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The article discusses new approaches to the assessment and calculation of combat worthiness which is an indicator showing the combat potential of military units. It discusses combat readiness, or readiness to fight, which is another type of combat potential indicator. Furthermore, it states that the goal of assessing the combat readiness of military formations is to indicate the type of mission they are ready to accomplish at any time and up to what extent.

The article focuses on the analysis of the military activity in the context of military sciences using various methods of disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, and sociology. It points out that an approach to the military activity concept is not at all casual in society since it stems from the previous development stages of the native scientific idea. However, such interpretation of the relations between culture and military science is overcome as it lacks adequate conformity.

The article discusses the form of defense, a type of combat action in which one of the opposing sides realizes its combat capability. It is noted that defense operations are always a retaliatory reaction to initiative displayed by an advancing adversary. The ultimate objective of the defense will be neutralization of an attacking force. The main method of achieving defense objectives is depriving the adversary of its offensive capability.

The article presents a theoretical discussion of military logistics. The author begins by broadly defining logistics as the link between a state's general economic resources and its defense-military subsystems. He follows this with a discussion of both the Prussian and the French schools of logistics. He illustrates the importance of logistics in modern warfare with an analysis of some combat variables, then dwells on the phenomenon of the logistic vacuum, and describes the way military logistic systems function. Finally, he presents a case study analysis of the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, otherwise known as Operation Barbarossa.

The article informs that the core of the Russian Federation Defense Ministry's military-technical policy in the operation and maintenance of arms and military equipment (AME) is ensuring the combat readiness of AME as the key component of the combat system of the Armed Forces. It takes into account the general systemic and branch of service priorities of its development; introduces advanced and economical resource saving procedures and technologies for the operation, maintenance, and disposal of AME and new information and analysis systems and technologies to control these processes on different levels.

Discusses the role of full combat support in the preparation and implementation of measures designed to maintain high combat readiness and operational effectiveness of troops. Combat principle that has undergone much change in the past 100 years; Four main types comprised in full support; Factors predetermining the complex system of the combat principle.