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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.