Ukraine 10 клас Defence of Ukraine (profile level)
Chapters: 8
1. Foundations of national security and defence
National security and defence
- National Security: How a Country Keeps Its People Safe – National security means protecting a country's people, land, independence, democracy and economy from serious harm. Threats can be military (armed attack) or non-military (terrorism, cyber attacks, disasters, epidemics). A security system has three parts: armed forces, non-military services, and leaders who decide. Crises are handled in a cycle: prevent, prepare, respond, recover. Prepared citizens make the whole country stronger.
2. History of the Ukrainian army
Military history of Ukraine
- Military History of Ukraine: How the Army Changed Over Time – The story of Ukraine's armed forces runs through five eras: the druzhyna and people's levy of Kyivan Rus, the Cossack Host with its elected hetmans, the national army of 1917 to 1921, the founding of the modern Armed Forces in 1991, and the period since the 1996 Constitution, when defence became a clear duty of the state and the army was reformed after 2014. Each era shows how a society organises defence: who serves, who leads and by what rules.
3. Military regulations
Internal service and discipline (overview)
- Military Service Basics: Regulations, Drill, Safety and Teamwork – Armed forces work through written regulations, a clear chain of command and discipline. Soldiers follow a daily routine, share guard duty, and learn drill so a group moves as one. Weapon training starts with four safety rules and simple ballistics: gravity curves a bullet's path and it travels far beyond the target. Small teams give each member a role and use cover, concealment and camouflage.
4. Drill
Drill regulations
- Military Service Basics: Regulations, Drill, Safety and Teamwork – Armed forces work through written regulations, a clear chain of command and discipline. Soldiers follow a daily routine, share guard duty, and learn drill so a group moves as one. Weapon training starts with four safety rules and simple ballistics: gravity curves a bullet's path and it travels far beyond the target. Small teams give each member a role and use cover, concealment and camouflage.
5. Weapons training (overview)
Small arms and safety (overview)
- Military Service Basics: Regulations, Drill, Safety and Teamwork – Armed forces work through written regulations, a clear chain of command and discipline. Soldiers follow a daily routine, share guard duty, and learn drill so a group moves as one. Weapon training starts with four safety rules and simple ballistics: gravity curves a bullet's path and it travels far beyond the target. Small teams give each member a role and use cover, concealment and camouflage.
6. Tactical training (overview)
Tactics (overview)
- Military Service Basics: Regulations, Drill, Safety and Teamwork – Armed forces work through written regulations, a clear chain of command and discipline. Soldiers follow a daily routine, share guard duty, and learn drill so a group moves as one. Weapon training starts with four safety rules and simple ballistics: gravity curves a bullet's path and it travels far beyond the target. Small teams give each member a role and use cover, concealment and camouflage.
7. Military engineering and communications (overview)
Engineering and signals (overview)
- Military Service Basics: Regulations, Drill, Safety and Teamwork – Armed forces work through written regulations, a clear chain of command and discipline. Soldiers follow a daily routine, share guard duty, and learn drill so a group moves as one. Weapon training starts with four safety rules and simple ballistics: gravity curves a bullet's path and it travels far beyond the target. Small teams give each member a role and use cover, concealment and camouflage.
8. Applied physical training
Physical training
- Physical Fitness – Physical fitness is the body's ability to do daily work, play and sport with energy to spare. It has five health-related components (heart-lung endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition) and six skill-related ones (speed, agility, power, balance, coordination, reaction time). We improve it with a planned programme using FITT (frequency, intensity, time, type) and training principles like overload, progression, specificity, rest and reversibility.