Spetsnaz GRU: "new look" or ...

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Spetsnaz GRU: "new look" or ...The topic of reforming military intelligence and special forces in the context of “bringing the Armed Forces to a new look” is perhaps one of the most discussed on the Internet. Opinions are different, but mostly critical. It seems that this is largely due to the objective lack of reliable information. The GRU, by definition, should not dedicate the general public to its plans. Nevertheless, in accordance with the spirit of the time, wide informational possibilities, the discussion continues, and this, in my opinion, is very good.
I would like to share my thoughts about the fate of the army special forces.

Several years ago, in Qatar, Russian intelligence officers blew up a car in which one of the leaders of the Chechen separatists was Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. Blow up something blew up, but just got themselves caught. First time in stories Russian state and in the practice of world intelligence services, the head of the Foreign Ministry of Russia was forced to publicly admit this fact. A blow to the reputation of the country and its intelligence services!

In 2006, five Russian diplomats were abducted and killed in Iraq. President Putin, in full accordance with the law "On Countering Terrorism," ordered the destruction of the murderers from the "Council of Mujahideen Shuras." More than three years have passed since then, but no concrete results of the implementation of this order have been heard so far. The Israeli secret service operation “The Sword of Gideon” is involuntarily recalled when, in the course of several years, all participants in the murder of eleven Israeli athletes were found and killed at the Olympics in Munich in 1972.

There are persistent rumors that super-secret units of the Russian special forces are conducting secret special operations in different parts of the world. Here is what Gennady Petrovich Sizikov, one of the most authoritative naval intelligence experts, captain of the 1 rank of the reserve, said in an interview with Brothers: “... I can say that in peacetime such units (special forces of the Navy) do not conduct reconnaissance and sabotage. For the military leadership, it is more important to have reliable information about the enemy, which is received by traditional legal and illegal intelligence, and not divers-saboteurs. ”

I believe that the Russian special forces do have much more important tasks than laying the notorious "portable nuclear warheads" somewhere in foreign countries. One of these tasks is the reorganization of the management system. The fact that such a reform is long overdue, says a lot, alas, the sad facts.
Creating the example of all the leading powers of the Russian special operations forces is a very acute problem. However, the inability or unwillingness to modernize the special forces units of the Armed Forces in accordance with the requirements of the time can be traced. The decision to create Russian MTRs in the framework of “bringing the Armed Forces to a new look” was nevertheless taken by the country's leadership, only the first steps towards its implementation, namely the elimination of several separate special forces brigades, cause, to put it mildly, surprise. In fact, the army special forces were left alone with the reformers. We are already talking about the possible reassignment of individual SPN brigades to the command of the ground forces.

There is an opinion that the units of army special forces for their intended purpose, that is, as an operational intelligence tool, in their current state in the projected scenarios of armed conflicts do not find proper application. At the same time, at the tactical level in parts and formations of ground forces, there is a clear failure in the provision of intelligence for combat operations.
The conflict in South Ossetia was supposed to be the high point of the army special forces. But we didn’t learn anything about reconnaissance groups operating in the Georgian rear, correcting strikes aviation and artillery on enemy air defense positions, smashing enemy control posts and communication centers. But we learned something else. The battalion convoy of one of the regiments of the 58th army, led by Commander Khrulev, was moving at random to Tskhinval, having no reliable information about the enemy, on a bypass road that the scouts had not found, but showed peacekeepers. As a result, the column is ambushed. This may be an exaggeration, but at times the situation resembled June 41st.

After all, in fact, one of the most important tasks of the army special forces is the timely supply of a proactive intelligence command to allow preventive measures to be taken, to outrun the enemy. After all, if the Georgian graduates of West Point were more professional and did not revel in the shooting of the virtually defenseless Tskhinval and concentrated their main efforts on a quick breakthrough to the Roki Tunnel and its blocking, the Russian troops would have very big problems, the solution of which would be paid for with big blood our soldiers and officers.

