Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article based on factual historical data identifies and analyzes the characteristics of modern wars and armed conflicts. It is shown that in different periods the concept of "war" has been interpreted by politicians and military experts on-to a miscellaneous. However, regardless of its determination to warfare took huge human, financial and other resources, and their amounts increased steadily up to the present day. The specificity of modern war is that to achieve aggressive goals do not have to use weapons and military equipment – ensure the defense and national security is possible using non-military warfare, applying, in particular, financial and economic methods of warfare. Thus the subordination of their interests foreign territories, their capture and looting can implement new supranational global patterns that have emerged in the process of Informatization of society on the basis of network principles of world order

In the article we have developed a methodology to assess the effectiveness of various types of military and economic activities, the effectiveness of which determines the value of the defense capabilities of the state; we have also revealed the economic substance of defense capabilities and combat readiness of troops, justified approaches to determining the significance of ongoing military-oriented activities, identified main activities of the specific conditions of defense industries which leave their marks on the cost-effectiveness in the production of material resources for the Russian military service. The analysis of the flow direction of monetary environment of estimated units indicates that the current practice of planning and cost accounting is not fully adapted for military-economic analysis of measures to ensure the establishment of the defense capabilities of the state, and this makes it difficult to study and make recommendations to improve the efficiency of the use of military and economic resources. The authors propose a unified system of methodological support planning, estimating the size of consumed resources (regardless of funding source) and attainable defense results. Methodical resolution of this problem is based on the use of program-target approach to modeling the processes of the defense-industrial complex and the structural elements of the military organization. The article substantiates that the evaluation of the effectiveness of the use of defense capabilities should be carried out not only by the criterion of "cost - effect", but with all the manifestations of the time factor. In the most general form of the criterion of effectiveness should be provided by the triad "cost - effect - time." An important result of this study is also in the development of the integral index of evaluating the effectiveness of the use of military and economic