Axiological foundations of military law

Armed defense of the state is a unique value that has a local positioning in the system of social values and reflects the implementation of strictly defined needs of the state, society and people in their existence. The system of values, including general social values (state, society, people) and unique values of armed defense of their existence form, predetermine, and condition all other social formations in real and legal reality – the formation of a unique community of military conflicts and a specific legal formation built on it – the law of military conflicts, which by its legal nature has the properties of both uniqueness and specificity. These properties predetermine the objective specificity of the subject and method of legal regulation of military relations, a branch of Military Law. Management processes consisting of armed confrontation links are carried out using specific means – weapons and military equipment, as well as the use of specific management methods. These two objective circumstances exclude any natural social kinship with other, “civilian”, ways and methods of implementing management activities. Due to this, Military Administrative Law cannot be included in Administrative Law due to completely different, incompatible, disparate value basis of these two systemic legal entities. The object of military conflict relations is the relations of armed confrontation. If we look even deeper, into the internal social space of armed confrontation relations, we will see its value basis – an integral system of values, which is the foundation for the formation of other social entities, hierarchically built over the value system – the integrity of military conflict relations; the integrity of the law of military conflicts; the integrity of Military Law (system and branch of law). Military values are values that do not create the conditions for ensuring military confrontation, but create the conditions of military (armed) confrontation proper; these are values based on the historical experience of protecting and implementing state, public and personal interests at a certain ideological level, reflecting the most objective methods and methods of waging war (military/armed confrontation), which together constitute the art of war. Due to the fact that military values allow the destruction of people and individuals subject to prohibitions and restrictions, they objectively require the formation of a certain, separate material and ideal environment. We are talking about the military organization of the state, or more precisely only about its key link – the armed forces, and the ideal (subjective) legal environment that formalizes the behavior of troops, determines military management activities based on military values formed historically in the process of the emergence and development of human civilization. Due to its genesis, natural dissimilarity, value opposition to the peaceful environment, the systemic social formation – the relations of military conflicts, and their superstructure legal mediation – the law of military conflicts, objectively cannot be part of social systems (spheres of social reality) that are unified with the peaceful environment. They represent independent, sovereign social systemic entities, on the basis of which an independent holistic entity is formed in the legal matter – a branch of Military Law in the Russian legal system, the core of which is the law of military conflicts.