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The author surveys the review of Japan's defense programs and several other key defense-related documents the Liberal Democratic government initiated in 2013. She focuses on the pivotal points of Japan's Defense White Paper and on the current state and prospects of military cooperation between the U.S. and Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the essence of the network-centric warfare concept originated by the US Department of Defense; it briefly describes its main principles and impact on armed force reforms. The authors maintain that network-centric warfare is a social phenomenon of today that is gradually upstaging other types of confrontation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes national security as a subject for interdisciplinary research and an area of teaching methodology. With a view to the scope of political sociology, it formulates proposals as to new integrated education courses for army sociological analysts and managers in the area of national security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the main trends in the development of the British Armed Forces, which is assumed to be a leading military and political ally of the United States; it focuses on the development prospects of the country's armed forces, both in the near future and in the long term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper covers issues of Russia's national security in the Arctic as viewed from the military perspective. It examines the trends in the development of a reliable defense system for this country. It postulates the importance of greater defense capacity in the Russian Arctic, as nATO relentlessly builds up its military forces next to Russian borders, and the US military infrastructure continues to develop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]