Military Thought back issues from January 2007:
Russian Federation military policy in the area of international information security: regional aspect.
Jan 01, 2007 ... According to estimates by NATO experts, the most advanced world countries will be capable, as early as 2007-2010, of waging full-scale wars in the information sphere. Their main objectives will be to disorganize (disrupt) the functioning of the key enemy military, industrial and ...
Mobilization of manpower resources: economic feasibility study.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The current stage of development of the Russian Federation Armed Forces is generally characterized, on the one hand, by unaccomplished quantitative and qualitative domestic transformations and the necessity to continue the reforms; and on the other hand, by constrained economic resources ...
The promise of defense.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Certain publication in recent years claimed that under the present-day conditions defense was no longer able to withstand the striking might of advancing forces. (1) This article purports to investigate how legitimate these assertions are and what promise generally defense as a type of ...
New methodology of effective engagement planning in combat operations.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The general changes that have occurred over the past decade in the theory and practice of warfare have necessitated the need to update the existing (and develop new) methodology for planning effective engagement of an adversary in a combat operation. It is predetermined by the following ...
Defense-industrial complex: state, problems, prospects.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The important thing during institutional reforms in the defense-industrial complex is to take into consideration the overall state of affairs as well as the key problems and tendencies towards change coming in the wake of both top-level national governance and the natural course of events ...
Quality and security of the automated control systems in the armed forces (troops): unity of the whole and the partial.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Before passing over to the core of the problem, which is under discussion, it is necessary to define the terms "quality" and "product quality" as a whole. The philosophy determines quality as "a determinacy of an object (phenomenon, process) on the basis of which it [the object] acquires ...
Military and economic evaluation of automated control systems at the tactical level: methodological support.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Current changes in the composition and structure of the Army, experience of local wars and military conflicts of the last two decades dictate the necessity to permanently improve the control of troops and weapons. It is not possible to maintain constantly high combat and mobilization ...
On development of mine warfare countermeasures.
Jan 01, 2007; ... A recent wave of local conflicts and violent clashes in the world has contributed greatly to widening the experience in engineering support of troops in action. The most typical military conflicts where Soviet and Russian troops were engaged include combat operations of the limited ...
Basic requirements to the system of air defense of troops and objects in modern situation.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Specific features of conducting modern operations by forces of the RF Armed Forces (coverage of all elements of operation formation by combat operations, absence of continuous defensive lines, presence of gaps and breaches between troops) demand from air defense formations, large and units ...
New approaches to air defense of the Russian Federation.
Jan 01, 2007; ... At the present time, the determining factor in modern wars and armed conflicts is the action by troops, forces and weapons from and via airspace and outer space. By this virtue, the amount of air defense objectives in the Russian Federation can only grow rather than remain the same ...
An organization theory of troops (forces) and their activity.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The analysis of the contemporary stage in development of human cognitive activity shows that the process of science differentiation is going on. For instance, at present the organization theory (1) is formed and structurally evolved from the contents of the various scientific schools. It ...
On conceptual principles of the military training.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The second stage of the Federal Program "Restructuring of the Russian Federation Military Training System for the Period Till 2010"* has been launched. Its high priority goals are the following: optimization of the military educational institution network, modernization of the material and ...
Remote education technologies as a part of the military training system: opportunities and prospects.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The present-day state of science and education, being directly dependent on economic and social factors, is notable for increased demands to the quality of expert training and requires constant search for new methods and means to make the educational process more efficient. Remote ...
Computer teaching aids: organizational and methodological aspects of development.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The absence of scientific and methodological support for the use of present-day information technology in the instruction process is the principle drawback of the informatization of education. The limiting factor is no longer the computer hardware means (they have evolved dramatically), ...
Foreign language teaching process: training modules.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The effective establishment in the instructional process in the military educational institution is provided by concrete pedagogical technology, i.e., by the system of pedagogical tools. The latter can be assumed to include the following tools: free dialogue, monologue, and role-playing ...
On measures to improve the level of safety in military service.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The activities performed by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are inextricably related with operation and maintenance of armaments, defense technology and military equipment. It frequently happens that military people and armed forces employees have to exercise their functions in ...
Patriotic indoctrination in Russia's Armed Forces.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The recent statement made by the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov about the tentative plans to restore the institution of military priesthood in the army has sparked off a rather lively and extensive discussion both in the army press and in the military circles. The plans to ...
New approach to analysis of present-day confrontation.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The new repartition of the world being currently underway and accelerated globalization processes give rise to earlier unprecedented problems and challenges for human civilization evolution. They are so profound that can exert dramatic impacts on the destinies of whole countries: some of ...
The evolution of CIS military-political cooperation.(Commonwealth of Independent States)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Analyzing the scientific papers published recently in Voennaia mysl' one can see, first of all, a wide gamut of problems covered by this journal. At the same time, it is visible that the military-theoretical publications often overlook the issues of military cooperation development in the ...
Aerospace defense: modern aspects.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Lately newspapers and magazines as well as politicians and military commanders have been paying much attention to aerospace defense of the state (ASD) as a complex of federal and military measures to repel (prepare to repel) aerospace attack of the enemy and to protect stet objects and ...
Russia's aerospace defense: the long journey in a maze of problems.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The unity of air and space attack forces attained in the second half of the 20th century, of the common forms of aggression assimilated by them called for the organization of the same aerospace defense (ASD) of Russia integrated by tasks, resources, realizable forms, space and time. ...
History and philosophy of military service.
Jan 01, 2007; ... What led to this article was the publication of a document of the Federal Agency for Education on the introduction of an additional educational training program on the said theme for the professorial and teaching personnel engaged in the humanities. Based on the document, the RF Defense ...
History and conceptual nature of naval science.
Jan 01, 2007; ... It is a widely known fact that the term "history" has two meanings. The first one implies examination or disclosure of the actual course of development of some phenomena taking place either in nature or in human society, and the second one means a science which studies this process. In ...
The Fifth (Mediterranean) Squadron: air defense operations (1970-1972).(Era overview)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Let us first consider the concept of "fleet air defense" as it is defined in official enforceable legal documents: "Aggregate of measures and combat operations to repel hostile attack and to protect naval forces at sea and in base, as well as naval shore installations against enemy air ...
How command and control agencies in the Leningrad Military District interact with mass media.(League of Journalists of St. Petersburg)
Jan 01, 2007; ... The public and mass media are always interested in the military problems. There are appropriate information support agencies to provide materials informing individuals, organizations and mass media about the activities of military units and military command-and-control elements. Their ...