What meanings of being, system of values and morality can confront Russia today and tomorrow as the basis of a future war? The article provides a brief analysis of geopolitical projects for superethnoses, forming the basis of leading contemporary civilizations.

Ideological and theoretical justification of violence and its extreme form — the war — has a solid philosophical and political base. Nevertheless, this question becomes especially acute nowadays. Not least due to the fact that a substantial segment of the confrontation is shifting into the sphere of ideological and political warfare — war of meanings aimed at suppressing the enemy’s will to resist. Wars of the so-called fourth generation are asymmetric and hybrid ones, wars of “everybody against everyone”, in conditions of losing monopoly on violence by state institutions and increasing the power of non-state and mixed (public-private) paramilitary systems will require re-interpretation of the concepts of justice and war sacredness.

The article analyzes metaphysical aspects of violence on the basis of three theses. 1. Metaphysics of violence. Violence in today’s world acts as an end in itself and its volumes grow towards the apocalypse. 2. Physics of violence. Violence is used by the state and its institutions as a means of positivity. 3. Wisdom of violence. Philosophy of economy and Russian sophianic philosophy are seeking the ways of transforming violence into meaningful, educational, training, cultural forms of human behavior determination, into the social structures of justice.

The main challenge is the lack of specialists with core competencies in the development of new types of weapons.

The article deals with modern military conflicts, as well as characteristics and peculiar features of strategic offensive culture. This culture always presupposes the existence of struggle elite, a single civil-military corporation capable of spiritual strategic goal setting and as a result — relying on the unity of the state and non-state national security systems, on a single complex — “total forces” — which combines public and private forces ensuring security policy, NPOs that directly interact with them, political parties and movements, religious institutions, mass media and business structures. Public-private paramilitary units of a new type, meeting the requirements of conducting asymmetric and hybrid wars, gradually become the core of this complex.

The author examines the concept of “hybrid warfare”, compares definitions of this notion, given by different foreign researchers. He analyzes the methods of hybrid wars waging that correlate with certain armed conflicts that took place in the XIX-XX centuries.

Exactly information wars are at the heart of the hybrid war.

The article deals with approaches to disclosure of the nature and the causes of the armed conflict in Chechnya, existing in modern historiography. The paper considers versions interpreting the circumstances that caused forceful intervention of the federal forces in the Chechen conflict on the side of anti-Dudayev opposition. It also highlights the causes versions and underlying reasons of beginning the counter-terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic.

Victor M. Zavarzin – a fighting general, under whose leadership the Russian peacekeeping battalion occupied Slatina airport in Kosovo when NATO countries were bombing the former Yugoslavia. For many years he headed the State Duma Committee on Defense. Recent events demonstrate that we need to strengthen our army and navy potential. It serves to ensure the defense capability and security of the state. In the interview to the parliamentary columnist of the “ES” magazine Valentina Nikolskaya colonel-general Viktor M. Zavarzin, chairman of the State Duma Commission on Parliamentary Ethics, member of the Committee on Defense told about the state defense order status, import substitution under the current circumstances..

The article deals with topical issues of state control associated to the position of the polity in relation to the human resource capacity of society. The author gives an overview of facts that characterizes the condition of the human resources potential in Russia for the past decades. According to the author, today human resources of any society becomes the most important value and the most important factor in its development, preservation of the integrity and sovereignty of the state, economic including. It is noted, that not enough has been done in Russia over the years to treat a professional person as the heritage of society, of the state, of the organization. The author draws attention to the fact that the potential of human resource strategy has not fully comprehended in public administration yet. The need is stressed to employ of a holistic scientific approach to reproduction and demand for human resource capacity what will provide personnel security of the society and the state in terms of personnel globalization.