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The article discusses research about the importance of military training to enhance combat readiness of Russian Armed Forces. Topics mentioned include the level of military preparedness, ways on how to improve operational and mobilization training, list of tasks that military troops should focus on, and requirements in preparing troops for real combat.

The article offers the author's insights on the fifth generation of combat fighter aircraft pilots in the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Topics mentioned include the cost for the needed combat capability, the history and status of the F-35 and F-22 program, and the measuring of the combat capability where less time on the ground means more time in fighting. It also mentioned the ratio of crew pilot and aircrafts in a fighter squadron and the suggestion to use the original program.

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 concept and methodological basis for determining and evaluating the combat capability indicators of military units through potential combat readiness. It defines combat potential as technical equipment, military skill, and morale which comprise the components of Armed Forces. It asserts that weapons and materiel (WM), combat worthiness (CW), and combat readiness (CR) are the main elements in assessing the potential combat capabilities of military units.

The article presents the author's views on mobility in the present-day combat readiness system in Russia. He sees it as the essence of current dynamic processes in military affairs and as a notion to carry out strategic deployments. He states that mobile forces must be composed of attack, controlling and supporting subsystems. He believes that organizationally, large mobile strategic formation is good, and that the mobility factor in combat employment of Russia's armed forces will grow.

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 discusses the importance of strategic training among echelons of command and troops of the Russian Federation (RF) Armed Forces towards succeeding combat operations. The authors account on the Great Patriotic War and several combat activities that RF Armed Forces should learn. The author also a presentation in an attempt to alert RF defense capability in countering possible aggressions.

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.

Provides information on trends in military clothing and uniforms. Essential outward signs of pieces of military clothing and uniform; Details of information on the problems involved in the provision of clothing and related military gear; Consideration of improvement of military clothing as one of the important conditions in maintaining high combat readiness.

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.

The article evaluates the performance of the U.S. Army and Marine units in the Chosin Reservoir in Korea between November 27 and December 3, 1950. All the commanders of the U.S. Marine Division and its regiments were experienced in combat and saw action in World War II. However most of the commanders of the U.S. Army divisions and regiments had no such experience. The experienced senior Marine commanders took care of their men and their equipments in Chosin. The Army with inexperienced commanders lost all its equipment and almost half of its men. Army selected officers who were inexperienced in combat to command its units while Marine Corps assigned commands to officers who had previous combat experience.

The article focuses on the significance of strengthening combat readiness through controlled-aggression training in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force is training its personnel well in the Law of Armed Conflict, equips them properly and ensures their firearm proficiency. Defense training is considered to be the natural counterpart to the Air Force's Fit to Fight program. Mixed martial arts (MMA) prescribes drills to lower demonstrations and sparring matches.