ABSTRACT
The multidimensional and intricate nature of modern political-military strategy necessitates its constant, adequate and responsible evaluation by the public as well as academic and governmental experts. The major components of political-military strategy are: political goals of military activities; operational-strategic concepts; operational plans; tactical and technical requirements for weapons systems and military technologies; and the structure of armed forces. As Alexander A. Svechin, the outstanding Russian/Soviet military theoretician of the 1910s and 1920s, once noted, "strategy always struggles to emancipate itself from bad policy". Many Soviet experts argue that there is a gap between the political-military statements of American and NATO leaders and the military activities of the United States and some NATO countries. The rate of growth of military capabilities, including military industries, in the South is much faster than it is in the North, and many countries of the developed North bear a large responsibility for this.
