摘要:The important for the military and the society problems of manning of the RF Armed Forces are very
complex as concerns the methods to be employed in order to assess them. Experts of military scientific organizations
and staffs are engaged in the research of reasoned solutions in this sphere13. As concerns an
evaluation of the factors being of importance for the society with respect to these problems, there are used
somewhat different approaches, among them those employed by the IET researchers. In the international
practice, there is widely used an approach developed by the United Nations Organization, which comprises a
simple rule: when comparing military capabilities of states differing by recruitment systems, there is counted
the total number of contracted servicepersons, whereas from the total number of conscripted servicepersons
there is deducted the number of those, who served less than 6 months. Due to this reasoning, it is an accepted
method to analyze not only the strength of the military as per its table of organization (TO) and its actual
strength (AS) as concerns the enlisted servicepersons and junior command personnel (ESJCP), but also the
so called registered strength (RS), which is calculated without taking into account the conscripts, who served
less than 6 months by the time such a calculation is carried out.