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.

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.

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.

When determining a country's national defense expenditures, it is common practice to compare this figure to its gross domestic product (GDP) so that the share of military expenditures can be seen and the resulting figures can be compared with similar results of other countries. Let us present data for 1999 on military expenditures and the size of the Armed Forces of Russia and the leading world powers with the largest military potential (from the latest published information).

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.

About the status of military futurology. If tomorrow is a war, then we will have to fight what we have today, at that level of combat training and development of military art that exist now and, most importantly, we will have to study on our own bloody mistakes. In other words, tomorrow's war was won or lost yesterday.

The given data on the size of the budget of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation [1] , their comparison with similar indicators of the leading military powers of the world should probably irrefutably indicate the current extreme weakness of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, since the allocated funds are clearly not enough even to maintain the life support of the army in terms of basic parameters.

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.

The loneliness of this book is far from a trivial fact. There were many genres of military literature in ancient times; these are “tactics” - manuals on the organization, armament and maneuver of troops; “polyorcetics”, dedicated to the art of siege and defense of fortresses; "hippics" or "hipparchics", addressed to cavalrymen; “strategicons” - instructions on the duties of strategists.

Type * Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Total personnel 1,365,800 (including 199,850 women, excluding Coast Guard); reserve military personnel - 1,211,500 people. US Strategic Command provides overall senior military leadership of the country's Navy and Air Force. The strategic intelligence center unites intelligence bases located in satellite countries, equipped with high-precision visual surveillance, electronic reconnaissance, detection of detonation from nuclear explosions, etc.