If war comes tomorrow? : the contours of future armed conflict / Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareev ; translated by Yakov Vladimirovich Fomenko ; edited and with an introduction by Jacob W. Kipp
Introduction: the contours of future armed conflict and their interpreter: implications for national and international security policy / Jacob W. Kipp -- 1. Political and military-technical factors and armed struggle - future wars: sources and causes. 1. War and politics. 2. Old and new sources of military threats. 3. On the future of military-political blocs -- 2. Military-technical progress and its influence on the nature of armed struggle. 1. Technological progress in arms development. 2. Main trends of development within conventional weapons. 3. Arms reduction and its influence on the nature of armed struggle -- 3. Distinctive features of future armed struggle. 1. Nuclear weapons and armed struggle. 2. Methods of conducting operations and combat actions in conventional war -- 4. Prospects for military construction. 1. Professional armies or conscription? 2. Some questions of military control and organizational structure of the armed forces
5. Basic directions for perfection of training of the armed forces
