Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation: main provisions

The military doctrine of the Russian Federation is the main political and legal document in which the official views of the state on ensuring and maintaining the country's military-political and economic security are clearly systematized, detailed and strictly declared. It also indicates methods for achieving these goals.

The military doctrine of the Russian Federation is the normative and organizational and administrative basis for reforming the armed forces, their planned technical re-equipment and other necessary measures to maintain the proper level of combat capability of the Russian Armed Forces.

During the twentieth century, the very notion of military doctrine underwent very significant changes. Initially, this document was of a purely military nature. But with a change in the geopolitical situation in the world, the military doctrine of the Russian Federation from a purely military plane has largely shifted to the political sphere. This document includes a preamble and three main sections.

The preamble gives a characterization and formalizes the very concept of military doctrine, and describes the legal basis of the document. Here it is also indicated how other political doctrines are correlated with this conceptual document. The preamble also emphasizes the purely defensive orientation of the Russian state. In this regard, the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation combines the position of a consistent and unswerving commitment to peaceful coexistence with a firm and clear determination to protect national interests, which guarantees the country's military, political and economic security. The legal framework of the document is the Constitution of the Russian Federation with various regulatory legal acts and international obligations of the state.

The implementation of the provisions of this document is carried out through a single centralized administrative and military administration. The same objectives, according to the doctrine, should serve as complexes of political, diplomatic, socio-legal, economic, information, military and other measures. In other words, the Doctrine focuses attention on the fact that the achievement of complete security of the country is possible only with the harmonious work of all the institutions of the state as a single organism.

The first section of the document is devoted to military-political bases. In particular, it indicates the fundamental factors of the military-political situation on the planet. The military doctrine of the Russian Federation notes a reduction in the danger of the onset of a large-scale military conflict, but at the same time the intensification of various manifestations of extremism and separatism on national, ethnic or religious grounds. In addition, the increase in the number of local and civil wars, armed conflicts, aggravation of information confrontation in the world is underlined.

The second section of the document reveals the military-strategic directions and the foundations of the Doctrine. It also classifies modern wars and armed confrontations into large-scale, local and regional ones. And also by the types of deterrents used. Particularly stressed is the steady trend towards regional arms build-up, including mass destruction. It is considered legitimate to use the Russian armed forces to repel external aggression, internal threats and suppress unconstitutional activities, and to solve problems in full compliance with the norms of the Constitution. The main forms of using the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Doctrine, are counter-terrorism, peacekeeping and strategic operations.

And in the third and last section, the basic principles of a military-economic nature are officially fixed. The main goal of the economic supply of the armed forces is the satisfaction of the needs and requirements of the army in material and financial resources. The priority direction here is the full and timely material and financial support for the planned construction of military facilities, combat and mobilization training of troops, financing in full the development and improvement of new types of weapons, special equipment and others.