A few considerations concerning the presence of Hussite‑style war wagons as part of John Hunyadi’s army

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Raul‑Alexandru Todika ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
War Machine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military ◽  
Slavic Studies

The main objective of this paper is to bring forward a subject that was long neglected by the Romanian historiography and Slavic studies: the military importance of the contingents of Bohemian mercenaries within the army of John Hunyadi, and the extensive usage of the Wagenburg and the Hussite war wagons as part of the improvements of the armed forces in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary. These changes were made by John Hunyadi during the first half of the fifteenth century, in relation to the tactical and strategic necessities imposed by the wars fought against the Turks. My approach of the topic sheds light on the ability of John Hunyadi to use the offensive, defensive, and logistical potential of this rudimentary but extremely versatile and efficient war machine, and points out at the fact that the Kingdom of Hungary was, at that time, up to date with the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century military technologies. In addition, this paper explores a variety of Christian and Ottoman sources and compares these narratives in regard to the subject. The current Romanian historiography has failed to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Hussite-style war wagons, and thus the relevance of this paper is linked to broadening the perspective on the matter.

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SUBSTANTIATION OF THE SEMANTIC COMPONENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL PROFILE OF ANOFFICER-PSYCHOLOGIST OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
A. Yurkov
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Optimal Decisions ◽  
Semantic Component ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Practical Analysis ◽  
The Military

The professional profile of an officer-psychologist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clearly defines the activities of specialist, the dominate type of activities in his work, and qualities that ensure the successful performing of duties. The professional profile of an officer-psychologist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine generally answers the following questions: what activity is analyzed and what is the subject and purpose of this activity, what are the criteria for assessing the effectiveness of professional activities; what are the factors that affect the psyche of military specialist; what are the special requirements for soldiers. According to the results of the questionnaire survey of experts the professionally important qualities of readiness of the officer-psychologist for professional activity in the Armed Forces were determined on the basis of the obtained and mathematically processed results of the questionnaire. The indicators of professionally important (necessary) qualities were determined, namely moral-volitional and emotional traits of an officer-psychologist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The competencies, that are acquired during the formation of the readiness of future psychologists for professional activity in the Armed Forces and should be formed as a result of professional training, have been developed on the basis of scientific and practical analysis. They are the following: the navigate in difficult combat situations, the ability to take optimal decisions and set tasks to subordinate units in a combat situation based on the analysis of received information, the assessment of the situation and ability to provide tactical calculations, the ability to develop and maintain combat documents and records. The professional profile of the officer-psychologist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clearly defines the activities of specialist, the dominate type of activities in his work, and qualities that ensure the successful performing of duties. The training of a modern officer-psychologist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is aimed at ensuring the harmonious development of the personality of an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, that implies the development of all potential opportunities inherent in a specialist. The military psychologist should be prepared for the practical activities as a result of mastering of professional knowledge, skills and abilities (planned result of education), theoretical competence, the formation of professional competencies of a soldier.

scholarly journals MILITARY-PEDAGOGICAL ORIENTATION OF MILITARY SPECIALIST TRAINING

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
L. Gorodianska
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
General Level ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Level ◽  
Intellectual Potential ◽  
The Military

The military-pedagogical process is a complex socio-psychological phenomenon. Its essence lies in purposeful, motivated, substantive organizational and educational activities of all its subjects. This activity is aimed at preparing the military specialists who are able to successfully perform their functional duties both in peacetime and in modern war conditions. The strength of the country's defense capability and combat readiness in modern conditions is ensured by a high level of intellectual potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This potential is being formed as a set of potentials of highly qualified personnel of military specialists. Today the task of reforming military education is not limited only to structural and functional transformations of the educational base and restructuring of the educational process. It is necessary to create an environment (a system of higher military education) for constant spiritual and professional improvement of the individual and motivation to achieve a high level of military professionalism. Access of educational institutions to modern information technologies contributed to the emergence of interactive forms of learning and transformation of the subject of learning from a passive participant and its active involvement in the learning process. Given the development of digital technologies and the difficult state in which Ukraine found itself due to military action and the negative epidemiological situation, it is appropriate to create a system of higher military education using the subject-activity approach and the introduction of forms of distance learning. It is proposed to direct the military-pedagogical training of specialists along six lines. The assessment of the level of conformity of a serviceman's actual professional qualities with the requirements to the occupied military position is important in the professional-psychological selection in the Armed Forces. That is why it is expedient to develop a model of recreation of intellectual potential of servicemen and a methodology for evaluating the general level of intellectual resources of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the basis of construction of such model it is offered to put directions of military-pedagogical training of military specialists together with professionally important criteria of evaluation of recreating of moral-psychological qualities of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Gender Equality Education in the European Military Universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
Nevena Atanasova-Krasteva
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Leadership Formation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
European Policies ◽  
The Military

