Military Thought back issues from July 2007:
Military-political aspects of future cooperation between Russia, India and China in the bilateral format and within SCO.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Prospects of Multilateral Cooperation within Shanghai Cooperation Organization It is not at all accidental that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has been repeatedly mentioned in this paper. Speaking about interstate cooperation methods and format, it should be noted that in ...
Experience of the CIS Antiterrorist Center in terrorist threat neutralization.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) currently represents a community of states generated in new geopolitical conditions and based on historical roots, traditions, economic cooperation and spiritual affinity of their people. CIS member states, along with their own national ...
About the present-day context of "national security" concept.
Jul 01, 2007; ... A lot of attention is being paid nowadays (in particular, by the country's research community and state structures) to the issues dealing with the Russian Federation national security maintenance. This is explained by quite a number of reasons, first of all, by the real threat to our ...
Naval activity: key problems of development.
Jul 01, 2007; ... In compliance with the naval doctrine of the Russian Federation, naval activity is understood as the aggregate of government efforts aimed at studying, developing and using the World Ocean in the interests of defense and security of the country with the involvement of the military ...
Military Academy of the General Staff: history and modern times (devoted to the 175th anniversary from the date of foundation).
Jul 01, 2007; ... On December 8, 2007, we are celebrating the 175th anniversary from the date of foundation of the Imperial Military Academy of Russia, currently--the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces. The 175 years' period is a huge historical epoch. During this ...
Military strategy of the Russian Federation in the early 21st century.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The development of the military thought in this country is indissolubly linked with the Strategy Department established on December 8 (November 26 Old Style), 1832, simultaneously with the Imperial Military Academy. The Department was focused on military strategy, an academic discipline ...
Navy's role in strategic deterrence.
Jul 01, 2007; ... In spite of the seemingly obvious conclusion that the armed forces during all their history have been the most effective instrument of national policies not only during the war but also in peacetime, Russian military art principles are primarily focused on military force application during ...
Organizational development and streamlining of the Internal Troops as part of the state military system, based on the experience of the Great Patriotic War.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1941-1945) required the mobilization of all of the country's resources to repel the enemy: the deployment of strategic reserves and a reorganization of all services and branches of the country's Armed Forces, including the Internal Troops of the ...
Some aspects of concepts refinement in military art.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... In military art the basic concepts are "armed struggle," "military and combat actions," "types, forms, methods of military (combat) operations" etc. They are used for the development of conceptual regulations on the deployment of the Armed Forces, manuals, field manuals of services and ...
Modern tactics: the analysis of the state-of-the-art and trends of development.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Perception of the state of the art of tactics and trends of its development inspires to search for manifestation of new laws being a key to penetration into the future. Evolution of tactics has passed and still is under way through a chain of dialectic negations, which provide for ...
On fighting capabilities of groups of troops in a combined arms operation (battle).
Jul 01, 2007; ... In the recent years articles having been published more and more often in many editions of a military press including the pages of the magazine "Military Thought" on questions of development of the theory of employment of troops in wars and confrontations of the future. In one of such ...
The evolution and development of the theory and practice of the operational art at the General Staff Military Academy.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Operational Art Department at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) was formed in the 1930s. Its creation, in 1936, was a timely and natural reaction by the country's leadership to the imminent threat of World War II. According to the ...
Fire destruction of the enemy in defensive operation of operational strategic large formation.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The results of the largest operations and wars of 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries show that the role of fire destruction of the enemy (EFD) steadily grows. The analysis of modern views on EFD in defensive operation of operational strategic large formation carried out in the ...
The role of operational-tactical requirements in warship development.
Jul 01, 2007; ... There is a close interconnection between the character of the tasks of protecting state interests at sea and the functional characteristics of weapon systems. The tasks that are assigned to the Navy, as well as the forms and methods of fulfilling them, are to a very large degree ...
Organizing operation, maintenance and storage of weapons and military equipment: scientific-methodological and regulatory support.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... A number of publications on urgent matters in the development of systems engaged in operation, maintenance and storage (OMS) of weapons and military equipment (WME), including those appearing in Military Thought, (1) increasingly focus on how to organize scientific-methodological support ...
Military satellite communications systems: current state and development prospects.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The efficiency of military presence of limited contingents in zones where a clash of interests takes place is primarily determined by command and control capabilities in the tactical echelon. Another crucial factor in this sense is the ability to maintain steady communications with the ...
Defense-industrial complex: contributing to the intensification of the Russian economy.
Jul 01, 2007; ... In the light of the national socioeconomic development assignments the RF President posed in his April 2007 Address to the Federal Assembly, the problem of how to increase economic growth rates is of primary importance for Russia. The existing GDP growth rates are insufficient and unable ...
