Legal Aspects of Managing Organizational Interaction in Defense and Military Security

The paper analyzes the process of interaction of various state authorities involved in state defense. In modern Russia, the National Defense Control Center has already been established. Although it coordinates the interaction between many law enforcement agencies, it itself constitutes a part of the Russian Defense Ministry and, respectively, in the hierarchy of subordination it reports to the military department. The current system of executive authorities does not allow any of these bodies to be given the authority to manage the structures of other federal executive authorities.

Based on the information about the mode of this kind of interaction, the author compares the directive and coordination models of interaction. The existing regime of information exchange between various law enforcement agencies does not mean the organization of management either from the point of view of the management theory or from the point of view of administrative law. The author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to give power over other public authorities to the executive authority (military department) that is closely related to the resolution of the issue. In order to prevent the failure of the military command system in crisis regimes, this kind of empowerment requires appropriate legal formalization. Based on historical and foreign experience, the author makes suggestions regarding an organizational structure of such a «supranational» military command body and structural links between its elements. Moreover, the creation of this authority must be carried out even in peacetime, so that its activities are carried out in any crisis regimes without significant restructuring of its elements.

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