Abstract The report points the need of studying the gender equality topic as an element of leadership formation of the future officers in the European Armed Forces. The analysis of the approaches to the inclusion of the subject in different disciplines will help to increase the sensitivity and the understanding of the military personnel to the questions related to the implementation of the gender equality in a military environment. The equal treatment of the both sexes and the opportunities for successful realization, based on their professionalism, would contribute to the harmonization of the working environment as a part of modern European policies.

scholarly journals SYTUACJA USTROJOWO-PRAWNA WYODRĘBNIONYCH WOJSKOWYCH SŁUŻB SPECJALNYCH

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feliks Prusak
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Capacity To Act ◽  
Statutory Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military

THE LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF PARTICULAR MILITARY SPECIAL SERVICES Summary The subject of this study is an account of all the special services in the Polish military, a description of their legal and constitutional status and the scope of their powers, and an account of the formula for their activities as prescribed by statutory law. A point of paramount significance which is often ignored is the verification of the existence of a military reconnaissance service in the Polish Armed Forces. Another important point is the confirmation that the military special services do not have the legal capacity to act as a party to criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals THE USE OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC IN 1994-1995

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
V.A. Gurov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
The North ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Units

The article is devoted to the role and place of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in restoring constitutional order in the Chechen Republic. The author summarized the experience of using military units and subunits in regrouping and destroying militants in urban and mountainous conditions. He offers a comprehensive analysis of the shortcomings in the training of military units. The article also contains author's subjective observations made during participation in the military operations in Chechnya.

scholarly journals Differentiation of military personnel for professional selection based on the results of the eye estimation study

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Ivan F. Seryi ◽  
Sergey Avdyushenko ◽  
Semyon D. Khrushchev
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Estimation Technique ◽  
Important Direction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Units

The most important direction of the military doctrine of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the improvement of the events of manning military units. The degree of fitness of the soldier is currently being determined during professional selection events. The level of development of professionally important qualities is determined for the assessment of professional fitness. The following requirements are placed on the professions of such specialties as the gunner of the tank gun, and the gunner of the artillery gun: accurately determine the distance to the target, select the aiming point, correctly set the initial data on the sight scale. In turn, the scout must be able to navigate the terrain and determine the coordinates of the enemys target and objects, be able to conduct hidden observation. When selecting military personnel for these specialties, special attention should be paid to the individual properties of the eye estimation of candidates. The Eye estimation technique is a tool for differentiating military personnel depending on their ability to accurately recognize spatial intervals. The developed candidate differentiation scales allow determining the place of the subject (area number) among the entire population of candidates depending on the value of the primary indicator from one of 10 subgroups using the percentile scale and assessing the severity of a professionally important function using 10 wall scales (4 figures, 3 tables, bibliography: 8 refs).

scholarly journals Cooperation Between Poland and the USA in the Protection of Classified Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-143
Author(s):  
Mirosław Tokarski
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military

The military cooperation between Poland and the USA so far has undoubtedly influenced the shape of the external security. The tangible expression of this cooperation is, among others, the signing of an agreement between Poland and the USA for the purchase of the Patriot system in July 2017. As a result, Poland joined the elite group of countries possessing weapons capable of countering enemy ballistic and maneuvering missiles. It also adjusts the domestic armed forces to the NATO standards and the requirements of the modern battlefield. An additional aspect of the existing cooperation between Poland and the USA is the agreement on the protection of classified information in the military sphere. In this context, the aim of this article is to identify the scope of cooperation between Poland and the USA in the area of security measures, which should guarantee the protection of classified information considering the interests of both countries. During the considerations, two basic research methods were used: analysis and synthesis. The former method was used in relation to the content of the concluded contract and the opinions presented in the literature on the subject. The latter method was used to formulate conclusions resulting from the conducted analysis. The considerations undertaken proved that there is an area of mutual cooperation in the field of protection of classified information between Poland and the USA. They also made it possible to obtain an answer to the question of what security measures determine the effectiveness of the protection of classified information in the military sphere between the contracting states.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF MILITARY EXPERT RESEARCH

2020 ◽  
pp. 707-714
Author(s):  
V. Savechko ◽  
A. Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Life Tasks ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Fail Safe ◽  
The Military

