremost in the context of the art of operational foresight, teamwork and of...

A new book about Russia's navy.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A new book by Fleet Admiral Ivan Kapitanets, Strong Navy--Strong Russia, (1) is off the presses. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The author is one of the merited heads of the navy and a member of the brilliant postwar constellation of Soviet...

On the verge of the third world war.
October 1, 2006... A monograph that was published recently (1) is devoted to the most dramatic events of the so-called "cold war." A well-known American political scientist G.T. Allison, who is repeatedly quoted by the author, notes the following: "There hardly...

Problems of digitalizing military communication networks and ways of solving them.
October 1, 2006... At present significant part of military cable networks is built on the basis of dedicated (allocated to subscribers) analogue communication channels which are their own and leased from the United telecommunication network (UTN) of Russia. Own...

On the 75th anniversary of the Military Training Faculty of V.P. Goryachkin MSAU.(Vasily Prokhorovich Goryachkin, Moscow State Agroengineering University)
October 1, 2006... The history of reserve officer training at civil high schools originates from the times when Peter the Great was performing his reformatory activities. It was just Peter the Great who created both the regular army and the system of military...