Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of the Yemeni pro-iranian rebel group “Ansar Allah” (also called the Houthis) in the context of the maritime navigation crisis through the Red Sea that emerged at the end of 2023, which continues to this day. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the activities of the Houthi group to effectively block most of the maritime traffic through the Red Sea have already caused significant economic damage, and the very safety of maritime navigation along the shortest route from Asia to Europe has actually been called into question. The object of the study is the Yemeni movement “Ansar Allah” (Yemen Houthis movement). The subject of the study is the activities and influence of the Houthi group on the international economy and the safety of maritime navigation through the Red Sea. The research methodology is based on general scientific research methods (content analysis, classification), as well as on special historical methods (narrative, historical-genetic). The scientific novelty of the article lies in a detailed analysis of the events of the crisis in the Red Sea, which began at the end of 2023 and is currently ongoing. The authors' particular contribution to the study is description of the activities of the Houthi movement in the Red Sea in the period from December 2023 to January 2024. Separately, the authors analyze the degree of influence of the crisis on Russia and possible ways to overcome it. In conclusion, the authors conclude that Iran, with the help of its proxy forces, was actually able to block an important sea route for international trade, as well as cause serious economic damage to Western countries and Israel. And the consequences of such damage could ultimately affect the rest of the world.

Keywords: Suez Canal, international economics, maritime piracy, proxy forces, terrorism, maritime shipping, Red Sea, Houthis, Ansar Allah, Yemen

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the use of commercial quadcopters in modern military conflicts. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that the experience of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine, as well as other military conflicts, has demonstrated to the whole world that even such a seemingly harmless tool as a quadcopter can become a formidable military force used in battle. The object of the study is commercial (also called “civilian”) quadcopters (drones). The subject of the study is the use of commercial quadcopters (drones) in modern military conflicts around the world. The author has studied in detail the process of development of commercial quadcopters (drones) as military instruments, and determined the role of quadcopters in modern military conflicts. Also, the author describes in detail the areas of application of civilian quadcopters in military conflicts. The research methodology is based on general scientific methods (content analysis method), as well as on special historical methods (narrative and historical-genetic). The scientific novelty of the article lies in a detailed study of the use of civilian quadcopters in modern military conflicts, namely: in a special military operation (SVO) on the territory of Ukraine, in military clashes between the Sudanese rapid reaction forces and the Sudanese armed forces, which began in April 2023, as well as in the Arab-Israeli conflict escalated again in October 2023. The author’s special contribution to the study of the topic is a detailed description of the use of civilian quadcopters in all of the above conflicts. The work also contains a large corpus of photographic materials on the use of quadcopters in military conflicts. Based on the study, we can conclude that the role of civilian quadcopters in modern military conflicts has significantly increased.

Keywords: civil quadcopters, FPV drones, kamikaze drones, drop drones, military drones, commercial drones, UAVs, drones, Quadcopters, modern military conflicts

Abstract: The subject of the study is the impact on the enemy during armed conflicts of varying intensity, the object of the study is the features of the so-called "non-lethal" weapons used in this process. The author has studied in detail the process of influencing enemy objects during the conduct of military operations with the use of non-lethal weapons, analyzed the features of its use in local wars and armed conflicts. The relevance of the study is determined by the appearance in leading foreign countries of updated conceptual and combat documents defining the principles and conditions for the use of non-lethal weapons. When writing a review article, general scientific research methods – analysis and synthesis - were used. Based on the analysis of the features of the use of non-lethal weapons during local wars and armed conflicts of recent times, the particular consequences of its use are analyzed. Based on the results of the analysis, the author concludes that the purpose of using such weapons is not the humanization of conflicts stated in a number of conceptual documents, but to increase the effectiveness of defeating the enemy in difficult conditions of modern warfare. Thus, it is determined that the increasing role of non-lethal weapons in modern operations is determined by its physical properties, which make it possible to solve the tasks of defeating enemy objects and defending their objects in difficult background-target conditions characteristic of modern local wars and armed conflicts

Keywords: non-lethal lesion concept, consequences of non-lethal impact, laser weapon, electromagnetic weapons, acoustic weapons, non-lethal chemical weapons, police non-lethal weapon, military non-lethal weapon, armed conflict, non-lethal weapon

Abstract: This article reveals the key regularities in establishment of the modern French navy. First and foremost, the author indicates the provisions of the doctrine of Gaullism, which served as an ideological and political foundation for the foreign and military policy of France during the first decades after the World War II that remained relevant furthermore. Based on them, the work determines the peculiarities of French naval construction since the presidency of Charles de Gaulle until the end of the “cold war”, following with the amendments introduced into the naval policy of France in realities of the post-bipolar world. The utmost research accent is made on the tasks faced throughout various timeframes by the naval forces, as well as means and methods for their solution. In conclusion, the author specifies the general trends that characterize the French navy over a span of recent decades, which most likely will be observed during the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Particularly, the author underlines the focus on the naval component of nuclear deterrence, multifunctionality of the newest sea vehicles, collaboration with the European Union and NATO partners in establishment of the naval forces and their deployment.

Keywords: White Book, Military expenditure, Naval policy, Strategic submarines , Nuclear deterrence, Force projection, Sea power, Military doctrine, Gaullism, France

Abstract: The subject of this study are non-military means and non-military measures neutralizing military threats. The object of this study is to ensure national security of the Russian Federation. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic, as a form of geopolitical confrontation in modern conditions; maintenance facilities and measures used in the system of military security; assessment of productivity of implementation of measures aimed at neutralizing the military threats; stages of application of the non-military measures for neutralizing the military threats; peculiarities of the single and combined implementation of means and measures for neutralizing the military threats. Methodology of this research leans on the system approach and integrates the methods of military strategy, political science, conflict studies, historiography and source. The main conclusions of the study consist in reasonable positions that only the combined use of non-military means with measures for neutralizing military threats provides the military security with flexibility and resource validity, expands the circle of its actors, implement the concept of the earliest possible diagnostics of the conditions of the military threats occurrence, as well as take preemptive action before they transform into the military threats.

