Justification of the Overall Indicator for the Estimation of Effectiveness of Training of a Separate Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Abstract

Based on the results of the analysis of command and staff training of the territorial defence units and scientific research conducted to determine approaches to the estimation of the effectiveness of military units training, a set of indicators required to estimate the effectiveness of training of territorial defence units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been suggested. The achievement of the designated combat capabilities has been defined as an overall indicator for the effectiveness estimation. This indicator depends on the readiness to perform tasks of such components as personnel management, organizational core and units of the territorial defence brigade. Being a measuring tool the indicator should reflect the level of the item’s specific property display. The definition of the well-grounded indicators required to estimate the separate territorial defence brigade training effectiveness is of great theoretical and practical importance. Justification of the criterion and a set of indicators required to estimate the effectiveness of training of a separate territorial defence brigade is a challenging task. In practical terms, a set of indicators required to estimate the effectiveness of training of a separate territorial defence brigade is a result of activities of the relevant social and technical systems (territorial defence structures and agencies) established to perform missions. Estimation of the effectiveness of training of a separate territorial defence brigade requires application of complex indicators which can generalise a certain amount of information and at the same time maintain the objectivity of estimation. In some cases, in particular, when dealing with new tasks, this may require synthesis (a combination of earlier identified concepts and goals), the formulation of new indicators and algorithms for their calculation. Based on the results of the analysis of command and staff training of territorial defence units and scientific research conducted to determine approaches to the estimation of the effectiveness of military units training, a set of indicators required to estimate the effectiveness of training of territorial defence units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been suggested. The achievement of the designated combat capabilities has been defined as an overall indicator for the effectiveness estimation. This indicator depends on the readiness to perform tasks of such components as personnel management, organizational core and units of the territorial defence brigade and can be used to develop a partial methodology for the estimation of effectiveness of training the territorial defence brigade organizational core.

Military-Economic Aspects of Maintaining the State's Defence Capability in the Current Military and Strategic Situation

“…Sakovskyi (2020) uses methods to justify the division of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into units of permanent readiness and those subject to mobilisation, which allow optimising such a division depending on the selected criteria, namely, the time constraints for bringing units into combat readiness and the financial resources allocated for this purpose. Heorhadze and Kharabara (2020) outline a methodological approach to assessing the level of training of the state DF. Hodz (2023) outlines the methodological foundations for the formation of Comprehensive Combat Training Programmes for the units of the state's DF.…”