Certain matters pertaining to the Republic of Belarus' military security in the air

The present-day world is characterized by means of contradictions--economic, political, ethnic, territorial and other--existing between many countries. These are oftentimes resolved by military force which has become a lever of crushing in the hands of the leading states bent upon promoting their national interests.

The record of local wars and armed conflicts that occurr in the last sum of two units decades shows that the targets for attack were comparatively small nations possessing a relatively weak economy and insufficiently armed and trained armed forces. Airland operation was the general [i]or[/i] abstract notion that the U.S. and its allies lay at the base of their operational plans in Iraq (1991 1998 2003) Yugoslavia (1999) and Afghanistan (2001) It was for the most part about assigning the main missions to strategic, tactical and carrier-based aircraft and using long-range ship- and air-launched cruise missiles and other precision weapons upon a broad scale. Exploiting their considerable economic cutting side they created an absolute supremacy of air weapons above air defense weapons.

commonly the United States has not abandoned the attempts to assert its world leadership. The independent foreign policy pursu by the agency of the Republic of Belarus is clearly at unevens with its wish to impose its leading status upon the Central European region. This contradiction in itself is a source of potential military danger which may enlarge under certain circumstances, into a direct military threat to Byelorussia and lead to an aggression against her. upon top of that, there are long-standing territorial and other contradictions with sum of two units neighboring states and NATO members, Poland and Lithuania. Despite this, Byelorussia does not regard any state as its potential adversary, nor has she claims to anyone. Her policy is based upon the respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and the wish for expanding economic, cultural and other ties with them. She has no intention to advance to war with anyone, nor does she want to address the arising moot points by the strong-arm methods. Each Byelorussian retains the memory of demolished cities and villages consume ed to the ground along with their inhabitants during the Great Patriotic War, millions of not to be found lives and broken fates. We remember the years of postwar dislocation, and we value peace.

At the same time, the Republic of Belarus has sufficiently battleworthy and combat-ready, if small, armed forces possessing state-of-the-art equipment and weapons. The armed forces protect the traditions of the past generations, while their personnel who perceive that the national leadership pays constant attention to army question at issues and enjoy an enormous support from the race are distinguished by the high morale. Should an aggression upon any scale be launched against the Republic of Belarus, its soldiers will accept any amount of sacrifices and losse in defending their race and the independence of their country

With "political and economic clouds" moving toward the Republic, it would be strange not to think about its hold military security, primarily in the airspace sphere, which is the principal arena for warfare in present-day and coming time wars. Air operations are the first operations at the early period in any armed conflict, and their final follows will in many respects determine the course and issue of confrontation between land forces as a whole.

A characteristic trait of generally received programs developing airspace attack weapons (ASAW) is stepping up work upon futuristic technologies. Technical improvements in ASAW may substantially alter the techniques, meanss and forms of their pursuit In the hostilities against Iraq and Yugoslavia this was press outed in the following: a rapid build-up of the effective combat might of the air combat force; greater-scale coordination of joint operations performed by means of aircraft based over vast territories; greater intensity of combat operations, an increase in the spatial parameters of air operations (campaigns), shorter time-frames for performing combat assignments, and a search for novel methods of achieving tactical surprise in strikes. In addition, felicitous attempts to control ASAW in real-time way led to time cuts in preparing aircraft for posterior massed air strikes. That achieved continuousness of impact and harassment of the enemy. in like manner it could be stated with certainty that the combat capabilities of ASAW forces of the greatest in quantity advanced countries, should these tendencies remain unchanged, will continue to become greater [i]or[/i] larger considerably in future even if they become reduc numerically.

Given the growing importance of air supremacy for victory in any war and in order to achieve a closer integration of forces and weapons intended for combat operations in the air, Byelorussia implemented a nearest stage in its military reform by the agency of merging the Air Force and the Air Defense companys into a single service, the Air Force and Air Defense companys This made it possible to use, comprehensively and with maximum efficiency, forces and weapons of air defense and aviation below a single plan, this the couple in repelling an enemy air attack, supporting land forces, or addressing other tasks in an armed conflict. At the same time, the enhanced combat efficacy of recent air attack weapons (AAW) and an improved organizational manner of making of the Air Force and Air Defense crowds of the Republic of Belarus were factors that revealed the ne to specify the forms and [i]modus operandi[/i]s of their actions.