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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
As promised a couple of lines about his impressions of past command-staff (command post exercise) and regimental tactical exercises (PTU) Defence Army, which participated in the fees for old time's sake, and I think for the last time. At the beginning seemed to have been verified mobilization plans, like going to mob. and other resources. and then decided to bring charges and to the participants by the scientist. With mobile plan, in Artsakh, as always, no problems - for an hour together staff officers, and on Artsakh within 2-4 hours 100% designed in parts.
To be honest at first was angry, because suddenly it turns out that cut down for a week of working rhythm. Then calmed down and philosophical thought that getting the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere and to assess what has changed over the past 10 years, which took the form below. As a result, sitting on the CBU and priced - "summed up" -):.
Write a lot of detail and do not get - a lot of cases so just try to throw a couple of strokes points - sort of a clue for the recovery of impressions in the future.
1. AO headquarters over the years began to work much more clearly and quickly, fulfilling all the necessary documents. Sometimes you can even speak of automaticity, where staff officers do not spend time and effort in itself a "mechanism" for planning, but have the opportunity and time to reflect on how best to address the tasks set before them.
2. All staff officers do not just know how to work with computers, but they have become an integral part of the planning process. And it was good to see that sitting behind a computer is no longer conscripts, computer scientists, but the officers themselves, and work out documents on the Armenian language. Smiled to myself and with quiet satisfaction that, in my memory and direct participation in their time were carried out two jumps.
First, when planning translated into computers and the renunciation of the mat, by which the organized fighting. Were highly Soviet staff officers with great experience, which does not need the cards and other "paper" to organize and hold b / d. Was the "commander", who knew how to make voice shelf to perform his plan, saying the language and the terminology, which is owned by his regimental commander. The result was what we got.
But after the war had to take the next step and recklessness of the belligerent armies to move to the army "polumirnogo time", which implied the Charter, the staff, "odergivanie and cast to form people with combat experience, fighting. Difficult and challenging period. We had to start preparing staff officers, who with apprehension and despair on their faces, often with obscenities were forced to sit next to the computer The operators owning and watch as the documents are produced. This is the "first leap".
The second, more important and complex, was associated with the transition from Russian into Armenian, which stretched for several years (do not forget that at the time of the Armenian military language was not simple, he just formed, and the situation saved a few good grammarians, scholars of the Armenian that were selected and brought to serve in the headquarters for this particular revolution).
And now I see how the officers, who once cautiously sat down next to the computers and tried to understand how the text will look in Armenian, today yourself sitting behind a computer and "xxxx" in Armenian - without straining, is not translating into head from Russian to Armenian. They think and plan in Armenian. Perhaps invisible to the officers themselves, but a huge breakthrough. As a result - now headquartered in a position to plan the operation several times faster than in the 90's, and the Armenian
3. Thus created the necessary prerequisites for the next jump and the transition to automated control systems that are already there and, hopefully, will be disbursed in the coming years that will speed up the planning process is not at times, but an order of magnitude. In any case, the Western experience says that's about it and what I could see clearly confirms these estimates.
And here again will be important not so much a technological leap, the emergence of new technologies and so on. But mastery of these technologies have not only staff officers, but all the command staff of the Defense Forces, when the commander in / h, in addition to all his duties, would feel like fish in water in a medium such complexes. We are talking about the changes, including in the military culture. It was a huge problem for the armed forces of the West, and now "in practice," see how IDF comes close to the same problems that she has every chance to overcome a lot faster, thanks to creative personnel of the AO, use that word.
4. Yes, most of all I liked the creativity of the staff officers of JSC, who are willing to retrain, learn new technologies and so on. And this is connected not with the "creativity of the Karabakh Armenians'" (which actually takes place), but hard necessity. Closeness is not conditional, but quite real numerically superior enemy, does not forget to stay in a comfortable state of mind.
5. The second big problem is a generational change. While that decision-making positions, headquarters of JSC are personalities who passed the war as they have real combat experience, and thanks to his youth were able to make some qualitative leaps in its development, allowing Defense Forces to go through several transformations, each of them to other armies is painful institutional and cultural problems and challenges. Here they were overcome in one fell swoop, jump ability which provides real combat experience and the old Soviet school, that is a good general knowledge base, which allowed officers to quickly adapt and explore new horizons. Now at 5, okay 10 years, they have to change the new officers, which are the result of a purely Armenian system of military and general education. Come the young officers, for whom reached the level of this natural and usual state of the army. This new generation that is not the last war, not standing in front of the necessity of any jumps and does not know how to behave in times of crisis, when to peremahivat gap, regardless of its width. Will they be willing to pick up the achievement of the fathers, "not to drop the" Armenian army? Honestly I do not know. Attended the exercise, several young officers. Tried to look closely to him, to understand what and how. I admit - nothing could not see. Maybe teaching is not the mode where you can understand this kind of thing.
6. But there were flaws, asks the impatient reader, who gets to the end of this post. Certainly were, but obviously that is I will not paint them -):. In summary, the inherent flaws of the Armenian society and the Armenian army. The army, being an integral part of society can not suffer from her illness. Authoritarian, closed, rigidly hierarchical structure and the nature of the Army contributes to their prosperity. Attempts to "democratize" greater "openness", making "civilian control" and so on. only add to the overall picture, not contributing to cure, and that's another big topic.