The article deals with the main results of the interim report for 2019 of the research work “Development of a methodology for establishing the conformity of actions (inactions) of officials with the requirements of regulatory documents on the organization of storage of missiles and ammunition and other means of destruction at arsenals, bases and warehouses” on the implementation of the activity of the troops (forces) of the Alliance’s military standards, the definition of the subject, object, main tasks and indicative list of issues of military expertise on the study of storage organization of missiles and ammunition. Application of the methodology relates to the research of the following issues: – the formation of arsenals, bases and warehouses; planning and organizing of daily life tasks and official activities; security and defense organization; countering sabotage and terrorist attacks; fire safety; storage of missiles and ammunition; fail safe; – determining the causal link between the actions (inactions) of the officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other forces formed in accordance with the laws of the military forces, law enforcement agencies of the security and defense sector to the current legislation (functional duties, instructions).

scholarly journals MILITARY TORT � A PHENOMENON OF MODERN LEGAL SCIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman V. Aliiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
National Security ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Military Law ◽  
The Military

The article considers the problem of general awareness of the legally significant properties of military offences (crimes, misdemeanours), their relationship with other types of offences, which is actually an urgent task, especially for the science of military law and the integration of legal science � general theory of law. Based on the analysis of terminological and conceptual aspects of military offences (crimes, misdemeanours), their own typology, legal features and features of the composition, the author of the article proposes their generalized definition as �military torts�. The study of the essence and content of military tort as a phenomenon of modern legal science, as well as ways to prevent, detect and stop it, is a special, special law enforcement tool within the leading institute of military law. Further study of the phenomenon of military tort provides an opportunity to form an independent complex scientific field - military tort. It is proved that the causes and conditions of offences in the Armed Forces of Ukraine involve a complex set of factors, processes and phenomena. At the same time, they are characterized by a number of features due to the specifics of military service and the activities of troops (forces). For example, the activities of personnel, internal order, military life and other military-public relations, which are regulated as much as possible by the rules of military statutes. In addition to military statutes, military-public relations are regulated by other rules of law, for example, the scope of criminal law is much broader � servicemen are responsible for committing both general crimes and military criminal offences. Considering the subject of research, which is a �military tor� as a phenomenon of modern legal science, it should be noted that in the theory of law and in the practice of personnel in the direction of legal support of military formation used phrases such as �military administrative offences�, �criminal offences�. Against the established order of military service (military criminal offences)�, �war crimes�, �military and disciplinary offences in the military sphere�, �criminal order or instruction �, etc. Therefore, there is a problem in determining the meaning of terms, and there are several reasons for this. The first, classic - the definition of the term allows you to outline the subject of research and discussion, the range of related problems. Another is the problem of the spread of offences in the military sphere, i.e. ensuring the national security and defense of Ukraine, due to its specificity is global (phenomenal) and therefore can be most effectively solved only if joint efforts are made at both international and national levels. Ensuring their effective interaction directly depends on a consistent understanding and interpretation of terminology in the direction of the study of lawful behaviour or the causes and conditions of deviant �tort� behaviour of service members. Thus, we see that the epistemological processes of formation of military torts as a phenomenon of scientific and legal category is characterized by a certain inconsistency, ambiguity and fragmentation, generated by situational aspects of necessity. However, we can determine that a military tort is a set of illegal (anti-social) acts (crimes or misdemeanours) provided by the current criminal legislation of capable subjects of military-public relations, encroaching on the foundations of national security, organization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and public order. Understanding and understanding of the acquired knowledge should be the basis for improving the institution of legal responsibility of servicemen in the military sphere as a fundamental means of protection, mechanism, guarantor, designed to ensure regulatory, protective and protective function of military law, without which the existence and development of modern Ukrainian army is impossible.

scholarly journals M. OMRLIANOVYCH-PAVLENKO’S FIGURE IN THE CONTEXT OF UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917–1921s

2018 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Andrii Sydorenko
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
General Observation ◽  
National State ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Revolution

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–192s gives us an opportunity to discover unknown pages of history and fi gures of that time. General Mykhaylo Omelianovych-Pavlenko was a talented military offi cer of the Russian imperial army, and with the beginning of the revolution actively took part in the Ukrainian national state formatuion. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Omelianovych-Pavlenko’s role in the processes of formation of the Ukrainian Cossacks was quite fruitful. His leadership of the UGA during the Polish-Ukrainian confrontation and the commander of the UNR Acting Army during the Winter Campaign could be reckoned as one of his greatest achievements. Thus, Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko played a signifi cant role in examining the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921s. The importance of this topic is connected to the historiography issues about general showed as individual person and didn’t correspond to the events of Ukrainian Revolution. The subject of this research is the military and social activities of Omelianovych-Pavlenko in 1917–1921s. Methods of research are empirical (the general observation of Omelianovych-Pavlenko’s activity, the comparison in various state structures of the revolution) and theoretical (the analysis of general’s activity at diff erent stages of the revolution and the synthesis of the received results in a single logical series). The results of the study make it possible to trace the general activities of the events of the revolution, determine his role in military formations, and clarify his attitude towards contemporary political fi gures and state entities

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