Military command agencies: working with the media in the period of an armed conflict.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Wars and armed conflicts have long become a stable and leading media theme. If somewhere in the world certain opposing forces start sorting out relations with the help of military force, reports about it immediately appear in the electronic and print media. This is so because wars and ...
A system-structural view on the use of underground space by troops.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Armed warfare as the main type of confrontation in wars, military conflicts, armed uprisings, mutinies and coups was for a long time mostly a land-based affair. In connection with the emergence and massive employment of aviation in the early 20th century, the spatial scale of engagements ...
Coalition issues in Russian and Western military science.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Concepts of military coalitions and coalition military operations emerged in the foreground as a distinct object of study at the turn of the 19th century, or practically at the same time as European military science came into its own. This was a reaction to actually unending clashes in ...
On multilevel training of military specialists.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2007; ... The involved and dynamic nature of present-day service-and-combat activity, use of the newest IT, weapons and military equipment in it, dependence of the course and outcome (results) of combat actions on the content and quality the preliminary training of military personnel involve the ...
The problem of student adaptation in the process of training in the military higher education establishment.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The main segment of trainees in military higher education establishments (colleges, universities) are students qualifying to take appropriate officer positions in the army and navy. In the opinion of ex-Minister of Defense S.B. Ivanov, it is the quality of the training of young people of ...
Training of officer personnel for aerospace defence system of the Russian Federation.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The effective operation and development of the system of aerospace defense of the state, apart from other conditions, require military specialists, who know equally well the skills of developing and controlling all the integral components of the system, i.e., aerospace defense specialists ...
Priorities in the study of forces (facilities) of aerospace attack and of organization of reconnaissance.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The study of aerospace attack forces and facilities (ASAF) holds one of the principle places in the professional training of officers--specialists of aerospace defense (ASD). The validity and success in taking the decisions concerning the deployment of aerospace defense forces ...
Systems analysis: recommendations for problem identification, formulation, and study.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Our previous publication (1) considered the methodological, conceptual, and substantive aspects of systems analysis, including its basic lines and stages, as well as the role and importance of systems analysis procedures in the methodological arsenal of military researchers and ...
Deceiving the enemy: some points of essence.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Singular in its penetration, the article "How to Learn to Deceive the Enemy" (1) by V.N. Karankevich is unlikely to have left anyone indifferent. As is evident from its content, style of reasoning and logical order, all that the author says is really a long overdue matter and deserves to ...
Philosophy of war and theory of how to direct modern confrontation.(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2007; ... In recent years this journal gave much attention to some fundamental problems of military science. Suffice it to refer to articles by M.A. Gareyev, S.A. Tyushkevich and V.A. Vinogradov, as well as some latest contributions by V.V. Kruglov and I.N. Vorobyov, and V.A. Kiselyov, who divulged ...
Defense industry complex potentialities for RF Armed Forces employment in regional war.(Russian Federation)
Jul 01, 2007; ... The RF Military Doctrine approved by the RF President's Decree No. 706 dated April 21, 2000 places high emphasis on the employment of the Armed Forces for repelling an attack, however the contingency of the regional war (theatre war) being unleashed against our country is not excluded ...
The way the military leaders think: looking into the past.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Any state, and its military-political leaders in the first place, are concerned, first and foremost, with building up a highly professional officer corps, especially the part involved in operational and strategic command. This is one of the tasks of military psychology and pedagogics that ...
Role and place of forecasting and prevision in operation and combined-arms battle planning system.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Speaking at the scientific conference in the Academy of Military Science on January 24th 2004, the RF Government First Deputy Chairman S.B. Ivanov underlined that "the further development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the building-up of the professional army of the 21st ...
Creation and development of the combat training system in the Strategic Missile Forces, 1959-1965.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Combat training in the Armed Forces is one of the factors in ensuring the operational effectiveness and combat readiness of troops. Its constant upgrading is closely connected with the development of the level of technical equipment, changes in the T/O structure of troops, and the ...
Evaluation of officers in Russia: historical aspect.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Undeservedly little attention was paid recently to the questions of evaluation of servicemen and, above all, of officer personnel, notwithstanding the fact that it is one of the most important elements required for the successful operation of any army. The evaluation of officer personnel ...
Air weapons vs. air defense: armed conflicts in recent decades.
Jul 01, 2007; ... As is evident from the record of local wars and military conflicts in Korea, South East Asia and the Middle East, the states that unleashed them normally pursued combat operations while in possession of air force superiority. It was air supremacy that figured as a crucial prerequisite of ...
China's military-economic strategy and its armed forces restructuring.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The military-economic strategy of the Chinese People's Republic (CPR) represents a set of theoretical views and practical measures for coordinated development of military and civil sectors of the country so as to promote appropriate economic conditions for the modernization of China's ...