Having gained a certain amount of trust in the troops, we consider it necessary to continue working without waiting for the Supreme Council to find time to consider this issue at the session. Moreover, the alternative version prepared by the USSR Ministry of Defense commission in August 1990 is classified as "Top secret" and, according to preliminary information, is not intended for wide discussion.

We suggest that you take part in the consideration and discussion of certain issues of the military reform program, including those included in the title of the article. We do not pretend to be the ultimate truth, especially since we do not give ready-made recipes. Our task is more modest: to pose the problem, look at it more broadly, and identify possible approaches to solving the issues that arise today in this most important area of our society's life.

In our opinion, the reform of 1924-1925 deserves the most attention in the USSR. In the context of the stabilization of the international situation and the restoration of the economy destroyed by the war, the Red Army was reduced 10 times from December 1920 to the summer of 1924 (from 5.5 million to 562 thousand people). But quantitative reductions had to be compensated by qualitative transformations.

Based on the survey, in February 1924, it was decided to radically update the military leadership and carry out fundamental military reform, and a month later, on March 25, 1924, a new composition of the revolutionary Military Council was approved, and the military leadership was replaced. This is how military reform was initiated, first under the leadership of L. Trotsky, then M. Frunze, who believed that a way out could be found in combining a cadre army with a militia.

Many years have passed since the last reform in the armed forces, and we are once again returning to the past, looking for solutions to the problems there. What conclusions can be drawn from analyzing the current situation?

Firstly, there is no external military threat to our country in the conventional sense. There are dangers that need to be reduced by using primarily political, nonviolent means. We have nuclear weapons. There is an obvious need to reduce it to a level that would be sufficient to deter any aggressive intentions towards our country. Despite the persistence of some dangers, including accidents, it can be concluded that there are relatively favorable external conditions for reforms.

Secondly, security cannot be reduced only to military aspects, as is our custom now. This approach can also be seen in the Policy Statement of the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU, when three ministries — the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB - are charged with ensuring security. Apparently, the time has come (and the experience of other civilized countries confirms this) to consider security as a set of measures taken by the state and society to ensure the interests of the individual, society and, last but not least, the state in all major spheres of their life: economics, ecology, national and demographic relations, information and psychological sphere, religion, military and political sphere, etc. However, the first steps taken only last year towards the practical implementation of this provision have met and are meeting strong opposition from the "triple alliance" of the military-industrial bureaucracy on a party basis. And here, with the decorative nature of the union parliament, one can rather expect visible changes from the work of the authorities of the sovereign republics with the active assistance of public structures. The experience of other countries may be interesting and useful for us in this regard.

Thirdly, the system of government has always predetermined the model of the Armed Forces and everything related to them. In the 1930s, a totalitarian regime system developed, which predetermined both the militarization of the economy and the preparation of the army for war. Analyzing the current situation, we can conclude that we never got out of the war, having entered it in 1941. Here are the special 1xBet Pakistan bonus code and promotions available for sports betting bonuses by using exclusive 1xbet promo code pakistan enter our bonus code for 1XBET in the registration form and claim exclusive bonuses for casino and sports betting. Players in Pakistan can use this code when opening your account to get a bonus of up to 36,000 PKR or $/€130.