Keywords: system of military security, geopolitical confrontation, military threat, military-political situation, non-military measures neutralizing, non-military means of neutralizing, military security, neutralization of military threats, national security, military danger

Abstract: This paper analyzes the approaches of a number of countries towards maintaining their military-industrial base that is capable of supporting their national security, as well as a range of maneuvers available to them within the political continuum in the context of globalization. Available empirical evidence shows that globalization has transformed the structure of incentives for small and medium-sized countries. Despite the fact that the countries such as Sweden, South Africa, and Israel have a high level of defense-industrial autonomy, and were forced to make significant reforms in order to preserve the military-industrial complexes in the context of globalization. Considering Russia's initiatives in building the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union, the issues of integration, the specialization and distribution of labor between the two countries, especially in the sphere of military-industrial industry, seem particularly relevant. The author concludes that small countries can restructure their defense agencies to increase their contribution into national security and successfully compete in the global arms market. It is obvious that the government has a number of options to achieve this goal, including various combinations of exports and foreign direct investments. Alternative ways to support countries own defense industry suggests that the military-industrial globalization, in terms of the international system will not lead to the disappearance of the national defense industry, and will not strengthen the larger nations at the expense of smaller ones. Competent and patriotically-minded leaders have all the conditions and institutional mechanisms to be able to raise the level of the national security system in their countries, while maintaining strategic internal capabilities and increasing export of defense components and systems.  

Keywords: technology transfer, military-industrial complex, military-technical cooperation, defense markets, armaments, national security, defense industrial policy, globalization, regional security, international security

Abstract: The ar ticle includes analysis of perspective systems and means of radio electronic fight of opponents against the satellite communications systems. The analysis of the foreign concepts of fighting for dominance in the information sphere and in the space, as well as the views of the role and place of radio electronic means against the satellite communications systems shows that in the situation of military activities both space and ground levels of the satellite communications system may be subject to the electronic countermeasures.

Keywords: warfare, opponent, connection, suppression, satellite, jam, orb, network, system, transmitter.

Abstract: The goal of this publication is to fi nd out and describe the role and place of nuclear containment in the system of guarantees of military security in Russia. The object for the studies is military security as a special condition of state and inter-state relations, and the matter is nuclear containment and its implementation as one of the instruments for guaranteeing military security. The key methods of this study are induction and comparison. The key result is motivated demonstration of nuclear containment as one of the forceful means for the guarantees of military security of the Russian Federation. The results of the study may be used in order to develop the means for the strategic stability and strategic partnership in the matters of collective and addressed military security, as well as for the scientifi c and teaching purposes at the higher schools which specialize in state security. The key conclusion is that there is no alternative to nuclear containment in the guarantees of security of Russia at the short-term and medium-term perspectives.

Keywords: military, strategic stability, nuclear containment, anti-missile defense, strategic nuclear forces, prevention of aggression, threats to statehood, ballistic missiles, nuclear arms, outer threats.

Abstract: This article presents the results of the study the use of technologies of management of international confl ict in peacekeeping and antiterrorist operations of U.S. and NATO. The basic features of the practices that distinguish the individual style of peacemaking of U.S. and NATO representatives of other civilizations and cultures.

Keywords: psychology, national security, international relations, counteraction, ability to defend, foreign policy, international confl icts, confl ict management, information technologies, peace-making operations.

Abstract: This article provides an analysis of the circumstances of the death of the leader of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and comparing these circumstances with the operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden. In the context of the situation in the Arab Middle East and North Africa justifi ed the assumption of non-randomness of both events and their close associative connection, put forward a version of the existence in both scenarios, the same individual handwriting performers.

Keywords: Libya, Gaddafi, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, international relations, international confl ict, the color revolution, national security, technology, confl ict management, psychological operation.

Abstract: This article includes results of the comparative analysis of various formats of application of the technologies of outer management of the international confl icts and formats of holding peace-making operation (forcing to peace, support of peace, in the goals of peace, in the interests of the post-confl ict peace-formation). The author shows how adaptation of modern technologies of the confl ict management applies to the format of the peace-making operations.

Keywords: political science, national security, international relations, confl ict, ability to defend, foreign policy, international confl icts, confl ict management, information technology, diplomacy.

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the possible causes of a color revolution in Syria and the related foreign policy interests of Western countries.

Keywords: Syria, Assad, international relations, international confl ict, the color revolution, national security, technology, confl ict management, psychological operation.

Abstract: The article contains a brief summary of the present condition of information security in our society. The author formed the most topical scientific problems in this sphere. According to the author, solutions of those problems would reduce the risk of information vandalism, crime and terrorism. The author suggested a number of approaches to solving the problem of information security.

Keywords: information vandalism, crime, terrorism, threats, society, prevention, problems, models, methods, tools

Abstract: This article is devoted to the legal basis of organization of activities of the Armed Forces of the USA. The authors view the issues of regulation of inner crises in the USA, as enshrined in the Codes of the Armed Forces of US. Keywords: jurisprudence, Armed Forces of the US, inner crises, principles of activity of the Armed Forces, activities of the Armed Forces, security, National guards of the US, use of arms, use of physical force