How, by and large, they paid for the miscalculations of command, for the weak work of intelligence agencies, soldiers and officers of the 6th company of the Pskov paratroopers in the winter of 2000. Everything should have been different! For example, like that. At the end of February 2000, reconnaissance groups of army special forces were withdrawn to key points of the Argun Gorge. They are deduced truly secretly, with fiction, as it should be in intelligence. Having carefully disguised themselves and not betraying their presence in any way, the groups, using modern means of observation, navigation, communications, monitor all the movements of the militants, and then fire artillery batteries over tens of kilometers. Even taking into account the then state and capabilities of the Russian army, there is nothing fantastic in this scenario. We are not even talking about unmanned reconnaissance aircraft equipped with thermal imagers and digital electronics, about high-precision weaponsfrom satellites about integrated control centers receiving real-time information.

What happens with us? Many decades ago, a legendary Soviet marshal said: "The Red Army is strong, but the connection will destroy it." Unfortunately, these bitter words have not lost their relevance in our days. Thanks to the media, the case of commander Lieutenant-General Khrulev on the approaches to Tskhinval had to communicate with his subordinates not through army communications, but through the satellite phone of a Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist, was widely publicized.

Needless to say, what is the significance of communications for intelligence, especially if we are talking about the creation of reconnaissance-strike complexes, where the means of reconnaissance and destruction must interact in real time? One of the officers of the 24 OBRSPNU GRU, who had been on business trips in Chechnya more than once, recalled: “I almost covered myself once! We found the militant base, pointed artillery at it, and the coordinates had to be passed through five intermediaries. Such was the connection! And of course, until these coordinates reached the artillery, they changed somewhat. And our artillery covered us. ”
Another contract soldier of the same brigade said that in real exits to perform a combat task he never took a full-time radio station due to gravity, large size, small battery capacity, and used an imported multi-scanner. A common practice is not from a good life: intelligence officers going on a business trip to the Caucasus, using sponsors' money, or even collecting money, buy communications equipment, GPS receivers, night-time binoculars, and often much more prosaic things - unloading, sleeping bags, gas burners, products .

The ancient Chinese saying is well known: "God forbid you live in an era of change." Changes, reforms, bringing to a new look, optimizing the number - as you like. But the fact is that reforms, with all their pain, are a necessary and regular thing, without them there is no development. Let us hope and believe that the legendary army special forces will survive this difficult stage with its glory history.
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  1. Farvil
    -2
    18 November 2010 22: 44
    Yes, the modern army is unnecessary for this power. Some corrupt creatures.
  2. Semen
    Semen
    +2
    19 November 2010 07: 06
    How do I say that? so as not to offend "anyone" ... The cowardly "top" is afraid of the Strong - Heroes and tries to get rid of them first of all. Khrushchev got rid of Zhukov, Yeltsin reduced the most combat-ready group of Pennants, Specialists in their field. today, under the guise of reforms, they are destroying the GRU, the Airborne Forces - fighters of strong spirit and character! in their place, troops loyal to NATO will be created, they will be given a newfangled - "modernization" name - the Mossad, and that the uniform for the military is sewn by a fagot - mudashkin, in our country everything is possible!
  3. Alexander
    +2
    19 November 2010 08: 12
    We have a strange helplessness of the authorities in the fight against crime, the example of the Krasnodar Territory. But they succeed in the "reform" of the army. If everything continues like this, the state itself may collapse.
  4. 0
    3 December 2016 20: 22
    Actually, the article of 2009, and now 2016.
  5. +1
    4 December 2016 05: 26
    And what side did the article pop up? news six years ago.
  6. 0
    4 December 2016 21: 17
    Why pull out naphthalene articles? Then taxied Serdyukov. Now everything has changed for the better.
  7. 0
    26 December 2016 00: 07
    First you need to understand the difference between the units of special forces and various intelligence, and then carry nonsense with a smart look. And then we have everything that is not in the general system, all special forces.

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