Development of armed forces
tasks on ensuring the security, territorial integrity
of the country, inviolability of its borders, protection
of peaceful and tranquil life of citizens.
Today Uzbekistan’s army has incorporated the
best practices of world military development
and arts, preserving our historical and national
traditions, it has become a reliable guarantor of
security of our borders.
Organizational structure. A fundamentally new
organizational structure has been introduced
in the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and their
main combat units, which allowed them to radically rebuild the system of army management,
increase their mobility, efficiency and firing
capabilities. And most importantly, this enabled
to ensure the independence and responsibility of
commanders at all levels.
In key operational areas there are Special Operation
Forces. A special system of training and equipping
with modern types of weapons, make them a
powerful tool that can rebuff any aggressive aspirations of the potential enemy.
River Military Forces of Uzbekistan has the tasks of
fight against drug trafficking and Islamic fundamentalism and preventing them from penetrating into
the Central Asia region from Afghanistan.
Decisive Force. At the present stage, special attention is given to the further development of the
unified multi-level system of training noncommissioned officers, providing for comprehensive update
in training programs in accordance with the new
modern requirements.
Conscription service. Thanks to shortening of military service to one year, and once-in-a-year conscription, significant increase in the proportion of contracted NCO personnel, and introduction of mobilization
conscription service have drastically changed the
face, essence, content and combat capabilities of the
Uzbek army and moods in military units.
Looking back a quarter century hard way of the
development of Uzbek Armed Forces, there all
grounds to say that due to implementation of the
timely accepted and deeply thought-out reform program, today Uzbekistan has a professionally trained,
well-equipped army, dedicated to the country and
people, able to deal effectively with a wide range of
World rating. In “Global Firepower Index 2014” the
Armed Forces of Uzbekistan along with Finland
has been rated as 48th out of 106 countries. Among
the post-soviet countries, the Armed Forces of
Uzbekistan take third place after the military
power of Russia and Ukraine.
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