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Soviet Union [USSR] Main Military Council
The Main Military Council was made up of the top leadership of
the Ministry of Defense. The minister of defense was its chairman.
The three first deputy ministers of defense, the eleven deputy
ministers of defense, and the chief of the Main Political
Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy were members of the Main
Military Council.
In peacetime the Main Military Council has been responsible for
the training, readiness status, and mobilization of the armed
forces. It coordinated the activities of the five armed services
and resolved interservice disputes over the allocation of roles and
missions, material resources, and manpower. The Main Military
Council also presented the Defense Council with the economic and
budgetary requirements of the armed forces, based on the force
structure proposed by the General Staff and the armed services.
In wartime the Main Military Council would become the
headquarters (stavka) of the Supreme High Command
(Verkhovnoe glavnokomandovanie--VGK) of the armed forces. The Main
Military Council would then report through the minister of defense
to the supreme commander in chief and the Defense Council. The
Supreme High Command would control military operations through the
General Staff and subordinate commands.
Data as of May 1989
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