Current issues of managing the military and economic activity of the State as part of strategic planning for the national development

Subject. The article deals with the management of resource supply and economic support to the military construction in terms of the national socio-economic development. Objectives. We evaluate whether it is possible to establish the uniform, structurally coherent system for industrial, S&T, budgetary, social and spatial planning of the military provisioning in the Russian Federation, considering the coercive growth of the national economy and the protection of the social stability and security. Methods. The study is based on the methodological approach that accounts for limited governmental resources and specific resources that could be allocated for key development activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Results. We discovered that a set of military construction activities is determined by carrying out the comparative analysis of the current and desired views of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, generating possible organizational and technological actions to switch from the current state to the required one, making the preliminary estimation of costs and time of such options and choosing the most appropriate one. The multivariate systems approach to evaluating the current state of the military complex and future development should be the basis for choosing the necessary volume of military production to ensure the promising future of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, since such an approach provides for comprehensive research into material production. Conclusions and Relevance. During the preparation of program documentation on the technological base, the military complex gets a real opportunity to agree the technological parameters both with developers and manufacturers and the economic block of the government, thus raising the quality of strategic planning and ensure its implementation as much as possible.

On Prospects of the Activity of Russian Military Courts in the Time of War within the Military Construction Context

The article considers the issues of military courts activity in the setting of the country getting ready for military actions. The article underlines the demand for the development of regulatory legal acts regulating the functioning of military courts at the stages of increased threat of military actions, i.e. in case of mobilization, imposing martial law, at the time of war. Problematic issues of the military courts activity in these periods and possible solutions are specified.

FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE XVIII-EARLY XIX CENTURY

the article deals with the formation of military criminal legislation in the Petrine period at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The influence of political and legal factors of state and military construction on changes in the system of military crimes and punishments for them in the specified period is revealed.

The concept of creating an automated information and computing complex for substantiating projects of programs and plans for the development of arms and means of radiation, chemical and biological protection

The new stage of military construction makes it necessary to apply more advanced approaches to the functioning of the program management system for the development of weapons in order to adequately respond to emerging problems related to the formation, implementation and adjustment of plans to strengthen the country's defense in accordance with the current military – political and economic conditions of their implementation. The trend towards a continuous increase in the volume of processed information, strengthening of requirements to the efficiency of the formation of projects, programmes and plans of military construction, as well as the accuracy of the models and methodologies used to predict outcomes of activities in the field of defence and security of the country, determine the relevance of a comprehensive automation of the processes of substantiation of prospects of development of arms and means of radiation, chemical and biological protection, which can be provided by the introduction of modem information technologies, advanced methods of data analysis and improved scientific and methodological support into the practice of software management of weapons development. The purpose of the research is to create an information and computing complex to support decision-making on improving the armament system of radiation, chemical and biological protection on the basis of modern information computer technologies and methodological support for the justification of programs and development plans of arms and means of radiation, chemical and biological protection. The work is based on the methods of database design and development, system analysis, relational algebra, and object- oriented approach to the formation of automated systems. In the course of the research conceptual provisions were developed, that define the circuit operation, the structure and content of the database information and computing complex, organization of the automated information and analytical work in support of decision-making in development of arms and means of radiation; chemical and biological protection

Analysis of Military Construction Cost Growth in USAF Major Defense Acquisition Programs

This study uses descriptive and inferential statistics to identify cost growth Analysis of Military Construction of military construction (MILCON) at the programmatic level, while bridging the gap between Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) estimates and actual project costs. Findings of this study aid the cost community with appropriate allocation of resources in developing these estimates. Overall, Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP) appear to experience more negative growth (cost savings) in MILCON estimates on reviewed SARs— typically less than 0.2% of the total program cost. SAR estimates became more accurate from the first to last SAR in comparison to the total MILCON programmed for all projects within a program. However, the last SAR’s median MILCON cost estimate was approximately $31 million underestimated on projects currently authorized and appropriated for MDAPs. Preliminary research was restricted to 32 programs of which only 10 had authorized and accessible projects for comparison. Initial results suggest building on this exploratory analysis.

