scholarly journals USSR "Nuclear Project": Some Manager Aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Skazochkin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Management System ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Level

The main goal of the article was to study the organizational structure, principles of the control system and motivation of groups of creators of nuclear weapons in the USSR in the 40-50-s of the twentieth century. The article shows the political situation that preceded the period of creating nuclear weapons in the USSR, the system of organizing R&D of the US military-industrial complex in the 40s and 70s, the retaliatory steps taken by the USSR leadership to create nuclear weapons of the defense triad, the organizational structure for creating nuclear weapons in the USSR in 40-50-s of the XX century. The weapons production management system created at that time subsequently demonstrated outstanding results in other projects. It is concluded that the success of the “atomic project” was possible, including due to the principles that make up the so-called “Russian management system”, which the organizers and executors of the project, individually and collectively, perceived as their own. The main principles of the management system that emerged during the implementation of the project: a high level of national-state ambitions; mobilization and redistribution of resources in key areas; the creation of centralized control, and, if necessary, control and repressive structures; creation of parallel management structures; autonomy of grassroots units; widespread use of third-party administrative, intellectual and technological resources.

scholarly journals MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF BUSINESS STRUCTURES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (388) ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
Kokenova A.T., ◽  
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Sadykbekova A.A., ◽  
Statsenko O.A., ◽  
Orazova B.B., ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
World Market ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovative Potential ◽  
High Level

Neither the development of the world economy nor the availability of raw materials can guarantee the stability of economic development and a high level of social welfare. Now Kazakhstan faces the task of accelerated development of national economy sectors that give a multiplicative effect (the share of agricultural products in the country's GDP should grow 5 times by 2050), including the agro-industrial complex of Kazakhstan has a great potential to become a new driver of economic development. Therefore, the agro-industrial complex of Kazakhstan needs sustainable development of export-oriented agricultural production that is competitive on the world market. Despite the solution of many theoretical and applied problems reflected in the works of these authors, a General approach to the classification of organizational reserves for improving the efficiency of production of scientific-intensive products is not currently formed, and the issues of forming a mezzanine for identifying and using, and evaluating the level of production efficiency require further improvement. The purpose of the research is to develop theoretical, scientific, methodological and practical provisions for the formation of a production management system of innovative potential based on improving the competitiveness of the agricultural industry, aimed at ensuring food security in Kazakhstan. The article shows that the innovative type of economic development requires the development of a competitive innovative potential product, the implementation of the principles of continuous improvement, the search and use of the organization of production for its effective production. The necessity of forming mechanisms for identifying and using organizational reserves to increase the efficiency of production of innovative potential products is also determined. This opened up the possibility of creating and developing conditions conducive to the mobilization of domestic reserves.

US military spending will increase for NATO’s east

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Incompatible Cross ◽  
The Baltic

Significance The United States has stationed 600 paratroopers in the Baltic countries and will defend their airspace for the duration of the Zapad-2017 exercise in a bid to reassure NATO allies of Washington’s commitment to their security. Longer term, Washington's European Deterrence Initiative (EDI) is paying for a forward presence of additional US forces in Europe, construction of additional infrastructure and upgrades to existing facilities. Impacts The US military will seek to conclude detailed hosting agreements with Eastern European NATO countries. Poland and South Korea are likely candidates for an expanded permanent US forward presence. Repeated US congressional budget standoffs will worry allies awaiting longer-term infrastructure projects. Stationing US tactical nuclear weapons on NATO’s eastern borders would be more provocative to Moscow than EDI-funded rotations. Replacing incompatible cross-border railway gauges between the Baltic states and Poland will take over a decade.

Military-civil fusion will strengthen China’s military

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
The West ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cost

Significance MCF aims to harness the inventiveness of the country’s private-sector technology firms to strengthen its military capabilities. It is partially based on the US military-industrial complex, but has come to encompass a much broader range of actors and activities. Impacts MCF will come at the cost of greater international tension and less research and scientific cooperation with the West. The already diverse range of actors and activities involved in MCF is likely to expand further. Firms in sectors with little obvious military relevance are potentially vulnerable to sanctions as a result of their involvement with MCF. China’s level of military technology will continue to converge with that of the West.

The Origin and Nature of the US “Military-Industrial Complex”

Vulcan ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Alic
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Military Systems

This paper makes three primary claims. First, the so-called military-industrial complex (MIC) has its roots in the United States during World War I, when the army and navy turned to private firms for design of aircraft, and not, as some analysts have proposed, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Second, theMICtook on its current shape during the 1950s. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous warning, in effect, expressed recognition of and perhaps something like dismay at his own creation. Finally, despite the broad shift in responsibility for design, development, and production of military systems from government to industry in the middle of the last century, the armed forces remain the dominant partner in theMICby reason of their control over the technical requirements that shape and constrain weapons system design. This leaves the defense industry a junior partner.

scholarly journals Organizational structure and operations of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces (1955-1963)

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Anh Quy Tung Vu
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Republic

The Republic of Vietnam Military Forces (RVNMF) is a product of the neocolonialism and the US war in South Vietnam. It is organized, staffed, well-equipped in a modern way to carry out combat operations with the US military. After understanding its organization and activities in the period 1955-1963, the author gives out some explanation for the failure of the US in the neocolonialism war in South Vietnam which is actually a military defeat.

