MODERN WEAPONS OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE OF THE ARMIES OF THE ALLIANCE AND "BLOODLESS" WARS
The article is based on the experience of combat use of NATO armed forces in modern armed conflicts and information about the development of foreign military experts considered modern means of armed struggle of the armies of the Alliance. Along with the development of increasingly powerful means of destruction, the search for ways to reduce material damage and loss of life in military conflicts continues. The efforts of foreign researchers and enterprises of the military-industrial complex are aimed at the development of a fundamentally new type of weapon designed for the temporary failure of control systems, people and equipment, the disorganization of military-economic production, as well as providing a powerful moral and psychological impact on the troops and the population in order to break their will to resist. In force such his features of it gained the general name “non-lethal” or “bloodless” weapons. Its varieties currently include information, electromagnetic, laser, acoustic, biological and other weapons. Among them, some western experts also include environmental weapons, although they have a dramatic negative impact on nature and are harmful to human health. The author criticizes the concept of “humanization” of military conflicts. The article concludes that, in general, the new concepts of power confrontation are not a new concept for the Russian military art. However, the novelty of the American approach to the theory of confrontation lies in the complex use of military-theoretical developments, technological advances in the field of weapons and economic power of NATO countries.