Apropos of preparation and buildup of mobilization manpower resources.
Military Thought › Vol. 12 Nbr. 3, May 2003
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Apropos of preparation and buildup of mobilization manpower resources.
Improving the preparation and buildup of mobilization manpower resources in the Russian Federation is emerging as one of the crucial present-day problems in the state and defense organizational development. This is due to the specifics of Russia's geostrategic and geopolitical status, its huge size and long borders, as well as the growth of migration processes among the population and an unfavorable demographic situation forecasted for the coming years. In addition, the military reform calls for a drastic reorganization of the arrangement that governs the preparation and buildup of mobilization manpower resources. It is also necessary to draw up some new approaches to mobilization's organization and conduct.
Quite logically, reductions in the army and the navy, accompanied by a conversion to the enlistment system, will entail greater amounts of preparation and buildup of militarily trained resources. Under the new circumstances, the former methods, which we used to deal with the task, grow unacceptable. This calls for a revision of a number of fundamental precepts in the mobilization work. Currently there is a clear discrepancy between the necessity of peacetime preparation and buildup of a militarily trained reserve resource on the one hand and the State's limited capabilities in providing the finance and materiel for the process, on the other. Studies point to a potential reduction in the militarily trained reserve resource numbers in connection with the cuts in the strength level of troops...See the full content of this document
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