Military Thought articles from September 2001

Military Thought archives from September 2001

Ground Forces and Military Reform.
September 1, 2001... For different reasons, reforms in the Ground Forces were until recently directed primarily at trimming down their composition and strength. Underestimation of the role and importance of the service, one of the principal in the Armed Forces, has...

Apropos of the grown role of confrontation in the aerospace sphere and Air Force tasks in 21st-century military operations.
September 1, 2001... The process of world transformations is considerably complicated at the present time due to a clearly expressed, progressing instability and an aggravation of the old and emergence of new interstate contradictions, some of which have led to...

Organizing communications in mountain combat operations.
September 1, 2001... Reliable command and control has always been one of the main factors helping to achieve victory in combat. Record of the Great Patriotic War and of the counter-terrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus has shown that command and control of...

Russia's military policy.
September 1, 2001... Military policy, or a policy pursued in the military area, is a necessary and important element of the general political activities aimed at providing for a state's national security, preventing wars and military conflicts, and strengthening...

Command and control of missile forces and artillery: Present and future.
September 1, 2001... Analysis of factors affecting the efficiency of command and control (C&C) of forces and the experience gained in exercises and combat operations in various conflicts have indicated that the existing structure, composition and equipment of C&C...

Upgrading topographic and geodetic support.
September 1, 2001... Reforming the military and upgrading military equipment and weapons impose new requirements on topographic and geodetic support (TGS). This type of operations (combat) support is organized and provided in order to timely communicate to the...

Distributing forces and fire in combat operations of large Air Force strategic formations.
September 1, 2001... It is difficult to optimize distribution of forces and fires of a large air force strategic formation under modern conditions of air warfare because of the random nature of many situation factors. We can include among such factors affecting the...

Teaching principles of moral-psychological support in higher schools.
September 1, 2001... The importance of the moral-psychological factor that has a direct influence on Russia's national security is growing in importance under conditions of the current military reform. This makes it necessary to look for effective methods to...

Reserve officers: An answer to the military's personnel problem?.
September 1, 2001... The article's authors continue the discussion of a problem raised by this journal. [1] They cite results of a survey involving more than 500 students who receive instruction at departments of military science of civilian higher schools and 460...

The rear services administration system: Development stages and prospects.
September 1, 2001... The military doctrine of the Russian Federation designates the establishment of an integrated administrative (control) system and its efficient operation as one of the main priorities in the development of the state's military organization. The...

Reform of sanitary-epidemiological inspection in the armed forces.
September 1, 2001... The reform unfolding in the RF Armed Forces provides, among other things, for changes in the military health control system. The Federal Law on the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare of the Population (1999) and RF Government Decree No. 554 of...

Regulation of the military economy: Problems and solutions.
September 1, 2001... In determining the tasks and methods of regulation of the military economy, one should bear in mind that this process, while coinciding in many of its elements with the administration of the national economy, has its own specifics. These are...

Military threats: A political study.
September 1, 2001... The end of bloc-to-bloc confrontation did not lead to renunciation of the use of military force in international relations. The 1990s saw a considerable number of local wars whose limited character, as can be seen in the Persian Gulf and...

New-generation weapons.
September 1, 2001... Armed conflicts of the 20th century, especially its second half, show that victory is achieved, as a rule, by the side that is on the cutting edge of military technology, taking into account the latest trends in the development of arms and...

Evolution of tactics in the great patriotic war.
September 1, 2001... Success in the development of the military art, in particular tactics, is impossible without taking into account the combat experience gained during the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. That war dramatically advanced offensive...

Multinational peacekeeping operations in the balkans: Past and present.
September 1, 2001... With the Cold War over, conflict prevention and conflict management took center stage for many states in the world. These tasks are the focus of attention by politicians, diplomats, pundits, and public organizations. Meanwhile, along with...