Beyond the Plantation

Betty’s Hope functioned as a civic and military space as much as an economic space in the early Codrington years. As governors, Christopher Codrington II and Christopher Codrington III doubled as war leaders, employing their prior service and experience and funneling it into military construction. This chapter examines the role that the Codringtons played in fortifying Antigua in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The intersection of civic, military, and economic leadership expected of the Codringtons, are foregrounded by how local politics dominated the placement and funding of Antigua’s fortifications rather than as part of an imperializing project directed from Britain. Using the lens of locality, Waters shows how fortification of Antigua demonstrates how early planation society formed, as well as reinforcing the autonomy of the Antiguan government within the colonial system.

The Modern Arms Market of the Southeast Asia Countries: a Vector of Development and New Opportunities for Russia

The article highlights the main parameters of arms market conditions and development tendencies in Southeast Asia countries, which have traditionally attracted the attention of the world's leading producers and exporters of military products, including Russia. The most important international factor is the US-China competition in the region as well as the policy of the People’s Republic of China. In this context, the strategy of the countries pursues to have a restraining influence, what in military construction matters to take measures to modernize and update their weapons along with developing the national military industry. This creates new prospective opportunities for Russia as one of the leaders of the global arms market.

Materials of the Serpukhov Uezd Committee of the RCP(B) as a Source on the History of the Soviet Military Construction in 1918–19, on the “Stavka” Case on the “Conspiracy in the Field Staff” of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, and on the Reaction of the Bolshevik Leadership to the Explosion in Leontievsky Lane

The Central State Archive of the City of Moscow (TsGA of Moscow) holds documents that expand existing notions on the Soviet military construction of 1918-19, the formation of military intelligence and counterintelligence in Soviet Russia, and the “third wave” of mass Red terror in 1919. These documents are mostly found in the seemingly insignificant fond of the Serpukhov uezd committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Since in the autumn 1918 – summer 1919, the Field Staff of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic was located in Serpukhov and its military commissar, head of the registration department, and founder of the Soviet military intelligence, S. I. Aralov actively worked in the Serpukhov uezd committee, the committee protocols are of great importance for studying the formation of the Red Army and its special services. The documents on admission to the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and party registration of the Field Staff senior officials, brothers Alexei and Pavel Vasiliev contain new information on the personnel continuity in the Operational Department of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs of the RSFSR and the Field Staff. Protocols of the reports of the old Bolshevik A.A. Antonov at sessions of the Serpukhov uezd bodies of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) clarify the existing notions on the calamity of June 1919, which took place on the eve of the events associated with the arrest of the first Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces of the Republic J. J. V?cietis and some of his employees in July 1919, the cleaning of the Field Staff initiated by the old Bolshevik, longtime associate of Lenin S.I. Gusev who replaced S.I. Aralov at his posts. There are also documents containing information on the Bolshevik leadership reaction to the events related to the explosion in the building of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on September 25, 1919, when 12 Bolsheviks were killed and 55 received wounds of varying severity. These materials complement and correct data from the documents stored in the federal archives, in particular, in the Russian State Military Archive, which keeps documents on the history of the Red Army in 1918-41. For instance, it turns out that it was decided to arrest the bourgeoisie and other “counter-revolutionaries” with their subsequent imprisonment in a concentration camp created specifically for this purpose in Serpukhov district.

EVOLUTION RUSSIAN MILITARY CRIMINAL LEGISLATION AND ITS APPLICATION AT LATE XIX BEGINNING XX CENTURY

the article discusses the development of military criminal law and its application at the turn of the XIX - XX centuries. The influence of political and legal factors of state and military construction on changes in the system of war crimes and punishments for them in the specified period is disclosed.