A. Sh. MANVELYAN, Colonel (Res.), Senior Research Fellow, Center for Research on Operational Art, NDRU, MOD, RA

SUMMARY

In recent decades, the struggle for spheres of influence and resources has significantly heightened, which has led to the emergence of new and intensification of previous threats to the military security of states. At the same time, the means of armed struggle are being qualitatively upgraded at an exceptionally rapid pace, engendering new forms and methods of their use. Hereupon, the requirements for the capability of troops to begin combat operations at a stated time and during them successfully carry out the tasks assigned to them, even if these troops are not involved in combat alert duty, do increase.

The main conditions for ensuring constant high combat readiness are: the level of personnel combat readiness; level of servicemen’s moral and psychological state; level of coherence and cohesion in military staffs; environmental factors, such as: international and public opinions, local population, the opponent, friendly unit personnel, geoclimatic and technical and engineering conditions; the commanders’ and headquarters’ readiness for upcoming tactical operations; serviceability status of authorized Armaments and Military and Special-Purpose Equipment and their up-to-dateness, etc.

Thus, the main task of domestic military science and military administration bodies as of today and for the near-term perspective should be consistent goal-oriented efforts in the sphere of the development of new methods and forms of tactical employment of military formations, transition of their results into the field of applied sciences and their scientific rationale, as well as their inclusion in guidance documents, in educational programs of military-training schools, and the practice of combat and operational training of troops.