MAIN DIRECTIONS OF IMPROVEMENT OF FUNCTIONING OF DISSERTATION COUNCILS OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Ongoing reform of the military high school in Russia raises a lot of questions. Even as today the Minister of Defense says that the word 'reform' should not be used. One should talk about creation of 'a new profile of the army'. Authors of the article, based on their personal positions, give a scientific assessment to one of the directions of reform implications, which is related to functioning of dissertation councils of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.