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Voroshilov Academy Lectures - We are
beginning to post our material based on the lectures attended at the General
Staff Academy of the Soviet Union in name of Marshal Voroshilov. These include
direct translations of original lectures, summaries, on which we prepared
lectures for courses given to the U.S. Army and related materials from lectures
given at the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School, National Defense University and Ft.
Leavenworth, BCTP. The original material was copied by Col. Dastagir Wardak
during his attendance at the academy in the 1970's and kept secure in
Afghanistan until he came to the United States in 1980's. Much, but not all, of
this material was published by the National Defense University in three
volumes. Those volumes contain much more discussion of theoretical and
doctrinal comcepts related to Military Strategy, while the content of this
series has been developed for the instruction of US Army officers who will
'play Red' in war games or will study Soviet staff and commanders' practical
planning methods.
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 The
table of contents of Volume I of the 3 - The Voroshilov Lectures: Materials
from the Soviet General Staff Academy, published by the National Defense
University
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Index to materials
as we prepare them - many more than listed below including sample
calculations methods, on division planning and the course on operational
planning
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Description of the Voroshilov
Academy of Soviet General Staff
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List of graphics for
lectures with much expansion to come
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List of planning maps and
overlays prepared for BCTP and lectures and now donated to the Map Division of
the Library of Congress
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Questions and discussion of
Soviet views on various topics
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Military space - Concepts and
principles for employment of space
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Strategic Air - Employment of
Air Forces in Strategic Operations
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Duty - Summary of Soviet duties of
staff officers
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Staff Procedures - Summary of
Soviet Staff Procedures described in various lectures
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Military Science - General
concepts of Marxist-Leninist Military Science
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Voroshilov Lecture 11 Air
Force in Strategic Operations of TVD
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Voroshilov Lecture 14
Organization of Civil Defense
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Voroshilov Lecture 15 Role of
Economics in War
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Planning at the Division level
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Division Planning Documents
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Division Instructions and
Orders
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Division Army Initial
Instructions to Eighth MRD - example document
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Division Calculations in
Division Planning Process
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Division Sequence of
Organization of Reconnaissance
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Planning at the Army level
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Chapter I - 2 - Army -
Organization and Equipment of Combined Arms Army
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Chapter I - 3 - Army Offensive
Operations
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Chapter I - 4 - Army Defensive
Operations
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Chapter I - 5 - Army in Long
Distance March
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Chapter I - 6 - Artillery in
Support of Army Operations
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Chapter I - 6 - Employment of
Artillery Troops at Front and Army Levels - outline
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Chapter I - 7 - Employment of
Rocket Troops at Front and Army Level - outline
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Chapter I - 8 - Air Defense
Troops in Army and Front - outline
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Chapter I - 8 - Air Defense in
Army Operations
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Chapter I - 9 - Combat
Employment of Air Forces at Front and Army Level - outline
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Chapter I - 10 - Combat
Employment of Engineer Troops at Front and Army Level - outline
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Chapter I - 10 - Combat
Employment of Engineer Troops in Army Offensive Operations
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Chapter I -11 - Combat
Employment of Signal Troops at Front and Army Level - outline
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Chapter I -12 - Combat
Employment of Reconnaissance Troops at Front and Army Level - outline
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Chapter I - 13 - Rear Services Support of Troops at Front and
Army Level
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Chapter I - 14 - Combat
Employment of Chemical and Chemical Defense Troops at Front and Army
Level - outline
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Chapter I - 15 - Action of Rear
Services Troops at Front and Army Level - outline
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Chapter I -15a - Rear Services
in Support of Army Actions
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Chapter I - 16 - Command and
Control of Troops at Army and Front Level
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Operational Directive - Sample
Operational Directive of 8th Guards Army -
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Planning at Soviet Front level
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Chapter II-1b - Organization of
Front Headquarters;
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Chapter II - 2 - Front in
Offensive Operations
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Chapter II - 3 - Front in
Defensive Operations
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Chapter II - 4 - Rocket Troops in
Front Operations
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Chapter II - 5 - Combat
Employment of Artillery in Front Offensive Operations
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Chapter II - 6 - Air Defense of
Front and Army
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Chapter II - 7 - Troop Control
System of Front Aviation
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Chapter II - 7a -
Organization of Troop Control of Front Air Defense Troops and Means in
Offensive Operation
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Chapter II - 8 - Engineer
support of Front Operations
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Chapter II-8b - Engineer Support
of Front
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Engineer Planning - A sample of
the planning table for engineer operations for army and divisions during
conduct of the attack
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Chapter II - 11 -
Radioelectronic Warfare in Front Operations
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Chapter II - 12 - Observations On
The Control And Employment Of Nuclear, Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons
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Chapter II - 13b - Front
Rear Services Support in Combat Operations
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Chapter II - 14 - Combat
Support and Service Troops
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Chapter II - 16 - Combat
Employment of Signal Troops in Front Offensive Operations
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Calculations - a general summary
of the calculations the Russian officer does during the planning process.
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Exercise in division
calculations
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Maskirovka - Lecture from the Academy -
Instructor outline instructor's outline
prepared for courses for US Army - Course outline - List of
VGraphs for courses
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Maskirovka
reference - an excellent annotated bibliography prepared by U. S. Air Force
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Command and Staff Handbook - We also wrote
this handbook to summarize all the Soviet material for students: Of course it
is 25 years old now and describes Soviet military thinking, but much of the
basic concepts remain the same now. A printed copy of the handbook is
available.
Much of this content for division and lower formations is based on lectures
from the Frunze Academy and other Soviet military manuals obtained by both Col.
Dastagir Wardak and Col. Ali Jalali during their attendances at that Academy.
The sections above and in the handbook on Russian methods for calculations of
many variables during both planning and execution of operations relied, then,
on nomograms and formulas. Now they will use computers and hand held devices
with equations build in.
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Chapter One -General
Considerations for Troop Control
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Chapter Two - Division and
Regiment -
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Chapter Five - Norms and
Calculations - very large extensive chapter with many nomograms and examples
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Chapter Six - Troop control
documents - very large file describes planning procedures and documents for
division, army and front.
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We also have a series of lectures on staff procedures and planning of
artillery. The Russians have always relied strongly on artillery.
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Operations lesson 1 -
Organization of Hqs and Duties of Staff
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Operations lesson 2 -
Interaction of Commander and Chief of Operations
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Operations lesson 3 - Tactical
and Operational Calculations
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Operations lesson 4 -
Preparation of Plans, Maps and other Documents
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Operations lesson 5 - Practical
exercise in Front Planning
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Operations lesson 7 - Practical
exercise in Division Planning - part 1
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Artillery principles -
Principles of Contemporary Employment of Artillery in Offensive Operations:
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Air Assault - Estimate For Air
Assault
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Cryptographic -
Cryptographic Security Instructions
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NDU conference - We add here
these notes of meeting with Russian General Slipchenko at NDU.
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