To be honest at first was angry, because suddenly it turns out that cut down for a week of working rhythm. Then calmed down and philosophical thought that getting the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere and to assess what has changed over the past 10 years, which took the form below. As a result, sitting on the CBU and priced - "summed up" -):.
Write a lot of detail and do not get - a lot of cases so just try to throw a couple of strokes points - sort of a clue for the recovery of impressions in the future.
1. AO headquarters over the years began to work much more clearly and quickly, fulfilling all the necessary documents. Sometimes you can even speak of automaticity, where staff officers do not spend time and effort in itself a "mechanism" for planning, but have the opportunity and time to reflect on how best to address the tasks set before them.
2. All staff officers do not just know how to work with computers, but they have become an integral part of the planning process. And it was good to see that sitting behind a computer is no longer conscripts, computer scientists, but the officers themselves, and work out documents on the Armenian language. Smiled to myself and with quiet satisfaction that, in my memory and direct participation in their time were carried out two jumps.
First, when planning translated into computers and the renunciation of the mat, by which the organized fighting. Were highly Soviet staff officers with great experience, which does not need the cards and other "paper" to organize and hold b / d. Was the "commander", who knew how to make voice shelf to perform his plan, saying the language and the terminology, which is owned by his regimental commander. The result was what we got.
But after the war had to take the next step and recklessness of the belligerent armies to move to the army "polumirnogo time", which implied the Charter, the staff, "odergivanie and cast to form people with combat experience, fighting. Difficult and challenging period. We had to start preparing staff officers, who with apprehension and despair on their faces, often with obscenities were forced to sit next to the computer The operators owning and watch as the documents are produced. This is the "first leap".
The second, more important and complex, was associated with the transition from Russian into Armenian, which stretched for several years (do not forget that at the time of the Armenian military language was not simple, he just formed, and the situation saved a few good grammarians, scholars of the Armenian that were selected and brought to serve in the headquarters for this particular revolution).
And now I see how the officers, who once cautiously sat down next to the computers and tried to understand how the text will look in Armenian, today yourself sitting behind a computer and "xxxx" in Armenian - without straining, is not translating into head from Russian to Armenian. They think and plan in Armenian. Perhaps invisible to the officers themselves, but a huge breakthrough. As a result - now headquartered in a position to plan the operation several times faster than in the 90's, and the Armenian
3. Thus created the necessary prerequisites for the next jump and the transition to automated control systems that are already there and, hopefully, will be disbursed in the coming years that will speed up the planning process is not at times, but an order of magnitude. In any case, the Western experience says that's about it and what I could see clearly confirms these estimates.
And here again will be important not so much a technological leap, the emergence of new technologies and so on. But mastery of these technologies have not only staff officers, but all the command staff of the Defense Forces, when the commander in / h, in addition to all his duties, would feel like fish in water in a medium such complexes. We are talking about the changes, including in the military culture. It was a huge problem for the armed forces of the West, and now "in practice," see how IDF comes close to the same problems that she has every chance to overcome a lot faster, thanks to creative personnel of the AO, use that word.
4. Yes, most of all I liked the creativity of the staff officers of JSC, who are willing to retrain, learn new technologies and so on. And this is connected not with the "creativity of the Karabakh Armenians'" (which actually takes place), but hard necessity. Closeness is not conditional, but quite real numerically superior enemy, does not forget to stay in a comfortable state of mind.
5. The second big problem is a generational change. While that decision-making positions, headquarters of JSC are personalities who passed the war as they have real combat experience, and thanks to his youth were able to make some qualitative leaps in its development, allowing Defense Forces to go through several transformations, each of them to other armies is painful institutional and cultural problems and challenges. Here they were overcome in one fell swoop, jump ability which provides real combat experience and the old Soviet school, that is a good general knowledge base, which allowed officers to quickly adapt and explore new horizons. Now at 5, okay 10 years, they have to change the new officers, which are the result of a purely Armenian system of military and general education. Come the young officers, for whom reached the level of this natural and usual state of the army. This new generation that is not the last war, not standing in front of the necessity of any jumps and does not know how to behave in times of crisis, when to peremahivat gap, regardless of its width. Will they be willing to pick up the achievement of the fathers, "not to drop the" Armenian army? Honestly I do not know. Attended the exercise, several young officers. Tried to look closely to him, to understand what and how. I admit - nothing could not see. Maybe teaching is not the mode where you can understand this kind of thing.
6. But there were flaws, asks the impatient reader, who gets to the end of this post. Certainly were, but obviously that is I will not paint them -):. In summary, the inherent flaws of the Armenian society and the Armenian army. The army, being an integral part of society can not suffer from her illness. Authoritarian, closed, rigidly hierarchical structure and the nature of the Army contributes to their prosperity. Attempts to "democratize" greater "openness", making "civilian control" and so on. only add to the overall picture, not contributing to cure, and that's another big topic.
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