Analysis of troops groupings in modern local wars and armed conflicts

Anton Tkachenko,Anton Nykytenko,Ruslan Cherevko,Aleksandr Yvashchuk

doi:10.33445/sds.2021.11.1.11

Abstract

The results of the analysis of recent military conflicts convincingly show that the forms and methods of the armed forces application are changing and improving. Scientific and technological progress, the rapid development of information technology, the growing role of high-precision weapons, increasing the effectiveness of intelligence, intensive automation of command and control systems change the nature of modern warfare and are having a steady impact on operational arts, including the need to further improve management theory. In modern military conflicts, new trends in the development of an armed warfare have emerged, which affect the construction of the armed forces, the development of forms and methods of their application. At the same time, there are deviations from the classical views on the military operation execution. The article presents some features of modern conflicts, shows that the main task in modern wars is to gain and maintain information superiority over the enemy through the use of a single information and communication space by the troop’s groupings.

Highlights

During the local wars and military conflicts of the last decade, considerable combat experience has been accumulated
The analysis indicates that the military-technical capabilities of countries, the quantity and quality of their weapons and military equipment significantly affect the preparation and methods of warfare, the course and outcome of the combat activities
The grouping of troops in military conflicts in recent decades has generally been created in advance, in peacetime or in a special period, and the full deployment and reinforcement has been created at the beginning and during the armed conflict

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Introduction

During the local wars and military conflicts of the last decade, considerable combat experience has been accumulated. The armed warfare has acquired a large-scale, aerospace and ground highly maneuverable features with simultaneous combat operations on land, in the air, space and at sea with the use of aviation, missile weapons, space assets, high-precision weapons (HPW), electronic warfare and electronic warfare control systems, special forces and airborne assault troops (Manachinskii A., 2005; Mihajlov A., 2004; Myasnikov V.). The prototype of such conflicts is the war in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, the conflict in Chechnya. Another fundamental difference between this war and previous local wars is that, for the first time, the latest forms of the HPW were used on a large scale

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