Iron Cannot Fight1 – The Role of Technology in Current Russian Military Theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor Bukkvoll
Keyword(s):  
Russian Military ◽  
Military Theory

Arctic Militarization and Russian Military Theory

Orbis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Petersen ◽  
Rebecca Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Russian Military ◽  
Military Theory

The Role of Deterrence in a new European strategic environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Rob de Wijk
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Complete Overhaul ◽  
Crimea Peninsula

Abstract: The new Russian military doctrine from 2010, the growing international assertiveness of Russia, and eventually the annexation of the Crimea Peninsula in 2014 have forced the West to rethink deterrence strategies vis a vis Russia. Consequently, the old Cold War concept of deterrence was dusted off and the debate picked up from where it had ended in 1990. This article summarizes the end of the Cold War thinking on deterring aggression against NATO-Europe. It explains why the present Western theoretical foundation of deterrence, which still focuses on strong conventional forces backed up by nuclear weapons, no longer suffices, and argues that the new Russian concept of strategic deterrence requires a complete overhaul of the Western approach. It is not only the security of the Baltic member states of NATO or of transatlantic cables that matter, Europe has to cope with desinformation and destabilization campaigns and has to rethink its energy security strategy. Only together can NATO and EU master these challenges.

scholarly journals UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER CONDITION OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY AGGRESSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Vasylivna Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
National Security ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Ukrainian Catholic

The organizational structure of the religious organizations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine is investigated in the article. The essence, directions, forms of activity of Catholic religious organizations in modern conditions of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine are analyzed. The peculiarities of the functioning of Ukrainian Catholic religious organizations on the occupied part of Donbas are characterized. The role of religious organizations of the Catholic faith in carrying out socially useful activities in Ukraine in the context of national security is highlighted.

scholarly journals Teaching russian as a foreign language in the modern educational paradigm: training dictionaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 01012
Author(s):  
Liudmila Alexandrovna Iniutina ◽  
Tatiana Sergeevna Shilnikova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Lexical Competence ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Independent Work

The work is devoted to the problem of intensification of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the process of formation and development of the lexical competence of students. The role of educational dictionaries of various types is emphasized. The Experimental Electronic Multilingual Dictionary of Military Terms is presented. It is based on ABBYY Lingvo software for teaching Russian to foreign students of military universities. His vocabulary includes a special vocabulary describing various segments of military activity (weapons, equipment, commands, military life, etc.). For each word there are translations into European languages (boi - English batttle, combat; French combat (m); Portuguese combate) and Asian languages (Laos ; Arabic ; Pashto ). The potential of an electronic multilingual dictionary in the implementation of multicultural and professionally oriented teaching of Russian as a foreign language in a non-linguistic university is identified. The role of the electronic translated multilingual thesaurus in the formation of speech professional competence, which ensures the removal of language barriers in the study of military-technical sciences by foreigners, is determined. The universality of the dictionary is characterized. It was created taking into account those national languages whose speakers receive special education in Russian military universities, and provides opportunities for the redistribution of classroom and independent work of students. Its effectiveness has been proven as a tool for modern interactive, multilingual and multicultural education.

The Refraction of Geometry

2013 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Tristram Shandy ◽  
War Games ◽  
Military Theory

This essay examines the role of geometry in military theory around 1700 and its critical reception in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Juxtaposing literature, maps, and war games, the essay outlines a poetics of war in the eighteenth century and traces the decline of the geometrical order that governs it. A forged continuation of Sterne’s novel written in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars reveals the development of a new poetics and the installment of a military order based on topography and chance.

scholarly journals DIVIDE ET IMPERA. RUSSIAN CENTRALISM AS A CONFLICTING FACTOR FOR UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY IN RETROSPECTION AND IN CONTEMPORARY REALITIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Kahamlyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Space ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
Divide And Rule ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The topicality of the article is motivated by the present situation of Ukraine under conditions of Russian military and information aggression and of the active spread in the information space of the aggressive concept of the "Russian world". The purpose of the article is to investigate the causes and essence of conflict processes in Ukrainian Orthodoxy, in particular, to analyze the role of the Russian centralism in them in the past and in contemporary realities. It is determined that the causes of conflicts in the sphere of Ukrainian Orthodoxy aч re largely related to the act of ecclesiastical submission to the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686. The situation of Ukraine under conditions of Russian military and informational aggression, in which the church matters also played an important role, refer to the exploration of Russian centralism as a conflict factor for Ukrainian Orthodoxy. The actual character of the issue is also determined by the modern planting in the information space of the aggressive theory of the "Russian world" as well as the necessity to find the ways for consolidation of the Ukrainian society, in particular in the sphere of interconfessional relations. In order to weaken the opposition of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical superiors to imperial centralism, the Russian government deliberately resorted to incitement between the secular and the ecclesiastical elites. Such measures were taken by Empress Anna Ioanovna, who ordered Prince Oleksii Shakhovskyi, the ruler of Little Russia at that time to persuade the Cossack elders secretly to protest against the giving of land possession to the Church. In the same way the Empress Catherine II acted and consciously orientated the ruler of the Little Russia Earl Piotr Rumiantsev to support conflicts between the Ukrainian nobility and clergy according to the principle “divide et impera” (divide and rule). Contemporary Russian information aggression has revealed various forms of propaganda in Ukrainian society, one of which is the project of the “Russian world”. A major point in overcoming the influence of the Russian neoimperial factor in Ukrainian society as well as the contemporary conflicts on the level of Ukrainian Orthodoxy is the development of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine founded a result of the age-old aspirations of Ukrainian society for church unity. The important steps for strengthening if the church unity were outlined by the Bishops' Council of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine convened on December 14, 2019.

