From the speech of Colonel-General Valery MANILOV, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Today, we all have the same goal and main task: to ensure that our country overcomes the crisis, enters the path of revival, and then flourishes, so that it enjoys the authority worthy of a great power in the international arena. A necessary component of such authority is military power, respected and powerful Armed Forces that can, as they say, cool down any hot head. So we have only one vector of application of forces: the interests of the Fatherland, which we serve. In this regard, we must first of all strive to ensure that a unified system of information support for military reform is developed and improved in the Armed Forces during their active transformation, and then in the entire military organization. Unified - in the sense of unity of principles, goals, unity of understanding of the tasks that it faces, and unity of overall results. Why is this especially important now? First of all, because an unprecedented information expansion has been launched against the Armed Forces. Its sharp edge is aimed at our basic moral values and guidelines, especially those that have always been one of the strongest sides of the Russian Army and the Russian army: camaraderie, combat brotherhood, collectivism. This work is carried out through a variety of information channels, not only through the media. It is veiled, and often carefully disguised, but it always means replacing the collectivist principle, the collectivist life position with an atomic, individualistic one, forming a disregard for the past, for the traditions of heroism, selflessness, dignity and honor, devaluing respect for military service and military duty. In terms of information, our overriding task is to stop this process by all means, including those inherent in the military press, to overcome the crisis of public consciousness, returning it to the bosom of true values created by ... Read more