Shlykov Vitaly

№ 2, 2001

• Russian Army and the World Experience: One Hundred Years of Solitude

  The article moves and substantiates the thesis that the Russian army found itself in the outskirts of the development of the military organization. This situation is inherited from the Soviet army and even from the Russian prerevolutionary army. The author is against thoughtless copying of foreign experience. At the same time he believes that the main postulates of military professionalism are of universal nature, and do not depend on national borders. The article dwells upon such factors as the role of the non-commissioned officers’ corps, the principle of territorial recruiting, the adequate structure of the high military commandment.

  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2001-20-2-5-43

  Pages: 5-43