scholarly journals Current practice of organizing and financing the departmental healthcare system for the military in developed countries: a review

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Bezdenezhnykh ◽  
D. V. Lukyantseva
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Military

Departmental medicine as a Russian-specific healthcare system is currently subject to broad discussions on whether its further support and financing is worthwhile. The Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation has one of the most developed healthcare systems in Russia and thus provides medical care to the military personnel and the veterans. This report aims to review the current practice of organizing and financing the medical assistance for the military in seven developed countries (USA, Uk, Canada, Germany, France, Finland and Singapore) in order to use their experience for the optimization of the Russian military departmental healthcare. This review covers the general principles of healthcare in these countries as well as the specific mechanisms of health care provision for the military.  The Departments of Defense in the reviewed counties have special agencies that provide medical services to the military personnel. The primary role of such agencies is to promote, protect and restore the health of servicemen and servicewomen and to ensure they are ready and fit to perform their missions.  As shown in the present review, the specific details of the medical assistance to the military differ between the countries and largely depend on the overall structure of the national healthcare system.

scholarly journals Shipbuilding of the Azov Fleet in 1695-1712 in the Russian historiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Timofei Vladimirovich Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
Military Industry ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Voronezh Region ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Military Production

The subject of this article is the assessments of national researchers on various aspects of shipbuilding of the Azov Fleet in 1695-1712. The goal consists in revealing the key issues in development of shipbuilding industry as one of the branches of domestic military production by means of critical analysis and generalization of results of research conducted by the Russian scholars. The author examines the factors  and prerequisites for selecting Voronezh as the center of construction of the Azov fleet, the key stages and evolution of shipbuilding industry and activity in the Voronezh Region, establishment of administrative branches and role of foreign experts thereof,  results of shipbuilding of the Azov Fleet and its impact upon further development of shipbuilding industry in Russia. The novelty of this study consists in analysis of the works of national researchers dedicated to shipbuilding of the Azov Fleet for covering the problem of establishment of shipbuilding sectors of the Russian military industry, clarifying and generalizing debating points on the subject matter. The article describes the influence of the conditions of shipbuilding of the Azov Fleet upon the course of shipbuilding works and the image of forming shipbuilding industry. The factors of institutionalization of shipbuilding industry, the course of development of the first shipbuilding cluster in Russia, as well as the results of short-term and long-term shipbuilding activity of are revealed.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC ROLE OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL VALUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE MODERN HYBRID WARFARE ERA

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Serhii Zubchenko
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Yugoslav Wars ◽  
Russian Military

The relevance of the article determines by urgent problems of the global diplomatic agenda, in particular, concerning the international legal response to the Russian military aggression against Ukraine and acts of state terrorism all around the world carried out by Russia within its doctrine of hybrid war. After the end of Yugoslav wars and up until 2014, the threat of full-scale military conflict in European continent was mistakenly evaluated as low, while the other threats (in particular, associated with globalization) considered to be more dangerous. However, the permission to use armed force in Ukraine, unanimously given to V. Putin by the Federation council of Russia on March 1, 2014 and the following events in Ukrainian Crimea and Donbas regions crushed the global order established after the fall of USSR and opened a horrifying terroristic «Pandora’s box» in the very heart of Europe. As a result of the study, political and legal proposals and recommendations were determined. Considerations regarding the role of trust as a vital element of interstate relations, the lack of which provokes conflicts, leads to the encapsulation of states, making it impossible for them to achieve sustain and progressive development and to solve important common problems, are substantiated. As a conclusion in this context, the necessity to ensure strict adherence of the principles of international law as the «rules of the game» of the geopolitical club and the «red lines», violating of which activates uncontrolled global scale processes, is highlighted. It is also necessary to ensure prompt response to apparent violations of international law that threaten international peace and global security. In addition, the urgent need to preserve international sanctions against the aggressor country — Russian Federation — and entities, individuals and groups, affiliated with the Putin’s regime, is insisted.

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