Armiya Rossii. 11 poteryannyh let

Inogda Aleksandra Gol'ca, zhurnalista, pishuschego ob armii, nazyvayut voennym ekspertom. Eto, konechno, nepravil'no, no ukazyvaet na suschestvovanie problemy. Problema zaklyuchaetsya v tom, chto v Rossii do sih por ne suschestvuet shkoly nezavisimoy voennoy ekspertizy. V techenie desyatiletiy vsya informaciya ob armii i ee buduschem razvitii sostavlyala monopoliyu Ministerstva oborony i glasnomu obsuzhdeniyu ne podlezhala. I dazhe seychas, kogda vot uzhe neskol'ko let ne zatihayut ozhestochennye publichnye debaty o tom, kakie Vooruzhennye Sily nuzhny strane, pozicii bol'shinstva uchastnikov etih sporov opredelyayutsya ili tem, kakoe mesto oni zanimayut v voennoy ierarhii, ili tem, v kakoy moment i po kakoy prichine oborvalas' ih voennaya kar'era. Mezhdu tem imenno seychas obschestvu pozarez nuzhno yasnoe ponimanie armeyskih problem. Ono neobhodimo, chtoby reshit', nuzhna li strane mobilizacionnaya sistema, skroennaya po sovetskomu obrazcu, mozhet li professional'naya armiya byt' deshevle, chem prizyvnaya, skol'ko nuzhno tratit' na obnovlenie vooruzheniy. I resheniya eti dolzhno prinyat' samo grazhdanskoe obschestvo. Sredi generalov mnozhestvo neglupyh i znayuschih lyudey, no bylo by oprometchivo delat' ih sud'yami v sobstvennom dele. Poetomu v etoy knige