...the study and development the man-military equipment system becomes increasingly urgent.

In the past decades, particularly in the 1960s-1970s, there were sufficiently many writings published in the named range of problems. (1) Although due to the conditions established that time the studies themselves were characterized by excessive ideologizing and politicizing of the problem that sometimes obscured the genuine complexity of the relationships of a man and military equipment, some valuable conclusions were made in those writings.

The significant thing is that they have reflected the first stage of the military technical revolution, which is associated with the realities of nuclear weapons employment. On the current stage of the military technical revolution the weapons of mass destruction have become primarily the means of deterrence. Armed struggle is characterized by the wide use of precision weapons, highly effective information technologies and telecommunication systems. It appears that the cardinal changes in soldiery have called for rethinking of the problem, for searching new approaches to the analysis of the man-military equipment relationships and for the more profound theoretical and methodological level of addressing the problem. Amidst the increasing trend of the joint commitment in the warfare process of different military services and fighting arms the unacceptability of monotechnic-only service rating (in terms of military scientific knowledge) of the man-at-arms in his systemic relationship with the military equipment becomes increasingly obvious.

All this presents new requirements, first and foremost, for the system of military scientific knowledge, for overcoming its structural insularity, and for development of multidisciplinary linkages and relationships. The situation is aggravated by the state of military science itself. S.B. Ivanov, RF Minister of Defense, pointed out that "general department insularity is, regrettably, in evidence in military science, as well as the existence of rigid internal boundaries between various military science schools and individual military scientific institutions, including also by the reference of affiliation to the different military services and fighting arms". (2)

At the present time in the military press one can encounter sufficiently many good materials of various kinds concerning the questions of...

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