Deputies consider Doctrine of Peace

4 апреля 2016

Andrei Krivosheev. The doctrine is actively discussed in the Security Council, and is dictated by the modern realities. The doctrine updates the list of threats to the national interests and security, provides modernization strategy for the army, increasingly involves collective security models of CSTO and the OSCE.

As the one of the main principles of the art of war: "Wars are lost by generals who are preparing for the past rather than the future conflicts." In our history, this is the cavalry and the "trench" defense of the First World against tanks and Blitzkrieg, WWII fronts against mobile groups of insurgents and terrorists in Afghanistan and Chechnya and finally "bloodless" power system against velvet and color revolutions.

All of it makes the foresight, strategy and development of the defense system so necessary.

New threats and challenges include: division of the world by superpowers, the domestic chaos and armed conflicts from the Maghreb to the Ukraine and Karabakh, terrorism, which does not recognize any borders, the flood of migration in the EU countries and the expansion of information on new channels. The so-called "hybrid warfare" is in action.

Today deputies approved the draft law in the first reading.

Major innovations include deep modernization, not quantitative, but qualitative. Super-quick response, elimination of information attacks.

An important nuance is that new military doctrine does not inflate the defense budget. In Belarus, it remains one of the smallest budgets in Europe and worldwide. But it is effective. Only target costs and reasonable prudence.

Andrei Ravkov, the Defense Minister of Belarus: "The draft military doctrine does not bear any additional burden."

According to the new Military Doctrine, Belarus regards no country in the world as its enemy or even a potential enemy. The military doctrine would allow greater use of collective regional security forces - from the Union State and the Collective Security Treaty Organization to the OSCE and the UN.