Humanities & Social Sciences 6 (2015 8) 1215-1227 ~ ~ ~ УДК 101 Military Progress in the Global World: new Tendencies and Problems Sergey V. Maximov* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 29.11.2014, received in revised form 20.12.2014, accepted 29.01.2015 The present article analyses peculiarities of military progress manifestation in the global world. <...> He demonstrates that the nature of military progress is contradictory, as it may manifest itself as more than just technical progress. <...> The author proves that in different societies military progress depends on their historical traditions. <...> Military progress is a permanently evolving system which gains signifi cance with one set of parameters in one case, but requires a radically different one in another. <...> Moreover, military progress is expected to present an aggressive component of the social progress, as it is military progress that maximally characterizes the society’s capacity to confront any external threat. <...> Understanding of the military progress concept requires adequate assessment of its deployment along with the indicators of economic, political, spiritual, and social spheres of social life. <...> In such a case, military progress can be said to satisfy the social expectations. <...> For instance, military exhibitions are intended to demonstrate the types of armour the enemy lacks, making them feel weak in the spiritual, social, political, and economic aspects of their military progress. <...> In the author’s opinion, dialectic approach to military progress suggests several principal trends. <...> If military progress acts as a component of an aggressive process in social life, it requires a wellplanned strategy and tactics. <...> Strategy suggests a situation, in which the enemy is in permanently tense condition for a long period of time: they are forced to think for us, assuming where we might go and what our ideas might be. <...> It is important to think of what our actions should be to cause the enemy make some ill-advised, and at the same time costly steps. <...> Military progress is closely associated with potential war that takes new features in the today’s global world. <...> Global connections are made by means of the rapidly developing global communication network <...>