From the first days of spring, exercises began in our capital for the numerous troops stationed there. The battalions, which had been training individually throughout the winter, were consolidated into regiments, and from early morning cannon fire was heard almost daily on Okhta and on the Preobrazhenskoye Field. “If you want peace,” the Romans said, “be prepared for war.” The justice of this saying has been recognized in all centuries by the most enlightened Monarchs and generals.

Not a single state, not a single society, not a single group will never abandon the highest manifestations of selflessness of their members in the name of salvation and preservation of the social whole. The cult of contradiction, philistinism, characteristic of a post -industrial society in a nearest degree than for the consumption society, is immediately replaced by the cult of heroic, when this society and its fundamental values ​​are in serious danger.

Part II. Domestic and marginalist b * Continuing the description of the worldview of Mikhail Golub, we also note the two other components: household and marginality. Houseness is the ability to masterfully and selflessly work for a family economy - a highly appreciated by the narrator and, of course, the skill inherent in him. In the Golubov descriptions of households, the characteristics of the unity of common sense and crafty ingenuity are extremely interesting.

Very little time has passed since May 2002, when the presidents of Bush and Putin signed a framework agreement on the long -term perspective of a reduction in strategic nuclear weapons of the two countries. Suddenly, a calm official reaction of Moscow to the US exit from the software agreement in 1972 caused ambiguous assessments both in Russia itself and abroad.

* Bureaucracy is characterized by addiction to a common cliche. This is especially true for government bureaucracy. The Ministry of Defense is now the most popular term “transformation”. Loren Thompson from the Lexington Institute recently outlined the difficulties associated with this concept, as follows: “The very popularity of the word in the corridors of the Pentagon suggests that everyone understands it differently.

Almost every new war for Russia begins with a clean sheet. There are a number of reasons that determine such a situation.

Many Russian politicians and military leaders, arguing about the difficulties of reforming the Russian army, love to refer to the American experience of transition to the armed forces of the Armed Forces, claiming that the United States took from 10 to 15 years. In fact, the Americans managed in less than five years.

The army should not be the way we are used to, but what we need. Charles de Gaulle Only the lazy does not speak of the lack of progress in the reform of the army. The reasons indicate that lack of money, then - the unsuccessful selection of generals for important positions in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff. However, the matter is completely different.

Any talk about the army and its tasks sooner or later comes to the famous Maxim General MacArthur: "The army exists in order to kill people and destroy things." Further reasoning is usually reduced to attempts to avoid the obvious aporia: whatever one may say, and human society defines itself, first of all, as what gives birth to people and creates things [1] . In this case, the army is an antisocial public institution.

At the end of the Soviet regime, I somehow suggested that Gorbachev create a temporary commission of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the development of the concept of national security. The intent was simple: to open the military budget, to see what really is in it. I then headed the permanent commission of the Committee of the Supreme Council on Science, Education, Culture and so on.

The 20th century, which recently ended, can rightfully be called the century of wars or the military century. It is the century of wars due to the fact that, perhaps for the first time in the history of mankind, military conflicts of varying scale and intensity took place every hour and everywhere on the globe.

The following text is not an attempt to objective study of the current state of the Russian system of higher (mostly - humanitarian) education. The author simply tried to summarize his 14-year life experience in this system, or rather, in its provincial version. Now the author is outside her; And this distance, both Temporary and geographical, helped him put in order everything that he thinks about the experience inside.

In the ordinary consciousness, the military intervention in civilian life is purely negative shade. The terms “junta” and “military dictatorship” are closely related to the idea of ​​the “triumph of reaction” and the conservation of obsolete social and economic relations. In fact, the phenomenon, called the “military revolution” * , often served as the opposite goals - the modernization of the economy and society.

The end of the Cold War and the radical changes in the international situation that occurred following this had the most direct impact on a decrease in the level of external threats of Russia's national security in the military sphere. The course of Russian foreign policy, laid by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, is very favored by these positive changes. Today it can be argued that no state in the world is an enemy of Russia.

Calling 14 “It suits them, they are interested in it”; “If anyone chooses, then this is by vocation”; “Wishes to be a military”; “See in this the meaning of their life”; “It is believed that this is their life path”; “They like them, the call of the heart”; "The soul asks them." Prestigious profession 10 “The military has always been in fashion and in high esteem”; “For the prestige of the profession”; “The prestige of the army, a person in the form is respected”; “The military was always