Western analysts believe, that "Ogarkov Doctrine", whether it is implemented in full, It would give a decisive advantage over the forces of the Warsaw Pact, NATO forces in Europe.
In September 1983 year in the airspace of the USSR Soviet interceptor will be shot down a South Korean "Boeing". All the circumstances of what happened will be known after a decade.
And then, at 1983 year, incident became an occasion for the unwinding of the anti-Soviet hysteria worldwide. The Soviet Union was accused of deliberate destruction of a passenger plane.
non-winning role
Not in favor of Moscow played a pause with a public statement of his version. Only 9 September, eight days after the death of "Boeing", Moscow held a press conference, on which the data were presented the Soviet side. To defend the Soviet Union's position was entrusted to the Chief of General Staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov.
The general public learned and remembered Nikolai Ogarkov precisely because speech. And since the Soviet version of the foreign journalists were skeptical, then to marshal immediately labeled a cheater and forger.
In the time of the collapse of the USSR, this trend picked up by the latter-day Russian liberals. Only later it will become clear, that the Soviet army had every reason to really be considered "Boeing" reconnaissance aircraft, and cinder, setting forth the position of the Soviet Union in September 1983 of the year, I meant it.
Foreign military experts, however, remember Nikolai Ogarkov not because of the story of "Boeing", and thanks to the "doctrine Ogarkova". doctrine, which, becoming known in the West, produced a shock. methods, proposed by the Soviet Chief of Staff, allowed the armed forces of the Warsaw Pact in a few days to defeat and neutralize a European grouping of NATO without the use of nuclear weapons.
Career peasant's son
Peasant's son Kolya Ogarkov was born in the Tver province in October 1917 of the year, just days before the October Revolution in Petrograd. And I do not think the boys parents, that "Aurora" shot opened the way for them to shoulder straps Marshal Nikolai.
However, before that it was still very far away. rural school, work schetovodom, raʙfak, admission to the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. AND, finally, call in 1938 by the Red Army, changed the lives of Nikolai Ogarkov.
He was enrolled in the 2nd year of the Military Engineering Academy, I graduated in 1941 year. War Military Engineer 3rd wound Ogarkov met in the construction of a fortified area in Lomza river in the position of the regimental engineer of the 1st Infantry Regiment, 17th Infantry Division.
Roads of War held a military engineer of Karelian marshes to Vienna's neighborhoods. 11 April 1945 , during the battle, Lieutenant Colonel Ogarkov, directing sapper units, He was injured and the ending of the war met in hospital.
Next was the service in peacetime, Study on operational and the Faculty of Engineering of the Military Engineering Academy, rank of Major General and then study - this time in the General Staff Military Academy.
The steps of the staircase General Ogarkov the military in 1968, made it to the post of the 1st Deputy Chief of Staff. In this position, he, in particular, I worked on the preparation of the Soviet-American agreements on strategic arms limitation.
The war of modern times
In the 1970s the Soviet leadership more often thought about, that a huge army and a permanent increase in defense spending to get the country's increasingly heavy load. Needed new ideas, which distinguish Ogarkov. In January 1977 he was appointed chief of the Soviet General Staff, A few days later he was awarded the title of "Marshal".
To put in simple words the concept Ogarkova, the Soviet military commander believed unnecessary and even pointless to further increase the number of troops and military equipment.
In his opinion, the future was for the well-trained mobile forces, ready for immediate transfer of on any direction.
Military equipment, the designs according to marshal, It should be high. Relatively speaking, one equipped with the latest tank can replace dozens of their outdated counterparts.
Give an advantage in the war, according to Ogarkov, can be high-precision non-nuclear weapons, modern communication systems, and automated command and control system.
«West-81»
AT 1981 Chief of General Staff, the ideas have been tried during the exercise "Zapad-81". These were some of the greatest scientists in the history of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact armies.
NATO countries, although closely followed the proceedings, could not fully appreciate that, what's happened. When, after the end of the "Cold War," the Soviet military materials will be available to Western experts, they will be shocked. Those weapons and methods of warfare, that the US and NATO will take at the end of XX - beginning of XXI century, successfully driven around on the Soviet maneuvers in 1981 year.
Western analysts believe, that "Ogarkov Doctrine", whether it is implemented in full, It would give a decisive advantage over the forces of the Warsaw Pact, NATO forces in Europe. In the case of NATO military confrontation awaited complete defeat in a matter of days, and without the use of nuclear forces, and turning Europe into a "radioactive ash". The concept of "limited war", which they raved at the Pentagon, Version Ogarkova looked really scary.
Uncomfortable for many
But in the Soviet Union at the Chief of Staff were many powerful enemies. The new concept threatened to deprive the defense industry a lot of money, and many generals would be out of work. Some people just were not like clever calculations Ogarkova, its automated control systems.
Strongly influenced by the position of Chief of Staff to the Politburo of the conflict in 1979 year. Marshal Ogarkov was strongly opposed to sending troops to Afghanistan, mention, chances "bogged down" in this conflict too large. Besides Ogarkova began to praise the West. A number of publications have appeared material about him as a "rising military genius". Such provocations have borne fruit.
In the autumn 1984 Nikolai Ogarkov, the demoted, appointed commander of the troops of the Western direction. In summer 1988 , 70-year-old Marshal was sent into retirement as part arranged Gorbachev "cleansing" of the Armed Forces. It was not in the rejuvenation - Soviet leader influential military feared, who opposed the dispensation of Mikhail Sergeyevich "unilateral disarmament".
In the last years of his life Ogarkov was a counselor at the Russian Defense Ministry. What he was seeing, as in the eyes of all falls apart, which he devoted himself, in the lap of gods.
Ogarkova hall next to the halls of Suvorov and Zhukov
Nikolai Ogarkov was not 23 January 1994 of the year. At the time of his death in the media it has been featured in just a few lines.
Even today, the "doctrine of Ogarkov" in the West speak and write better, than in Russia. truly, there is no prophet in his own country.
In February 2018 year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced, that the main halls of the building of the National Russian defense control center in Moscow on Frunze Embankment named after great military leaders.
On par with rooms Suvorov, Ushakova, Kutuzov, Zhukov, there is now a hall and Nikolai Ogarkov.
