Russian military profile

Jump to navigation Jump to search “Russian Army” redirects here. The primary responsibilities of the Ground Forces are the protection of the state borders, combat on land, the security of occupied territories, and the russian military profile of enemy troops. The training of troops for combat, on the basis of tasks determined by the Armed Forces’ General Staff.

The improvement of troops’ structure and composition, and the optimization of their numbers, including for special troops. The development of military theory and practice. The development and introduction of training field manuals, tactics, and methodology. The improvement of operational and combat training of the Ground Forces.

Seal of Ivan 4 1539 a. Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire. Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation 2. As the Soviet Union dissolved, efforts were made to keep the Soviet Armed Forces as a single military structure for the new Commonwealth of Independent States.

Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a decree forming the Russian Ministry of Defence on 7 May 1992, establishing the Russian Ground Forces along with the other branches of the military. Thirty-seven divisions had to be withdrawn from the four groups of forces and the Baltic States, and four military districts—totalling 57 divisions—were handed over to Belarus and Ukraine. Some idea of the scale of the withdrawal can be gained from the division list. The Ministry of Defence newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda published a reform plan on 21 July 1992. Later one commentator said it was “hastily” put together by the General Staff “to satisfy the public demand for radical changes.