Welcome to the Desert of Real Imagination

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 971-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Buckel ◽  
Jens Wissel
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International System ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
International Regulation ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Leadership Structure

In response to the violence of the international system, “realist” approaches are flourishing. In the aftermath of “9/11”, gulf war No. 3, the challenge to the achievements of international law and the unchallengeable dominance of the US military-industrial complex, this is particularly noticeable. Theories which affirm an anarchical world without any international regulation, in which only the application of military power guarantees freedom and security are gaining credibility. This everyday understanding is also employed in Robert Kagan's essay. While “the Americans” exercise power in an anarchical international system, “the Europeans” aim for a post-historical paradise of peace and relative prosperity. The fuss about Kagan's essay can hardly be explained by a rich analysis of the current international situation, for it does not supply this. It is even more surprising that the superficial pattern of interpretation considers that the essay expresses a “fundamental truth of the international system,” which is only articulated once in ten years. But we want to argue that it is not about “truth,” but about the production and propagation of a hegemonic discourse. Accordingly Kagan must be perceived as what he is: the co-founder of the reactionary think tank “Project for a New American Century”; an intellectual belonging to the neo-conservative leadership structure, a group that pressed the ideological case for the war against Iraq.

scholarly journals Global privatized power

Focaal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (73) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Maria Theresia Starzmann
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
State Organizations ◽  
The Military

The practice of archaeologists and other heritage specialists to embed with the US military in Iraq has received critical attention from anthropologists. Scholars have highlighted the dire consequences of such a partnership for cultural heritage protection by invoking the imperialist dimension of archaeological knowledge production. While critical of state power and increasingly of militarized para-state actors like the self-proclaimed Islamic State, these accounts typically eclipse other forms of collaboration with non-state organizations, such as private military and security companies (PMSCs). Focusing on the central role of private contractors in the context of heritage missions in Iraq since 2003, I demonstrate that the war economy's exploitative regime in regions marked by violent conflict is intensified by the growth of the military-industrial complex on a global scale. Drawing on data from interviews conducted with archaeologists working in the Middle East, it becomes clear how archaeology and heritage work prop up the coloniality of power by tying cultural to economic forms of control.

scholarly journals Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the US Military-political Strategy and Ukraine

2016 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
O. Potiekhin
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
International Security ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Nuclear Arsenal ◽  
The Third ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Us

The article deals with the main events and causes of appearance in the US of nuclear taboo under President H. Truman’s influence, who was responsible for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The consideration is given to the principles and options for containment as a separate case of non-use of nuclear weapons strategy. The positive and negative features of the nuclear deterrent doctrine and policy are shown.The author considers some aspects of the US policy in the sphere of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons related to nuclear taboo and the joint efforts of Washington and Moscow aimed at depriving Ukraine of the nuclear arsenal inherited from the Soviet Union. The discussions on the matter are revealed. The consequences of violation  of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 and a lack of deterrent power against the Russian aggression in nuclear-free Ukraine are analysed. The attention is focused on the need for the US military and political assistance  to Ukraine and its provision with  appropriate weapons for strengthening international security. It is stressed that nuclear weapons play a decisive role in preventing  the third WW.

scholarly journals E-commerce: Buying and Selling through Internet in Kosovo

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Dr.Sc. Jusuf Qarkaxhija
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Virtual Store ◽  
Web Designers ◽  
E Mail

Before internet was invented, there were invented numerous networks that helped American businesses in multiple savings. First of, they didn’t spend money on buying printers or scanners for the computers they possessed, meaning that the money spent before on buying hundreds of them, now was saved and used to buy a few of printers and scanners. How was this done? This worked by binding the entire computers of a floor to a single network. Second, the factor mostly taken into account is the energy saving and various abuses. Imagine the enormous amount of electricity that hundreds of printers and scanners would spend  and how much energy tens of them would spend, moreover  just think about how much these devices would be used in offices, where nobody is looking, for personal interests.American business, as the most creative one and the strongest was bothered by only one thing . This was the misuse of secret corporation information. These abuses occurred when the data had to be printed and transferred to corporate subsidiaries around the world. During the transfer the data could also be lost or damaged (intentionally or unintentionally) and then the corporation would suffer losses (the data were transferred via floppy discs, or they were printed in hard copies). The solution for these problems came from the US military that had invented the internet earlier and after having consumed it for its own needs, decided to put it up for American businesses.The internet has developed its own services such as : www, ftp, e-mail, and buying and selling though internet (e-commerce). Nowadays, information exchanges with corporate branches are not made roughly, but electronically in real time. Additionally, this made it possible for a new category of web designers to be created and they created a powerful web-site through which some businesses created virtual shops and they started earning more money than they used to, in their physical stores.This American development started penetrating in other countries as well. In Kosovo and Albania the situation has not changed in terms of doing business through internet. An important reason might be that Kosovo is not admitted to third party service for payments paypal.com, as well as in the world’s largest virtual store Amazon.Inc. But the first steps have already been taken.

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