On November 29, the head of the Independent Center for Defense Studies T.Hovhannisyan took part in the regular annual conference organized by the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST, Moscow) "Ogarkov Readings", named in honor of the outstanding innovator of strategic art, Marshal of the USSR N. Ogarkov (his views are cited in the ICDS paper https://www.pahak.org/en/publications/WAVES-OF-NETWORK-CENTRIC-WARS).

Conference topics:

• Introduction: In memoriam of Konstantin Makiyenko – Ruslan Pukhov (Director, CAST);
• Vasily Vereshchagin’s service for Russian Empire Military - Maria Yatskova;
• German arms exports: political and economic aspects - Sergey Denisentsev (CAST), Uwe Klussmann (independent expert, Director of the Klußmann Kommunikation und Consulting);
• Main presentation: The Red Army and the war in the European Theater in the 1920s-1930s - Alexey Krivopalov (historian, Senior Researcher at RAS, IIEIR);
• New Era: how commercial satellite images of the grouping change the modern war - Anton Lavrov (military expert, columnist of the "Izvestia" newspaper), Vladimir Ivanov (Commander of the Military Space Force (1992-1996), Colonel General (Ret.));
• Composition and operation of Russian and Ukrainian artillery in the course of a special military operation - Yuri Lyamin (Senior Researcher, CAST), Vasily Burenok (President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, Major General)
• Panel discussion: The evolution of tactics from the beginning of the XIX century to the present day - moderator: Yuri Baluyevsky, participants: R. Pukhov, A. Krivopalov, T. Hovhannisyan, Viktor Murakhovsky (editor-in-chief of the “Arsenal of the Fatherland” magazine);
• Ukrainian syndrome and international experience in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder - Olga Kulik, Alexander Zhurkov.

During the panel discussion, which was led by the Head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (2004-2008), Army General (Ret.) Yu. Baluyevsky, T. Hovhannisyan presented views on the issues of training, cohesion and equipping of tactical detachments.

Photo report: https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4620251.html

The conference materials will be published upon receipt.